287$ Witcher 3 PC

[NunoLava1998]

This 287$ PC can run Witcher 3 at Low at 1080p and Ultra (though only 11 fps) at 480p. Yeah, we made a 287$ PC that runs Witcher 3 at Ultra (at 11 fps at 480p, should run at 1x1 Ultra 500fps)

 

The CPU can already overclock to 5.2 GHz with Water Cooling, and yet it has a very strong IGPU in it, which is capable for light gaming.

We got a fine motherboard, and 8 GB of RAM it has, which is pretty much fine.

The cheapest GTX 950 was the GPU that we got. It is good for medium to heavy gaming, and it shouldn't bottleneck the A6 5400K it has, and even if it does, it should be a minor bottleneck.

We actually got the storage, and yet made it under 300$. (The last one was 300$ and didn't have storage. But it was a bit better in performance.) And it's a SSD.

The case? A cheap one with a power supply included. If you're gonna overclock it, it's gonna still work, beacuse it has 67W that is leftover, just good for overclocking.

 

PCPartPicker:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD A6-5400K 3.6GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($36.88 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: Asus A68HM-E Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard  ($39.99 @ Micro Center) 
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($26.44 @ OutletPC) 
Storage: Sandisk Z400s 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($36.99 @ NCIX US) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 950 2GB Superclocked+ ACX 2.0 Video Card  ($119.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Apex TX-381 MicroATX Mid Tower Case w/300W Power Supply  ($26.99 @ Directron) 
Total: $287.28
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-06-02 06:56 EDT-0400

PCPartPicker Link

[NunoLava1998]

How do you guys think about the build?

[Rolling Potatoe]

Thats....not really a worthwile gaming pc.

 

287$ could give you a nice 1080p experience though if you use used parts.

[alexhelvetica]

Is this you dream shitbox computer or did you actually make this?

[NunoLava1998]

3 minutes ago, Comic_Sans_MS said:

Is this you dream shitbox computer or did you actually make this?

I didn't build it but i made it on PCPartPicker. Seriously JUST STOP PICKING EVERY ERROR ON THE THING AND EXAGGERATING TO LEVELS HIGHER THAN INFINITY 

 

6 minutes ago, Rolling Potatoe said:

Thats....not really a worthwile gaming pc.

 

287$ could give you a nice 1080p experience though if you use used parts.

This computer can run pretty much every game at 1080p. And computers at that price are likely to not run everything at 1080p.

[Brennan Price]

Bro, you could have gone with an Athlon 860K and still get better results for this price range. Or even go with an AMD Card like R7 370 or even go as low as a 360 like I have.

[NunoLava1998]

1 minute ago, Brennan_Price said:

Bro, you could have gone with an Athlon 860K and still get better results for this price range. Or even go with an AMD Card like R7 370 or even go as low as a 360 like I have.

I didn't think of going with a 370 or 360, oh well, but the 860K is more expensive and ruins the price (under 300$). Just accept it, so many computers have this problem.

 

[Brennan Price]

2 minutes ago, NunoLava1998 said:

I didn't think of going with a 370 or 360, oh well, but the 860K is more expensive and ruins the price (under 300$). Just accept it, so many computers have this problem.

 

That is fair enough, but I live in UK and my whole build (on my profile page) cost me just £350 which is only £50 more expensive if you crunch the numbers.

[Ho0pz4sho]

9 minutes ago, NunoLava1998 said:

I didn't build it but i made it on PCPartPicker. Seriously JUST STOP PICKING EVERY ERROR ON THE THING AND EXAGGERATING TO LEVELS HIGHER THAN INFINITY 

 

This computer can run pretty much every game at 1080p. And computers at that price are likely to not run everything at 1080p.

You asked us for opinions, and then you say we're wrong.

5 minutes ago, NunoLava1998 said:

I didn't think of going with a 370 or 360, oh well, but the 860K is more expensive and ruins the price (under 300$). Just accept it, so many computers have this problem.

 

The 860K is $70. You'd be right at your budget.

But you know what the flaw of your under-$300 build is? You don't have a power supply.

[NunoLava1998]

1 minute ago, Ho0pz4sho said:

You asked us for opinions, and then you say we're wrong.

The 860K is $70. You'd be right at your budget.

But you know what the flaw of your under-$300 build is? You don't have a power supply.

Have you heard of cases with power supplies already installed?

[Ho0pz4sho]

1 minute ago, NunoLava1998 said:

Have you heard of cases with power supplies already installed?

300W? Lol. I'd be surprised if your build would power on on 300W.

