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hammernonailz

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i would like to build a gaming system for around £300-£400 budget, any ideas on componets for best gear for my money.
many thanks in advance
 
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If you want a working system bought entirely new, you'll have a really bad time because just the cost of the OS is 1/3rd / 1/4th of your budget unless you buy it on Kinguin or other 3rd party sites. I would suggest you go for used parts in this case because you can get way more performance than new, I am not from the UK myself so I have no idea what you have in your country but I did put up a system with I7 3820 watercooled, GTX 970 for aprox £550. If you look around on Ebay for used parts you can get a monster PC with GTX 770/780, I5 4th gen, maybe i7 2nd gen (i7 2nd gen is better in multicore). But remember it takes patience and time to find the correct parts and always try to compare. If you however want to build entirely new...
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AqwBroders

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Hi!
If you want a working system bought entirely new, you'll have a really bad time because just the cost of the OS is 1/3rd / 1/4th of your budget unless you buy it on Kinguin or other 3rd party sites. I would suggest you go for used parts in this case because you can get way more performance than new, I am not from the UK myself so I have no idea what you have in your country but I did put up a system with I7 3820 watercooled, GTX 970 for aprox £550. If you look around on Ebay for used parts you can get a monster PC with GTX 770/780, I5 4th gen, maybe i7 2nd gen (i7 2nd gen is better in multicore). But remember it takes patience and time to find the correct parts and always try to compare. If you however want to build entirely new from scratch I'll have a list (Without OS, you can pick one up at Kinguin for ~£22)

I3 6100 - £93
Gigabyte H110M-S2H - £52
HyperX FURY Black 8GB DDR4 - £35
Zotac Gtx 1060 mini 3gb -£189
Western Digital 1TB - 42£
EVGA 500 W1 80+ - 43£
Thermaltake Versa H21 - 40£

This totals in on ~490£ (without OS) which is more than 400£, but for 400£ it's almost impossible if you do not go for used.
You could go for RX 460 to save some bucks or wait for GTX 1050 which comes out in a couple of weeks according to rumours.
Edit: If you go for RX 460 You'll be above 400£ by just some bucks.
 
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At your budget, you are not going to fit a nice enough GPU in there to displace the built-in HD 530... Add a GPU and SSD when you can afford to upgrade down the road. You have upgrades available with the CPU in the i5-6500 or i6-6700, two open memory slots, and a PSU sized for a GTX 1060 or similar.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor (£92.91 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B150M-DS3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£65.99 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Crucial 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (£34.62 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£42.43 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Deepcool TESSERACT SW RED ATX Mid Tower Case (£31.98 @ Ebuyer)
Power Supply: XFX XT 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£42.98 @ Novatech)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit (£84.98 @ Novatech)
Total: £395.89
 
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AqwBroders

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He can save some almost 60£ if he buys a win 10 key from Kinguin.
 
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