Need to Find a Budget £500 Gaming Pc

sheetzakebab · Apr 13, 2014

For my Christmas I am being asked to find a gaming pc with a budget of £500 I need help on choosing what i want as I am not too sure on what i need to get

sheetzakebab · Apr 13, 2014

I also need one with good specs so i can run games such as arma3 on high or normal settings if possible

Dark Lord of Tech · Apr 13, 2014

Here's a high quality budget system.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor (£77.99 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£53.95 @ CCL Computers)
Memory: G.Skill Ares Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£59.61 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£42.98 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Asus Radeon R9 270X 2GB Video Card (£157.99 @ Novatech)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case (£45.90 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£46.98 @ Aria PC)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£11.72 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £497.12
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-04-14 00:22 BST+0100)

sora · Apr 14, 2014

Here's a high quality budget system.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor (£77.99 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£53.95 @ CCL Computers)
Memory: G.Skill Ares Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£59.61 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£42.98 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Asus Radeon R9 270X 2GB Video Card (£157.99 @ Novatech)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case (£45.90 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£46.98 @ Aria PC)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£11.72 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £497.12
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-04-14 00:22 BST+0100)

+1, depending on your monitor it may run ARMA3 on the highest settings possible.

Do you need an OS OP?

sheetzakebab · Apr 14, 2014

thanks but do you know what game such as arma 3 the settings it can be played on so i have an idea

sheetzakebab · Apr 14, 2014

thanks but do you know what game such as arma 3 the settings it can be played on so i have an idea and could you list some monitors that i could use along with these great specs

Vic 40 · Apr 14, 2014

Adjusted the build to get a motherboard in that imo would be better for overclocking and to get a gtx 760 in,

PCPartPicker part list

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor (£76.79 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Asus M5A97 R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£61.99 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston Beast 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2400 Memory (£45.95 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£40.09 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 760 2GB Video Card (£169.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Zalman Z11 ATX Mid Tower Case (£44.45 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£46.98 @ Aria PC)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£11.72 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £497.96
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-04-14 17:03 BST+0100)

What do you want to spend on a monitor?

sheetzakebab · Apr 14, 2014

for my monitor i would spend up to £120

Dark Lord of Tech · Apr 14, 2014

That motherboard and cpu combo won't run 2400 ram.

sheetzakebab · Apr 15, 2014

what do you mean

Vic 40 · Apr 15, 2014

I looked at the compatibility list and 2400mhz ram is on there,and even if it wasn't would it fall back to it's spd speed of 1600mhz.It will probably do that anyway,the ts has then to set the speed manually right via the bios or leave it that way.

sheetzakebab · Apr 15, 2014

so what would you say would be good pc to get if i wanted to run most game son high lets make the budget £600 the game such as Arma3 or games that are full of graphics.

sheetzakebab · Apr 15, 2014

heres a list i put together would this be suitable
CPU- AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition FX-8320
Motherboard: Asus M5A97 R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard
Memory: Kingston Beast 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2400 Memory
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 760 2GB Video Card
Case: Zalman Z11 ATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer

sheetzakebab · Apr 15, 2014

what about a fan wont i eed it to keep my parts from overheating

Vic 40 · Apr 16, 2014

sheetzakebab :

Yes it would be.If you can get the seasoinc S12II 620watt for about the same price get that one if you're going to overclock,just to be more on the safe side.

For a fan,do you mean a cpu cooler because in that case are already four fans placed.
For a good cpu cooler is the cooler master hyper 212 evo a nice option for not to much or the zalman cnps 10 performa/optima or the xigmatek gaia,something like that.

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