Hey guys, Just wondering if anyone can help me. I'm new to the whole PC building and heard this was the place to be!
I've managed to talk the wife into letting me spend about £600 - £700 on a gaming PC... She likes the BitFenix Phenom Arctic White case (Mini ITX) and wont let me budge her in another direction for a case.
I'll be using it for various game titles; Elder Scrolls online, Defiance, DayZ, Battlefield 4 and anything else that catches my attention in the future :)
Can anyone help with a build?
Thank you in advance :)
BloXzZ
I'd go check out all of Logan's budget pc build videos!
I don't know if you want to be overclocking(going to assume no since ITX has mediocre cooling), so here's something to start with:
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3pfRN
Watch plenty of build videos from popular youtubers, and also watch videos on people who are building with the same case. I believe the Phenom borrows a lot from the Bitfenix Prodigy.
That is a fairly astonishingly good build for the money. I appreciate that you crammed a quad-core processor into it, as that is a requirement, in my opinion.
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3phPR
I put this together in a hurry, but its 697 and has what you want... if you get a CPU cooler, then you could overclock the CPU. Of you dont want to bother with overclocking, then maybe get a cheaper i5 and motherboard and get a faster graphics card.
The SSD I included is the bottom end of the bucket SSD, but its still way faster than a HDD and it is only 30. That is a steal for that performance and speed boost. Install windows on that drive.