Gaming and Recording Pc for Around £500

ThatGuyNamedKasper · April 21, 2015

1. Budget & Location

My budget is £500 but £550 is max. I am in London, UK.

2. Aim

My aim with this system is to play games from medium to high settings with 60fps and over if possible, I would also like to be able to record on this pc, recording games, video edit - not heavy and do some occasional streaming. Some of the games I will be playing are, CS.GO, TF2, Minecraft, Fractured Space, GTA V PC.

3. Monitors

I am planning on running this pc with one monitor, you do not have to include the monitor in the build.

4. Peripherals

I just need a simple keyboard and windows 7 64bit.

5. Why are you upgrading?
I'm not.

improbablepants · April 21, 2015

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4440 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor (£142.09 @ Ebuyer)

Motherboard: MSI Z97 PC MATE ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£62.36 @ Scan.co.uk)

Memory: Kingston Fury Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£47.57 @ Ebuyer)

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£38.34 @ Aria PC)

Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 280 3GB WINDFORCE Video Card (£148.42 @ Ebuyer)

Case: Corsair SPEC-01 RED ATX Mid Tower Case (£37.99 @ Amazon UK)

Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£38.99 @ Novatech)

Keyboard: Cooler Master CM Storm Devastator Gaming Bundle Wired Gaming Keyboard w/Optical Mouse (£26.38 @ Scan.co.uk)

Total: £542.14

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-21 20:09 BST+0100

ATX Z97 give you room for an i7 sometime later if you ever want to go that way. Same reason for 1x8GB, you can upgrade to 16GB sometime later (And dual channel isn't half of what its hyped). The R9-280 is just an underclocked 280X, so spend some time in something like afterburner, you'll get it faster in no time.

Windows is what is pushing this over your budget. I'm sure you can find a cheap legal key somewhere on the internet...