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bradwitt

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Hi all,

I have a budget of around £600 (Negotiable if necessary) and am intrigued by the news of Steam Machines to look at building my own.

I have no idea what I'm doing so was looking to get some advice on what you guys/girls would build with my budget.

This machine would be my complete media PC, covering simple word processers right through to gaming.

Thanks,
 
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Mate in that build i put you back there i got u a GTX 770 in it, so i had to put an FX 6300, now its an AMD processor and its the best bang for the buck of its class, it will allow u to still have ultra settings at most if not all games since the GTX 770 will do the job, now if u prefer an intel u can get the GTX 760 instead and get an i5 4430.....not advised since the Video card does the heavy lifting on gaming but again if u want to get a better processor the GTX 760 is still a pretty good card and u can do that trade. The build i made u takes into account u using teh Steam OS , thus not needing 100pounds for windows :)
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Portuguesetechie

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Well a couple of questions:
-Got any preference of the size? U got mini-itx cases, mid tower cases full tower cases (respectivelly bigger and bigger)
-Got any preference on processors being intel or AMD? Same goes for GPU's, got any preference on AMD or Nvidea?
-Do u have keyboard, mouse and monitor? (Wont ask about OS because if u want a Steam machine i reckon u will be using STEAM OS am i right?)
-When u say media pc do u mean u are going to edit videos or just watch them? What kind of gaming? Some examples??
 
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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor (£80.39 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-990XA-UD3 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£80.77 @ Dabs)
Memory: Kingston 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£59.98 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£60.00 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 270X 2GB Video Card (£153.98 @ Dabs)
Case: Antec One ATX Mid Tower Case (£44.99 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£47.12 @ CCL Computers)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£11.98 @ Ebuyer)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£72.59 @ Ebuyer)
Total: £611.80
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-01-17 20:24 GMT+0000)

My recommendation. Get's you pretty good performance across the board, and will be able to do High/Ultra settings in everything out right now :)

Also, let me know if you don't need Windows, can make this even better lol
 
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bradwitt

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Thanks for the prompt reply!

Size isn't too important, I do prefer smaller, but not at the expense of performance.
Processeor pref would 100% be Intel, unless there would be good reason not to.
Graphics/Video cards are a mystery to me, so I'm not sure.
Keyboard/Mouse/LED TV/Will have a gamepad eventually. OS and Windows. Not worried about including Windows OS into the price, I'll think about that separately.
Watching, not editing, though I'd like the basis of a machine that could handle both.
Gaming such as, FIFA(Future versions) and then primarily online games such as Runescape(not a problem) and other, more advanced MMO's

Thanks,


 
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Portuguesetechie

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Mate in that build i put you back there i got u a GTX 770 in it, so i had to put an FX 6300, now its an AMD processor and its the best bang for the buck of its class, it will allow u to still have ultra settings at most if not all games since the GTX 770 will do the job, now if u prefer an intel u can get the GTX 760 instead and get an i5 4430.....not advised since the Video card does the heavy lifting on gaming but again if u want to get a better processor the GTX 760 is still a pretty good card and u can do that trade. The build i made u takes into account u using teh Steam OS , thus not needing 100pounds for windows :)
 
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bradwitt

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Thanks very much.

Helps with my understanding too, I put a lot of weight on the processor and much less on the graphics card, but it makes sense what you're saying I may just up the budget and aim for best of both worlds....
 
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Well here's you with an i5 and a 770:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4440 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor (£129.87 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: MSI H87M-G43 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£63.41 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£59.98 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£42.00 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 770 2GB Video Card (£239.90 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Zalman ZM-T1 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£29.59 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£47.12 @ CCL Computers)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£11.98 @ Ebuyer)
Total: £623.85
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-01-17 20:41 GMT+0000)

slightly over budget, but the 20 pounds definitely worth it.
 
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bradwitt

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Really appreciated mate, thanks very much. I like that with the Intel processor in there, I'd probably even be willing to push it up to 700 budget to put some extra shine on parts of that build.

Thanks again,

 
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