Best gaming pc for £550

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menacedude

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Hi Guys.

I'm looking at building a budget gaming pc of up to £550 including windows.

I have looked at the following components

Coolermaster Elite 430 Advance Case
Gtx 960 GPU
Intel G3258 CPU
Gigabtye Z97P-D3 motherboard
Coolermaster Hyper 212 Evo cooler
Coolermaster G550M psu
Seagate Barracuda 2tb hdd

Can anyone tell me if these are the best components I can get for my budget, also could I run some of the latest games with this (shadow of mordor, far cry 4 etc)

Any help would be great.

Thanks
 
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mrt3

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Your components are good enough you chose them very wisely still i would recommend you to go for core i5 or core i3(HT) as now games requires a quad core cpu
 
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Archaic59

Archaic59

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For just a little more:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£143.98 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: ASRock H97 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£64.13 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£60.45 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£42.97 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 2GB Video Card (£169.15 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: Corsair SPEC-03 Red ATX Mid Tower Case (£45.80 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£46.79 @ Aria PC)
Total: £573.27
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-03-02 12:40 GMT+0000
 
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envy14tpe

envy14tpe

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Mar 3, 2012
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This will game at near max settings with 1080p. And it fits the budget.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4150 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor (£84.16 @ Scan.co.uk)
Motherboard: ASRock H87 Pro4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£59.97 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£52.98 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£58.80 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 280 3GB TWIN FROZR Video Card (£146.99 @ Novatech)
Case: Cooler Master K280 ATX Mid Tower Case (£21.48 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£46.79 @ Aria PC)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£74.95 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £546.12
 
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LucoTF

LucoTF

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Includes windows and a disk drive

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4160 3.6GHz Dual-Core Processor (£87.56 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97P-D3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£61.16 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£54.00 @ Kustom PCs)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£42.97 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 280 3GB TWIN FROZR Video Card (£146.99 @ Novatech)
Case: Zalman Z3 Plus ATX Mid Tower Case (£26.99 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£46.79 @ Aria PC)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£10.50 @ CCL Computers)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£74.09 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £551.05
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-03-02 12:55 GMT+0000

Should be pushing 50fps+ on FC4 and SoM on very high settings. The Zalman case comes with 4 fans preinstalled and a fan controller built in, and the Z97 gigabyte board is dirt cheap here in the Uk right now
 
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