UK £350'ISH gameing start up pc's

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So you live in the uk and you are looking to make a pc on the cheap?

Here is a Haswell (intel) pc and a AMD pc that is capable of playing games @ 1080p there not going to be kickass pc's but thay are a good starting point to get you off that xbox 360/ps3!

Feel free to add your own £350'ish build ideas in here and maybe it will help someone!

Haswell pc build.

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/1Aymo

CPU: Intel Pentium G3220 3.0GHz Dual-Core Processor (£47.87 @ Scan.co.uk)

Motherboard: ASRock H87 Pro4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£67.90 @ Dabs)

Memory: A-Data XPG Gaming Series v2.0 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£41.40 @ Amazon UK)

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£46.99 @ CCL Computers)

Video Card: MSI Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition 1GB Video Card (£74.99 @ Aria PC)

Case: Zalman Z5 Plus ATX Mid Tower Case (£38.99 @ Novatech)

Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 450W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (£38.38 @ Aria PC)

Total: £356.52

AMD pc build.

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/1AypI

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£69.99 @ Maplin Electronics)

Motherboard: Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 Micro ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£49.99 @ Amazon UK)

Memory: A-Data XPG Gaming Series v2.0 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£41.40 @ Amazon UK)

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£46.99 @ CCL Computers)

Video Card: MSI Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition 1GB Video Card (£74.99 @ Aria PC)

Case: Zalman Z5 Plus ATX Mid Tower Case (£38.99 @ Novatech)

Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 450W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (£38.38 @ Aria PC)

Total: £360.73

pricing rigth at 6th september 2013.

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I would rather have a PS3 then those. 

Those CPUs and the  7770 is just a bad thing to be spending money on.....at this budget with UK prices go APU till you can save up for a 7870 or 7950

  • AMD A10-5800K Black Edition 3.80GHz £93.74 
  • TeamGroup Xtreem 8GB DDR3 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit £65.99 
  • ASRock FM2A75 Pro4-M Micro ATX Motherboard £42.27 
  • Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM HDD £46.85  
  • Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £34.35 
  • Silverstone SST-PS08B Precision Midi-Tower - Black £29.99 
  • Thermalright True Spirit 90 CPU Cooler £21.98 

£335.17 (£480 with a MSI R7870-2GD5T/OC)

 

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You whont be playing @ 1080p on a apu or upgradeing it anless you buy a new mobo.

APU GPU.

HD7770 GPU

 A apu might be ok if you are still running a 17" crt kind of useless at anything else.

 

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Your systems = crap 1080 frame rates and having to upgrade the CPU and GPU to play new games

My system = good 720 frame rates till you save up the extra £80 for a 7870 (thats cheaper then a new card and CPU) 

Go compare 7770 vs the new 7870 Tahiti LE and you will see the 7770 is a money pit, and you're far better off saving the little extra for the 7870. 

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The APU cpu power is about the same as a Phenom II X4 965 thats a pointless point anless you start off with a £150 A106800K that is marginally better you can chuck a 7870 in with a Phenom and have a card to sell.

The intell option is there just as a leg up to get your self on a i5 upgrade path as most will like to have a intell option and is perfectly adequate to run most games as there still isent that meany games that use more than 2 cores.

So cut the "crap" your opinion is differnt so what?

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There is no crap to cut, sunshine! 

But, I would still rather have a PS3 then either of your systems.

The Phenom II is a really good CPU (I have one), we can both agree on that, my issue is sticking in a 7770 that will need to be replaced come christmas releases if you want to play the latest games at 1080p, or get better graphics then the new gen consoles (thats kinda the point of this right?). 

So, your view is spend £70+ on the 7770 that will be replace quickly (a waste of money), whereas I think by buying the APU you are only wasting £20 (difference between Phenom II and APU). 

can't we just compromise and say spend £450 and get the Phenom II and a 7850TI ?

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Shure in a ideal world we should have enuff saved and bilud the best you can but not everyone whats to do it that way a ps4 (maybe) better but its not a pc and the release line up is pretty uninspiring.

Droping £500 on a pc is the best option maybe a FX6300/FX8320 + A hd7950 (you can get one here for £185 at the moment)

 

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Peps1 that is wrong I build my friend a system with an i3 and a hd7770 and he could play all his games at 1080p just fine.  Its people like you that scare people away from computer gaming saying they should keep spending more.  The 7770 will perform better then the POS ps4 it cant even play bf4 at 1080p

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WTF? I have AMD Phenom X4 965 and Gigabyte HD 7750 OC and I play all games fine in 1080p.

I get in Battlefield 3 45+ fps on medium 1080p

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I don't doubt he could play all his games with a 7770 at 1080, but how's he doing with crysis 3, metro 2033 at high settings, and the how well do you think he will be doing with the new release after christmas at 1080 and high setting?  

the 7770 is a budget old card, far from a console killer.   

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key word there is Medium......

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I agree 100% with all that! 

Just think the 7770 is a false economy when you look at the price performance of a 7870TI's or even the 7950 after the recent price drops. 

Think there are going to be some disappointed converts from console to PC who have whacked 77xx card in there system and think they are going to be able to play all the new games on ultra at 1080p due to evangelical PC gamers over egging there FPS results in forums.   

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You sounded like those systems won't even play on Low at 1080p. I guess that's the main concern of the others. It's an entry level system dude and most current games look better on medium on PC than PS3. That's the point. It costs around the same but looks better.

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The problem is you expect more than you can get.

Well newsflash if you want to play 1080p high/ultra 60fps+ you need more money.

BUT you expect a £350 bulid to play Crysis 3 Ultra 1440p 60 fps because medium isn't enough for you.

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What are you talking about?????

I've been saying you CAN'T get a console beating PC experience for £350 in the UK....that's the premise of every one of my posts! 

Given the choice of a £350 PC or £350 of next gen console action, to me the consoles going to be the better option. 

Go reread this tread and pay attention to where I say you need to save up more for a better card than the 7770. 

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Im not fucking blind,i know what i read.''Given the choice of a £350 PC or £350 of next gen console action, to me the consoles going to be the better option. ''

That is YOUR opinion, and you don't need anything more than 7770 or 7790 to game at 1080p

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I think everyones missing the point of this thread here these pc's are entry level gameing 1080p pc's with upgrade possibilities that anyone can afford and have fun biulding.

Lets not forget a xbone is £429.00  and a ps4 is £349.00 (without a game) and considering the "next gen" cant even play all its games at 1080p (natively) these are not a far stretch from a gameing standpoint and you get so much more!

You dont have online fees the games are a hell of a lot cheaper (next gen games will be £15 more expencive than current gen games)

Its a pc! you can do work on it create anything you whant on it mod your games there is endless endless possibilities to what you can do on a pc.

This isent a thread i started to compete with next gen box's its a thread so those that whant to get there feet wet biulding a cheaper pc on a budget of £350 can.

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I sure get that and agree with you. Even on my old PC a Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 with a GTX 550ti I liked gaming more than on my PS3 or Xbox360 because it looked a lot more crisp and not pixelated. What many seem to forget is that a PC is not only a gaming system. You can do so much more on it and this gives it a lot more value than a console.