Help in £300 budget gaming pc build !

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Taha Siddiqui

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Hi guys ! As the title says that i wanna build a £300 gaming pc, and I want it not to exceed the price limit, mostly I would be gaming on it, browsing the internet, doing a little video editing and a little photoshop, as I am only 13 years old. So you could understand that my main need is gaming, then web rendering and browsing, I would be doing a VERY little photoshop and editing and not too cpu intensive, I want an excellent and pretty descent build cause I would be keeping it for almost a year or two, Oh yeah! the games I play are FPS and open world like BF4, Titanfall, Assassin's Creed, Watch Dogs, Fifa 15, Metro: Last Light, Crysis 3 and other upcoming games like AC Unity, Farcry 4, The crew and others ! So I want descent framerates of more than 35 FPS and it would be great to have more than 40 FPS.
I was recently researching amd r9 280 and it is quite good than gtx 760 which I was liking before.
4gb 1600 mhz memory would be fine for me and would really be a headstart cause currently i have a DDR2 4gb 800 something. I know that I have a pretty outdated rig right now.
Yeah ! 250 gb of storage would be enough for me.
I have a single 900 x 1600 pivel display.
Thanks guys in advance, any help would be highly appreciated from me :)
 
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Newbbuilder11

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I wont have enough for a budget build to fill some of those specifications.... Can you opt up for 100 dollars more? I'll see what i can do... since a GPU to handle what you want is atleast 100 dollars that is 1/3 of your budget right there...
 
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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 750K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($79.49 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A55M-S1 Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard ($34.69 @ Newegg)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($43.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($67.99 @ Dell Small Business)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R7 265 2GB Video Card ($139.99 @ Micro Center)
Case: Aerocool Strike-X One ATX Mid Tower Case ($49.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($41.13 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer ($19.98 @ OutletPC)
Total: $477.25
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-18 11:50 EDT-0400

best i could do... this is 369.53 Euro
 
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£300 is too little for a gaming pc....

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD A10-7850K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor (£121.32 @ Scan.co.uk)
Motherboard: MSI A88XM-E35 Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard (£36.72 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport XT 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£57.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Samsung Spinpoint F1 DT 750GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£29.97 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Case: Zalman ZM-T3 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£18.87 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply (£31.55 @ Aria PC)
Total: £296.42
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-18 16:59 BST+0100
 
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Taha Siddiqui

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hey the currency is pounds not dollars :)
 
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For what you want, 300 isn't really enough. What is your current rig?

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor (£71.52 @ CCL Computers)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 Micro ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£35.69 @ CCL Computers)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1333 Memory (£29.10 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£35.94 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R7 250X 2GB Video Card (£79.50 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: Zalman ZM-T3 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£18.87 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply (£31.55 @ Aria PC)
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24F1ST DVD/CD Writer (£19.05 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £321.22
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-18 17:37 BST+0100
 
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Thanks for the response, currently i have dell optiplex 960, but i have changed some parts, it has core 2 duo e8400 3.00 ghz , 4gb DDR2 868 mhz memory i think, 160gb HDD, dell's mobo
 
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Is it a thin tower or standard width tower? You might be able to do some cheap upgrades to your current system, to hold you over till you can get a better setup.

http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/optix/en/desktop-optiplex-960-technical-guidebook-en.pdf

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Intel-Core-2-Quad-Q9650-3-00GHZ-12M-1333MHz-FSB-LGA-775-SLB8W-km-/121438518874?pt=CPUs&hash=item1c464cbe5a

with

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Memory: Crucial 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2-800 Memory (£47.84 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£35.94 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R7 260X 2GB Video Card (£80.39 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply (£31.55 @ Aria PC)
Total: £195.72
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-18 19:15 BST+0100

This would be about 260. You could go higher on the gpu, which I would recommend, and reuse it in a new system later, along with the PSU and HDD.
 
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what about this build :-
amd A8 5600k black edition 3.6 ghz APU | £60
MSI A55M-E33 AMD FM2+ | £29
Crucial 4GB (1x 4GB) PC1866 CL10 BallistixSport DDR3 | £20
Cooler Master Elite 334U | £25
EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply | £32
250GB Seagate Barracuda used | £15
graphics card ?
 
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You would be better off upgrading your current system, than using that, to be honest. That is if your system isn't a slim tower version. This would meet your max budget, with that CPU on ebay. Just verify you have the room in your case to handle it.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Memory: Crucial 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2-800 Memory (£47.84 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£35.94 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 270X 2GB Dual-X Video Card (£119.00 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply (£31.55 @ Aria PC)
Total: £234.33
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-18 19:19 BST+0100

If your system is standard tower, and can handle the length of the GPU, I would go this route, then start saving for a better CPU, MB, RAM, and case. If your DVD drive is sata, it can be reused too.
 
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i don't need a dvd drive, already got one
 
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You should go with intel. The new integrated graphics is surprisingly effective for low to mid gaming rigs. And when you'll have the money for a decent graphic card, you'll just have to plug it in the mobo.
 
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Bro i won't be able to upgrade my build in the next year or two perhaps
 
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I'm just telling you that the new Pentium series are great cpu and have decent graphics integrated in it. You could last with that for 6 months / a year and stack money to upgrade with true dedicated graphic card that's worth the price. I think it's a nice way to build a reliable rig with plenty of upgrade possibilities.
 
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I'm just telling you that the new Pentium series are great cpu and have decent graphics integrated in it. You could last with that for 6 months / a year and stack money to upgrade with true dedicated graphic card that's worth the price. I think it's a nice way to build a reliable rig with plenty of upgrade possibilities.[/quotemsg]

So thanks you sooo much for helping me, i've finally decided on my build... Thanks to you :)
here is the link to the parts, what do you guys think ? And yeah it is crossfire capable !

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/cFGYf7
 
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