Cheapest PC For CS:GO
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Joelan
June 9, 2014 4:53:11 AM
I'm currently playing a lot of counterstrike (50+ hours a week) but my current pc sucks - I would also like something more powerful for other games.
I get 25-40fps @ 720p - everything low of off - and i wanted to know what kinda budget i should save for getting a pc for CS (1080p 60fps) and what kind of specs i would need.
I also wanted to know wether source is an AMD or Nvidia friendly engine and if it is cpu or gpu heavy.
If anyone could make a pc parts picker it would be awesome.
My budget is ~£600 max with windows 7
Thanks
-Joelan
I get 25-40fps @ 720p - everything low of off - and i wanted to know what kinda budget i should save for getting a pc for CS (1080p 60fps) and what kind of specs i would need.
I also wanted to know wether source is an AMD or Nvidia friendly engine and if it is cpu or gpu heavy.
If anyone could make a pc parts picker it would be awesome.
My budget is ~£600 max with windows 7
Thanks
-Joelan
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mamamia13
June 9, 2014 5:11:31 AM
here is a good build
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks
CPU: Intel Core i3-4130 3.4GHz Dual-Core Processor (£76.79 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI B85-G41 PC Mate ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£55.67 @ CCL Computers)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£58.98 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£35.94 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 270X 2GB TWIN FROZR Video Card (£146.00 @ CCL Computers)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case (£44.95 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: Antec High Current Gamer 620W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£68.00 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHDS118-04 DVD/CD Drive (£10.78 @ Scan.co.uk)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£64.26 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £561.37
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-06-09 13:10 BST+0100)
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks
CPU: Intel Core i3-4130 3.4GHz Dual-Core Processor (£76.79 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI B85-G41 PC Mate ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£55.67 @ CCL Computers)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£58.98 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£35.94 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 270X 2GB TWIN FROZR Video Card (£146.00 @ CCL Computers)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case (£44.95 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: Antec High Current Gamer 620W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£68.00 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHDS118-04 DVD/CD Drive (£10.78 @ Scan.co.uk)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£64.26 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £561.37
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-06-09 13:10 BST+0100)
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Joelan
June 9, 2014 5:14:23 AM
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TheRealHebarb
June 9, 2014 5:22:55 AM
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Traciatim
June 9, 2014 5:25:26 AM
For CS:Go you pretty much want the highest single thread performance and a fairly good video card. The machine I put together is mostly designed so that in 2 or 3 years you could throw in a new video card and an i5 or i7 in it and extend the life of it out for a couple of more years.
I put the G3420 in there because it will be a similar price, but what I think you really want is the new Pentium G3258 with the unlocked multiplier. It should be able to run at 4Ghz fairly easily and would tear through CS:Go.
I also included an SSD, but only to enable SRT and cache the 1TB spinning disk. This will make it boot really fast and be super responsive in the things you do every day. I'm not sure of what the exchange rates and costs over there are, but I'm pretty sure this would fit inside the budget.
http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/kybhmG
I put the G3420 in there because it will be a similar price, but what I think you really want is the new Pentium G3258 with the unlocked multiplier. It should be able to run at 4Ghz fairly easily and would tear through CS:Go.
I also included an SSD, but only to enable SRT and cache the 1TB spinning disk. This will make it boot really fast and be super responsive in the things you do every day. I'm not sure of what the exchange rates and costs over there are, but I'm pretty sure this would fit inside the budget.
http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/kybhmG
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mamamia13
June 9, 2014 5:28:01 AM
Traciatim said:
For CS:Go you pretty much want the highest single thread performance and a fairly good video card. The machine I put together is mostly designed so that in 2 or 3 years you could throw in a new video card and an i5 or i7 in it and extend the life of it out for a couple of more years.I put the G3420 in there because it will be a similar price, but what I think you really want is the new Pentium G3258 with the unlocked multiplier. It should be able to run at 4Ghz fairly easily and would tear through CS:Go.
I also included an SSD, but only to enable SRT and cache the 1TB spinning disk. This will make it boot really fast and be super responsive in the things you do every day. I'm not sure of what the exchange rates and costs over there are, but I'm pretty sure this would fit inside the budget.
http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/kybhmG
You could have added in front of pcpartpicker.com uk... just like you did with ca.pcpartpicker.com. There are so many things wrong with that build. First of all, you added a cooler when it is a PENTIUM processor and will not produce that much heat at all. Stock cooler will be fine. You added a Z97 mobo when the Pentgium processor is not unlocked for OCing, you could have gone H97.EVGA PSUs are not trusted unless they are above 1000W
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Traciatim
June 9, 2014 5:55:44 AM
mamamia13 said:
Traciatim said:
For CS:Go you pretty much want the highest single thread performance and a fairly good video card. The machine I put together is mostly designed so that in 2 or 3 years you could throw in a new video card and an i5 or i7 in it and extend the life of it out for a couple of more years.I put the G3420 in there because it will be a similar price, but what I think you really want is the new Pentium G3258 with the unlocked multiplier. It should be able to run at 4Ghz fairly easily and would tear through CS:Go.
