Budget PC Build Help

[N3RD]

Hey everyone. I'm planning to put together a gaming rig, problem is I have no idea how powerful I'll need it to be, so here's hoping someone can help me. The only games I plan to run on it are World of Warcraft and DOTA2. I'd like it to be able to run WoW 25 man raids at near enough max graphics, with fairly high addon memory usage, without any FPS issues at all. I also plan to run 2 monitors (both 24" if that matters) and ideally I'd like it as cheap as possible because I'm a broke ass student. I'm planning to buy the parts in a month or two and was wondering if it matters if I decide on the build now or closer to the date (due to price changes). I'm located in the UK and I'd appreciate if you could advise me based on UK PC part prices, because it seems like it's so much cheaper everywhere else

 

Thanks in advance,

 

 

N3RD

[Jobbe03]

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/3061-build-plan-thread-recommendations-please-read-before-posting/

[BonBon Scott]

We need more informations, refer to the link @Jobbe03 posted.

 

(We need a budget)

[N3RD]

ideally I'd like it as cheap as possible because I'm a broke ass student. 

 

 

That's my budget. A system that will do all of that with the bare minimum spend. One of the reasons I posted here is because I don't know exactly how much I'd need to shell out for a system that'll do what i require of it. Hopefully this doesn't complicate things.

 

Thanks again

[Jobbe03]

That's my budget. A system that will do all of that with the bare minimum spend. One of the reasons I posted here is because I don't know exactly how much I'd need to shell out for a system that'll do what i require of it. Hopefully this doesn't complicate things.

 

Thanks again

That's not a budget damn'it. Give us a max cap.

[dragoon20005]

That's my budget. A system that will do all of that with the bare minimum spend. One of the reasons I posted here is because I don't know exactly how much I'd need to shell out for a system that'll do what i require of it. Hopefully this doesn't complicate things.

 

Thanks again

what Jobbe03

 

we need a figure like 200 bucks 300 bucks

 

and do you need OS, mouse, keyboard and monitor

[N3RD]

I was hoping to spend at most £400 but would that be sufficient? I don't want to buy something that won't do what I require of it. I don't need anything other than a the system itself I have monitors, OS etc..

[dragoon20005]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 760K 3.8GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£57.31 @ Scan.co.uk) 

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  (£24.25 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Motherboard: MSI A78M-E45 Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard  (£37.18 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Memory: Kingston Black Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£58.18 @ Amazon UK) 

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£38.70 @ Aria PC) 

Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 270X 2GB Dual-X Video Card  (£119.00 @ Amazon UK) 

Case: Cooler Master Force 500 ATX Mid Tower Case  (£31.55 @ CCL Computers) 

Power Supply: Corsair Builder 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£44.12 @ Aria PC) 

Total: £410.29

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-07-23 02:39 BST+0100

 

slightly over by 10 pounds

 

but still get you somewhere decent performance

[ForsakenLive]

For WoW and Dota,  single core performance is very important and the games can't utilize more than once core really.

The SSD for WoW comes in very handly, as it reduces screen loading times a ton, and when you change zones quickly it doesn't drop as much frames.

 

A system like this is more than enough to max out this 2 games and beyond, without having frame drops:

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/9rJH7P

Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/9rJH7P/by_merchant/

 

CPU: Intel Core i3-4370 3.8GHz Dual-Core Processor  (£115.56 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Motherboard: ASRock H81M-HDS Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£34.52 @ Amazon UK) 

Memory: Patriot Viper 3 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£53.15 @ Ebuyer) 

Storage: Sandisk Solid State Drive 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£46.00 @ Aria PC) 

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£36.00 @ Aria PC) 

Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 270X 2GB Dual-X Video Card  (£119.00 @ Amazon UK) 

Case: Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mid Tower Case  (£31.19 @ Aria PC) 

Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£35.40 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Case Fan: Arctic Cooling Arctic F12 74.0 CFM 120mm  Fan  (£3.98 @ Novatech) 

Total: £474.80

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-07-23 02:47 BST+0100

 

If you have more money to spare, getting a more powerful GPU and CPU can be beneficial., but this will pretty much do it.