Custom PC Build

[_JohnB330ci]

Hello there! Soon I'm looking to splash £500 on a portable PC that I can take out and about with me when I go to work, family places etc. (This would also act as a server for me and my friends when I'm not out and about with it)

 

I have two requests:

 

1) To spend no more than £500, this including an OS (I can get Windows 8.1 From G2A For £25Ish)

2) I would like it to be as quiet as possible and in the Aerocool Dead Silence Gaming Cube case.

 

 

Thank you

 

This PC will be used for light gaming and photoshop + after effects editing. Also could you please build it on PCPartPicker.

[_JohnB330ci]

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[1Scotty1]

With that budget - what kind of gaming are you considering?

[_JohnB330ci]

With that budget - what kind of gaming are you considering?

"light gaming" So thinks like Terraria, Trove, CS:GO etc, I think the Superclocked 750ti would serve that well, which is around £130 I believe.

[Jlryan]

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/2tPpkL

 

Nothing special (plus first time I've ever used PCPP)

 

Since there wasn't really any context as to what you wanted to do with the build, I went for a basic office/production with a little gaming in mind kinda theme.

[Bob Jim]

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/2tPpkL

 

Nothing special (plus first time I've ever used PCPP)

 

Since there wasn't really any context as to what you wanted to do with the build, I went for a basic office/production with a little gaming in mind kinda theme.

Do NOT go with this, pathetic value for money, lemme make one quickly.

[_JohnB330ci]

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/2tPpkL

 

Nothing special (plus first time I've ever used PCPP)

 

Since there wasn't really any context as to what you wanted to do with the build, I went for a basic office/production with a little gaming in mind kinda theme.

 

This is a good build, but I would love to have a GPU in it.

[Jlryan]

This is a good build, but I would love to have a GPU in it.

It's an APU

 

Honestly I chose that because £500 is a fairly limiting budget, my process of choosing that hardware was so you can easily upgrade to a mid-range GPU in the not so distant future, but it's a rig to get you started until you reach that point.

 

Watch this, the APU's are pretty nifty if you know what settings to limit your games to so you don't overwhelm them.

 

[_JohnB330ci]

It's an APU

 

Honestly I chose that because £500 is a fairly limiting budget, my process of choosing that hardware was so you can easily upgrade to a mid-range GPU in the not so distant future, but it's a rig to get you started until you reach that point.

 

Yeah I guess it is, I will note it and see if anyone comes up with anything better.

[Bob Jim]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£141.22 @ More Computers) 

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H97M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£69.00 @ Aria PC) 

Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury White 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£38.39 @ Amazon UK) 

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£32.40 @ Aria PC) 

Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB FTW ACX Video Card  (£113.89 @ Aria PC) 

Case: Aerocool DS Cube Black/White Silent Cube MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (£55.20 @ CCL Computers) 

Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£36.98 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Total: £487.08

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

 

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-07-13 10:10 BST+0100

 

This is a solid all round build. A 120GB Samsung 850-EVO SSD would make for a nice upgrade as a boot drive. As for silence, with that budget you cannot really be picky. The CPU will be able to handle gaming and Photoshop with no problems. The 750Ti is the best one available. Decent no frills motherboard, and 8GB is enough for RAM, although you might want to go for a single 8GB stick so that you have the option to add another one in the future for a total of 16GB of RAM.

[Jlryan]

Oops, was too late, edited my last post to include a video. (Forgive me, I've been up for the last 18 hours )

[_JohnB330ci]

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£141.22 @ More Computers) 

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H97M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£69.00 @ Aria PC) 

Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury White 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£38.39 @ Amazon UK) 

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£32.40 @ Aria PC) 

Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB FTW ACX Video Card  (£113.89 @ Aria PC) 

Case: Aerocool DS Cube Black/White Silent Cube MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (£55.20 @ CCL Computers) 

Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£36.98 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Total: £487.08

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

 

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-07-13 10:10 BST+0100

 

This is a solid all round build. A 120GB Samsung 850-EVO SSD would make for a nice upgrade as a boot drive. As for silence, with that budget you cannot really be picky. The CPU will be able to handle gaming and Photoshop with no problems. The 750Ti is the best one available. Decent no frills motherboard, and 8GB is enough for RAM, although you might want to go for a single 8GB stick so that you have the option to add another one in the future for a total of 16GB of RAM.

 

 

This is a neat build, I've noted this down as well, thank you very much

[Bob Jim]

This is a neat build, I've noted this down as well, thank you very much

You're welcome! I have refined it a bit:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£141.22 @ More Computers) 

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H97M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£69.00 @ Aria PC) 

Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  (£35.60 @ Amazon UK) 

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£39.96 @ Amazon UK) 

Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB FTW ACX Video Card  (£113.89 @ Aria PC) 

Case: Aerocool DS Cube Black/White Silent Cube MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (£55.20 @ CCL Computers) 

Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£36.98 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Total: £491.85

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-07-13 10:17 BST+0100

 

Added a single 8GB stick for £4 less, which gives later upgrade ability, and upgraded the HDD to a Caviar Blue, which is more reliable and slightly faster, while making the overall price of the build rise by £4. Worth it in my opinion. You could shave a couple of pounds by going with a 400-450W PSU, but the 500W allows you to upgrade to a beefier GTX960/970 in the future, while coming with a nice 80+Bronze for a VERY good price. Cable management will be a little bit tricky, as it is not modular, but you pay a lot more for modular PSUs, so, beggars can't be choosers .

[Atmos]

 

You're welcome! I have refined it a bit:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£141.22 @ More Computers) 

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H97M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£69.00 @ Aria PC) 

Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  (£35.60 @ Amazon UK) 

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£39.96 @ Amazon UK) 

Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB FTW ACX Video Card  (£113.89 @ Aria PC) 

Case: Aerocool DS Cube Black/White Silent Cube MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (£55.20 @ CCL Computers) 

Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£36.98 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Total: £491.85

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-07-13 10:17 BST+0100

 

Added a single 8GB stick for £4 less, which gives later upgrade ability, and upgraded the HDD to a Caviar Blue, which is more reliable and slightly faster, while making the overall price of the build rise by £4. Worth it in my opinion. You could shave a couple of pounds by going with a 400-450W PSU, but the 500W allows you to upgrade to a beefier GTX960/970 in the future, while coming with a nice 80+Bronze for a VERY good price. Cable management will be a little bit tricky, as it is not modular, but you pay a lot more for modular PSUs, so, beggars can't be choosers .

 

 

This is far better than the apu build. It offers better fps in games, both with a stronger cpu, and far better graphics solution.

[Jlryan]

Did some more digging around, Intel prices were much more reasonable than I thought 

 

Here's a better build, though it is slightly over budget.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i3-4160 3.6GHz Dual-Core Processor  (£84.53 @ Ebuyer) 

Motherboard: MSI H97M-E35 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£58.76 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  (£35.60 @ Amazon UK) 

Storage: Sandisk Solid State Drive 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£38.87 @ CCL Computers) 

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£32.40 @ Aria PC) 

Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 2GB Video Card  (£147.59 @ Aria PC) 

Case: Aerocool DS Cube Black/White Silent Cube MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (£55.20 @ CCL Computers) 

Power Supply: Corsair CX 500W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£51.21 @ Amazon UK) 

Total: £504.16

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-07-13 10:40 BST+0100

[RayhanAli]

Try this! http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/nXgM7P