I also included an SSD, but only to enable SRT and cache the 1TB spinning disk. This will make it boot really fast and be super responsive in the things you do every day. I'm not sure of what the exchange rates and costs over there are, but I'm pretty sure this would fit inside the budget.
http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/kybhmG
You could have added in front of pcpartpicker.com uk... just like you did with ca.pcpartpicker.com
Yeah, probably. It's not like you would order the machine from 5 different places anyway and it's really the parts that matter.
I like how we went with two different designs, more for current performance in your build and mine more for expandability later. At least it gets some good options available.
As for the AMD FX builds... Unless you are designing a machine to do something else and that also happens to play CS:Go then you want high single thread performance, something AMD is really terrible at. Probably want to avoid those.
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Traciatim
June 9, 2014 6:04:02 AM
mamamia13 said:
Traciatim said:
For CS:Go you pretty much want the highest single thread performance and a fairly good video card. The machine I put together is mostly designed so that in 2 or 3 years you could throw in a new video card and an i5 or i7 in it and extend the life of it out for a couple of more years.I put the G3420 in there because it will be a similar price, but what I think you really want is the new Pentium G3258 with the unlocked multiplier. It should be able to run at 4Ghz fairly easily and would tear through CS:Go.
I also included an SSD, but only to enable SRT and cache the 1TB spinning disk. This will make it boot really fast and be super responsive in the things you do every day. I'm not sure of what the exchange rates and costs over there are, but I'm pretty sure this would fit inside the budget.
http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/kybhmG
You could have added in front of pcpartpicker.com uk... just like you did with ca.pcpartpicker.com. There are so many things wrong with that build. First of all, you added a cooler when it is a PENTIUM processor and will not produce that much heat at all. Stock cooler will be fine. You added a Z97 mobo when the Pentgium processor is not unlocked for OCing, you could have gone H97.EVGA PSUs are not trusted unless they are above 1000W
Of course you didn't also read the note about putting the Devil's canyon unlocked processor in there, it just wasn't available on the parts list I had, and OCing it to about 4Ghz or so. The Z97 was so that a couple years in you could throw a 'then current' overclock-able i5/i7 in there and extend the life of the rig out for a few more years. Maybe if you could read you would have seen it. I picked the PSU since even a machine with an i7 and a 780 won't be using much more than 350 watts anyway, so something rated at 580 in it's 12v lines would work just fine and it's cheap. You could put a CX500 in there instead, but running at near 50% capacity pretty much anything will work.
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Vic 40
June 9, 2014 6:19:54 AM
Joelan said:
I'm currently playing a lot of counterstrike (50+ hours a week) but my current pc sucks -Joelan
What parts are in your current pc?
You could do the next,
Download the next program,
http://www.hwinfo.com/download32.html
open it,click run,close the top window which is the system summary,click save report at the left top,in the next window at the bottom check=dot "short text report" after that next,you'll get to see what is in your pc,copy that by clicking "copy to clipboard" and right click and paste in you next post.
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Vic 40
June 9, 2014 6:43:45 AM
For about the same money could you get a quadcore in,
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/LJVwkL
or for less a dualcore build,
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/djXyqs
The money saved could also be put into a better gpu,
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/fyfvqs
the r9 270X should already be fine for it according to game debate.(i don't play it so ...)
A better case is also something to look at with money saved.
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Joelan
June 9, 2014 8:28:41 AM
Joelan
June 9, 2014 8:32:50 AM
Took all your help and advice
Hopefully getting this soon - Thank you all soo much
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/y7Rvqs
Hopefully getting this soon - Thank you all soo much
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/y7Rvqs
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mamamia13
June 9, 2014 8:38:44 AM
Vic 40 said:
For about the same money could you get a quadcore in,
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/LJVwkL
or for less a dualcore build,
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/djXyqs
The money saved could also be put into a better gpu,
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/fyfvqs
the r9 270X should already be fine for it according to game debate.(i don't play it so ...)
A better case is also something to look at with money saved.
Um, I did have a dual core, what are you talking about?
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Joelan
June 9, 2014 8:41:17 AM
Vic 40
June 9, 2014 9:44:15 AM
Joelan said:
Took all your help and advice
Hopefully getting this soon - Thank you all soo much
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/y7Rvqs
Change the 1x8 gb of ram to 2x4gb for dualchannel support..The motherboard has 4 slots so it's the way to go.I also would pick the xfx psu from my build(s).
Like this,
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/Gnd9t6
mamamia13 said:
Um, I did have a dual core, what are you talking about?
It's my opinion that money could be spend more wisely.Dualcore buid for less or a quadcore build for the same price.
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S Money 17
September 3, 2014 12:25:45 PM
Is this pc good for csgo? http://m.bestbuy.com/m/e/product/detail.jsp?skuId=13101...
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Vic 40
September 4, 2014 11:53:47 AM
mamamia13
September 4, 2014 8:41:18 PM
Vic 40 said:
For about the same money could you get a quadcore in,
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/LJVwkL
or for less a dualcore build,
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/djXyqs
The money saved could also be put into a better gpu,
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/fyfvqs
the r9 270X should already be fine for it according to game debate.(i don't play it so ...)
A better case is also something to look at with money saved.
Rereading this thread since it popped up. There is a 10 pound difference between my pc and yours, I don't think that at this pricepoint it is justifiable to call it cheaper especially since we basically have the same parts. I just have a higher quality GPU IMO.
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Vic 40
September 5, 2014 12:03:12 PM
mamamia13
September 5, 2014 1:23:26 PM
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