Building a Gaming PC for £250

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CussinFrog

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Somebody I know wants a gaming pc built for their 13 year old son, he plays games such as minecraft.
With such as small budget I have been racking my brains out to come up with a good rig for the money.
This is what I have come up with
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/VqCnD3

What kind of games do you think it will handle?

If you guys have any other suggestions for builds please let me know
 
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This would probably outperform a 240. I believe the A10's igpu is equivalent to the R7 250

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD A10-7700K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£89.40 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-HD3 Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard (£38.66 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance Pro 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2133 Memory (£38.67 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 320GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£20.00 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Thermaltake Versa H24 ATX Mid Tower Case (£26.57 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: SeaSonic ECO 430W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply...
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CTurbo

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Honestly, I really recommend increasing the budget a little. I would not waste money on a R7 240. You can build a system twice as strong for just £35 more. The biggest problem with the r7 240 is you'll find yourself replacing it a lot sooner than later.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 740 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£44.55 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-HD3 Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard (£38.66 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Patriot Signature 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£32.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 320GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£20.00 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 750 1GB Video Card (£83.70 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: Thermaltake Versa H24 ATX Mid Tower Case (£26.57 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: SeaSonic ECO 430W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£29.99 @ Scan.co.uk)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£9.00 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £285.46
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-14 20:59 BST+0100
 
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I have said that to them, the budget is really hard to raise for them.
Realistically, do you think the R7 240 would be capable of running games such as minecraft with decent results?
 
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I have a secondary htpc with an Sapphire R7 240 1gb GDDR5 with Boost. This one:
http://www.game-debate.com/hardware/index.php?gid=2405&graphics=Radeon%20R7%20240%20v2%20Sapphire%201GB%20Edition
It plays fine not very demanding games even at 1080p.
If you pick an R7 240 make sure you pick a gddr5 version with 1gb of ram (you don't really need two as the card is too weak to make use of that).
 
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This would probably outperform a 240. I believe the A10's igpu is equivalent to the R7 250

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD A10-7700K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£89.40 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-HD3 Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard (£38.66 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance Pro 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2133 Memory (£38.67 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 320GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£20.00 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Thermaltake Versa H24 ATX Mid Tower Case (£26.57 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: SeaSonic ECO 430W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£29.99 @ Scan.co.uk)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£9.00 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £252.29
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-14 21:53 BST+0100
 
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I agree. I just wanted to tell the performance you could expect from an R7 240.
 
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I would suggest an intel g3258 build with an r7-250 for about the same price. Minecraft does better on intel I believe since its only uses 2 cores.

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/8yXzD3

It came to £272 but I've included a Power supply since the case doesn't come with one, and a front intake fan which is also not included with that case. (£237 without those additions)

PS- And I omitted the dvd drive since you can download just about all software these dayz and installing windows is much faster with a flash drive.
 
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