£600 Max Intel Gaming and Recording Pc

[ThatGuyNamedKasper]

Hello everyone,

 

 

Before the summer holidays (in four weeks time) i would like to get myself a new pc, for of course gaming and recording. First of all my max budget is £600 and it has to include window 7 as I can upgrade to windows 10 later on.

 

What I want the pc to be able to do is gaming at 1080p and also recording these games at 720p.

 

Some of the games I will be playing are:

 

Cs.go, Minecraft, Tf2, ETS2, Train sim 2015, Skyrim, Insurgency, L4D2 and ect.

 

 

I would really want to play these games at 60fps, just a note.

 

 

 

For the recording side bit, I just want to be able to record these games without any lag. I will be recording 720p so I dont think it would be an issue at all.

 

 

 

Thank you!

[ADZ_123_!"£]

Why don't you want to with AMD for this build an FX8350 would be much better.

[SirBobson]

Working on it.

 

PS: Lucky you only got 4 weeks till the holidays i got like 6

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£139.99 @ Aria PC) 

Motherboard: MSI H81M-E34 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£35.58 @ CCL Computers) 

Memory: Kingston Savage 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£44.20 @ Ebuyer) 

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

Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 280X 3GB Black Edition Double Dissipation Video Card  (£170.39 @ Aria PC) 

Case: Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mid Tower Case  (£28.46 @ Amazon UK) 

Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£63.31 @ Amazon UK) 

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 OEM (64-bit)  (£67.95 @ Ebuyer) 

Total: £588.22

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-06-02 21:07 BST+0100

 

If you want to spend an extra bit of money you could get an SSD (you can get 64gb ones for around £30) or a upgrade to a 290 (they are about an extra £30).

[SkilledRebuilds]

Most recording programs from the GPU makers do it without any performance loss, AMD's GameDVR or Nvidia's Shadowplay, no CPU overhead, so you do not need a 'ballin' CPU to record, or to even encode your video afterwards,.. as most encoding programs are using GPU-assisted technologies.

 

Even still, using MSI Afterburner via the CPU to record,.., I could capture Mjpeg Movies @ 720p/1080p/30fps using just my Intel CPU easily..A SINGLE CORE,......... without much performance drop at all.(2-5fps), a bit more of a drop if Im using more cores to compress it with... (up to 10fps @ 1080p/30)

^This was with my older 2600K (worse single core performance that what I currently use, and that you would buy, if you chose an Intel CPU)

MSI AB's record function will do the job if not use the one that comes with your GPU.

As for the build, I'm sure someone will make something shortly that suits.

[AliveGhost13]

You have two topics

[SkilledRebuilds]

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/378942-%C2%A3600-max-intel-gaming-and-recording-pc/

 

Hello everyone,

 

Thank you!

ASK a mod to remove one of these topics... your creating confusion for both members and yourself.