PC build

[aprofile]

hi,

I am hopefully going to be building a pc later this year and want it to have ddr4 memory however I only have a budget of £400 ($575 US). I am hoping to use it for gaming so it will need a decent gpu. I have configured a pc on pcpartspicker however I could use some advice on the parts before I buy them. Please tell me if you can see any places where I could either save money without losing performance or increase performance without paying much/any more.

pc part picker link - http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/DZgRjX

[Guest]

Maybe look for some used ram? 8gb will help alot

[Guest]

Or get a non modular psu, you will be able to get that 8gb of ram new

[stealth80]

2 minutes ago, aprofile said:

hi,

I am hopefully going to be building a pc later this year and want it to have ddr4 memory however I only have a budget of £400 ($575 US). I am hoping to use it for gaming so it will need a decent gpu. I have configured a pc on pcpartspicker however I could use some advice on the parts before I buy them. Please tell me if you can see any places where I could either save money without losing performance or increase performance without paying much/any more.

pc part picker link - http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/DZgRjX

Is it possible for you to save a little more? I would maybe look for some used parts, the jump between say £400 and £600 is quite a lot. Also try not to quote dollars, there's a lot of helpful people around here, but some will run pcpartpicker using USD which works out hell of a lot cheaper than us poor sods in the UK

[Stardar1]

2 minutes ago, aprofile said:

hi,

I am hopefully going to be building a pc later this year and want it to have ddr4 memory however I only have a budget of £400 ($575 US). I am hoping to use it for gaming so it will need a decent gpu. I have configured a pc on pcpartspicker however I could use some advice on the parts before I buy them. Please tell me if you can see any places where I could either save money without losing performance or increase performance without paying much/any more.

pc part picker link - http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/DZgRjX

There is no point in forcing DDR4 when it can cost you a lot of performance. 

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/JTvHYJ
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/JTvHYJ/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£149.99 @ Novatech) 
Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£33.99 @ Ebuyer) 
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Blue 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£27.82 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£37.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 380 4GB Double Dissipation Video Card  (£159.98 @ Novatech) 
Case: NZXT Source 210 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£34.98 @ Amazon UK) 
Power Supply: XFX XT 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£50.28 @ Aria PC) 
Total: £495.03
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-29 23:03 BST+0100

[Senzelian]

10 minutes ago, Stardar1 said:

There is no point in forcing DDR4 when it can cost you a lot of performance. 

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/JTvHYJ
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/JTvHYJ/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£149.99 @ Novatech) 
Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£33.99 @ Ebuyer) 
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Blue 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£27.82 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£37.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 380 4GB Double Dissipation Video Card  (£159.98 @ Novatech) 
Case: NZXT Source 210 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£34.98 @ Amazon UK) 
Power Supply: XFX XT 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£50.28 @ Aria PC) 
Total: £495.03
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-29 23:03 BST+0100

Almost £100 over his budget. 

To stay in his budget we have to cut a lot of corners, but overall I would say this build is fine:
 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4170 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor  (£93.98 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£33.99 @ Ebuyer) 
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£23.99 @ Ebuyer) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£37.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 950 2GB Dual WindForce Video Card  (£126.04 @ More Computers) 
Case: Fractal Design Core 1100 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (£29.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Power Supply: XFX TS 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£31.96 @ More Computers) 
Other: Windows 10 (£20.00)
Total: £397.94
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-29 23:13 BST+0100

[Stardar1]

2 hours ago, Senzelian said:

Almost £100 over his budget. 

To stay in his budget we have to cut a lot of corners, but overall I would say this build is fine:
 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4170 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor  (£93.98 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£33.99 @ Ebuyer) 
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£23.99 @ Ebuyer) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£37.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 950 2GB Dual WindForce Video Card  (£126.04 @ More Computers) 
Case: Fractal Design Core 1100 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (£29.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Power Supply: XFX TS 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£31.96 @ More Computers) 
Other: Windows 10 (£20.00)
Total: £397.94
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-29 23:13 BST+0100

But when it comes down to the wire he's better up saving another 100 pounds to get my build. 

[Senzelian]

6 minutes ago, Stardar1 said:

But when it comes down to the wire he's better up saving another 100 pounds to get my build. 

If he saves up another 4000 pounds he'll end up with a better system. And if he saves up another 300.000 pound he can buy a supercar.
We all know that, but that doesn't get us anywhere. 

[Stardar1]

Just now, Senzelian said:

If he saves up another 4000 pounds he'll end up with a better system. And if he saves up another 300.000 pound he can buy a supercar.
We all know that, but that doesn't get us anywhere. 

But one can make 100 pounds in a week if they play their cards correctly. 

[Senzelian]

1 minute ago, Stardar1 said:

But one can make 100 pounds in a week if they play their cards correctly. 

That's true.
You know, it would've been a great advise, if you would've actually told him to save up some more money to get a much better system. But you didn't.

[Stardar1]

2 minutes ago, Senzelian said:

That's true.
You know, it would've been a great advise, if you would've actually told him to save up some more money to get a much better system. But you didn't.

Yeah, I was planning on it, but my finger slipped

[Streetguru]

3 hours ago, aprofile said:

How much later? there's not going to be much point in planning out a PC build now as everything is going to change

[BurblingBarbacoa]

I don't have any 'save money' add ions to this build but there are some things I would try and add if you can.

• try grab an extra 4gb of ram. 8gb should be a minimum. 
• Try grab a slightly larger hard drive. If you don't think that you will exceed 320gb then go for it. I think that 1tb or at least 500gb will be a better option 

[brob]

I would spend less on the case and a touch less in other place. But I would get a 1TB hdd and 8GB of memory.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor  (£96.99 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: MSI H110M Pro-VD Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£45.99 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  (£25.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£37.98 @ Novatech)
Video Card: Asus Radeon R7 370 2GB Video Card  (£118.77 @ Ebuyer)
Case: Zalman ZM-T1 PLUS MicroATX Mid Tower Case  (£25.97 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Power Supply: XFX XT 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£44.28 @ Aria PC)
Total: £395.97
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-30 03:23 BST+0100

[aprofile]

11 hours ago, aprofile said:

hi,

I am hopefully going to be building a pc later this year and want it to have ddr4 memory however I only have a budget of £400 ($575 US). I am hoping to use it for gaming so it will need a decent gpu. I have configured a pc on pcpartspicker however I could use some advice on the parts before I buy them. Please tell me if you can see any places where I could either save money without losing performance or increase performance without paying much/any more.

pc part picker link - http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/DZgRjX

how about this- http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/WPXXCJ

[aprofile]

11 hours ago, aprofile said:

hi,

I am hopefully going to be building a pc later this year and want it to have ddr4 memory however I only have a budget of £400 ($575 US). I am hoping to use it for gaming so it will need a decent gpu. I have configured a pc on pcpartspicker however I could use some advice on the parts before I buy them. Please tell me if you can see any places where I could either save money without losing performance or increase performance without paying much/any more.

pc part picker link - http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/DZgRjX

would it be better to save about £20 and get a new r9 260x because the 270x in my build is used.

[brob]

9 hours ago, aprofile said:

would it be better to save about £20 and get a new r9 260x because the 270x in my build is used.

So long as the 270x is in good condition, it is the better choice for gaming.