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Leanne Buckley

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Approximate Purchase Date:3 weeks

Budget Range: £500

ystem Usage from Most to Least Important: , gaming, surfing the internet, watching movies)

Are you buying a monitor: no



Parts to Upgrade: all, must include keyboard and pci wireless card, case

Do you need to buy OS: No

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: aria.co.uk

Location: uk

Parts Preferences: no preference

Overclocking: Maybe

SLI or Crossfire: Maybe

Your Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080
 
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AMD Radeon
you can start from here :)
budget gaming build
+ wifi + keyboard as requested

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor (£77.99 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Asus M5A97 R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£61.99 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2133 Memory (£55.83 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£35.99 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 270X 2GB Video Card (£146.70 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Cooler Master K380 ATX Mid Tower Case (£37.48 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: XFX...
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AMD Radeon

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you can start from here :)
budget gaming build
+ wifi + keyboard as requested

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor (£77.99 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Asus M5A97 R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£61.99 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2133 Memory (£55.83 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£35.99 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 270X 2GB Video Card (£146.70 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Cooler Master K380 ATX Mid Tower Case (£37.48 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£44.98 @ Amazon UK)
Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WDN4800 802.11a/b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter (£25.98 @ Dabs)
Keyboard: A4Tech G800V Wired Gaming Keyboard (£18.00 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £504.94
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-03-31 17:04 BST+0100)
 
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Leanne Buckley

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What games would this be likely to run?
 
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AshyCFC

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Anything you like can run on either of these systems, here's a fullset of benchmarks for the 270X/760

http://anandtech.com/bench/product/1043?vs=1038

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i3-4130 3.4GHz Dual-Core Processor (£77.99 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£32.09 @ CCL Computers)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2133 Memory (£55.83 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£35.99 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 760 2GB Video Card (£182.99 @ Ebuyer)
Case: Fractal Design Core 1000 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£28.92 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£44.98 @ Amazon UK)
Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WDN4800 802.11a/b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter (£25.98 @ Dabs)
Keyboard: Logitech K120 - UK Layout Wired Standard Keyboard (£9.99 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £494.76
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-03-31 17:37 BST+0100)

Note the keyboard I included isn't branded as a gaming keyboard and with good reason, it's a simple cheap keyboard that does a fine job in gaming/usage but doesn't have any fancy buttons.

Thought I'd post these before posting an Intel alternative build(to give you fair balance, not because I'm fanboy I run AMD fx-8320 :D)
 
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"It has a slower CPU for gaming"...It depends on what games the OP will be playing. I do agree on one thing though, even when not OCed the FX-6300 may need an aftermarket cooler to keep it under Max temp under full CPU load.
 
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Leanne Buckley

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The main reason for choosing the amd build was the the mobo option on the intel build, I had an msi mobo and it caused me so many headaches that I won't trust another one, if there was a better option mobo for my price range then I would be swayed towards the intel, also the games I would be looking to play are arma 2/dayz, arma 3, skyrim, minecraft, cod, bf3 etc etc
 
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AshyCFC

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The motherboard preference is no trouble, you can choose an AsRock or Gigabyte board and stay under £500

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i3-4130 3.4GHz Dual-Core Processor (£77.99 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock H81M-HDS Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£36.41 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2133 Memory (£55.83 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£35.99 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 760 2GB Video Card (£182.99 @ Ebuyer)
Case: Fractal Design Core 1000 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£28.92 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£44.98 @ Amazon UK)
Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WDN4800 802.11a/b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter (£25.98 @ Dabs)
Keyboard: Logitech K120 - UK Layout Wired Standard Keyboard (£9.99 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £499.08
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-03-31 21:05 BST+0100)

You can see in the earlier benchmarks that a GTX 760 is superior to the R9 270X in the games listed above(the ones which are benched) and as for the processors they're fairly similar with the i3 being generally a bit faster but the fx-6300 can be superior in some games but the GPU difference is more noticeable.
 
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Most of these games will run better on the i3.
 
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