[NunoLava1998]

17 minutes ago, Ho0pz4sho said:

300W? Lol. I'd be surprised if your build would power on on 300W.

It at maximum is at around 250W.

[Djole123]

Here's one that has a quad core and a 360:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD Athlon 5370 2.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($45.99 @ NCIX US) 
Motherboard: ASRock AM1B-M Micro ATX AM1 Motherboard  ($29.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($26.44 @ OutletPC) 
Storage: Western Digital AV-GP 500GB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($34.95 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: XFX Radeon R7 360 2GB Video Card  ($105.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Case: Xion XON-310_BK MicroATX Mid Tower Case  ($21.98 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: EVGA 400W ATX Power Supply  ($18.98 @ Newegg) 
Total: $284.32
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-06-02 07:42 EDT-0400

[NunoLava1998]

1 minute ago, Djole123 said:

Here's one that has a quad core and a 360:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD Athlon 5370 2.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($45.99 @ NCIX US) 
Motherboard: ASRock AM1B-M Micro ATX AM1 Motherboard  ($29.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($26.44 @ OutletPC) 
Storage: Western Digital AV-GP 500GB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($34.95 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: XFX Radeon R7 360 2GB Video Card  ($105.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Case: Xion XON-310_BK MicroATX Mid Tower Case  ($21.98 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: EVGA 400W ATX Power Supply  ($18.98 @ Newegg) 
Total: $284.32
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-06-02 07:42 EDT-0400

The GPU matters in Witcher 3, so it should perform around the same, but a bit more "inclined" to the worse side.

[LogicalDrm]

35 minutes ago, NunoLava1998 said:

I didn't build it but i made it on PCPartPicker. Seriously JUST STOP PICKING EVERY ERROR ON THE THING AND EXAGGERATING TO LEVELS HIGHER THAN INFINITY 

 

This computer can run pretty much every game at 1080p. And computers at that price are likely to not run everything at 1080p.

Since you haven't build it yet, where are links to benchmarks verifying your claims? I'm bit reluctant to believe that dual core CPU can run Witcher 3 (which is CPU intensive enough) 1080p with high or ultra settings. Also, I would ditch case and SSD for better PSU and 250Gb HDD. Witcher 3 and Windows will drain space fast.

[NunoLava1998]

3 minutes ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

Since you haven't build it yet, where are links to benchmarks verifying your claims? I'm bit reluctant to believe that dual core CPU can run Witcher 3 (which is CPU intensive enough) 1080p with high or ultra settings. Also, I would ditch case and SSD for better PSU and 250Gb HDD. Witcher 3 and Windows will drain space fast.

Ultra at 11 fps at 480p (720 x 480).

[Loleo]

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Minimum Requirements

CPU:	Intel CPU Core i5-2500K 3.3GHz / AMD CPU Phenom II X4 940

CPU Speed:

Info

RAM:

6 GB

OS:	64-bit Windows 7 or 64-bit Windows 8 (8.1)

Video Card:

Nvidia GPU GeForce GTX 660 / AMD GPU Radeon HD 7870

Free Disk Space:

40 GB

[LogicalDrm]

2 minutes ago, NunoLava1998 said:

Ultra at 11 fps at 480p (720 x 480).

 

Fine then, how many FPS does it bring with 1080p low settings?

 

1 minute ago, Loleo said:

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Minimum Requirements

CPU:	Intel CPU Core i5-2500K 3.3GHz / AMD CPU Phenom II X4 940

CPU Speed:

Info

RAM:

6 GB

OS:	64-bit Windows 7 or 64-bit Windows 8 (8.1)

Video Card:

Nvidia GPU GeForce GTX 660 / AMD GPU Radeon HD 7870

Free Disk Space:

40 GB

Which was pretty much as I expected. It requires quad-core. A6-5400K isn't going to cut it.

[typographie]

2 hours ago, NunoLava1998 said:

Ultra at 11 fps at 480p (720 x 480).

That's what most of us would consider far below playable. What does it take to get this system's minimum framerate to 30?

[No]

uhm 11 fps will be hell along with 480p being horrible as well

if it gets 30 on low in witcher you still could consider making minor changes

you are way better off with used parts

[NunoLava1998]

43 minutes ago, No said:

uhm 11 fps will be hell along with 480p being horrible as well

if it gets 30 on low in witcher you still could consider making minor changes

you are way better off with used parts

It should get around 30 low on Witcher III.... seriously if you game normal (a few intensive games and a few Pentium 4-minimum games) it's probably gonna be very good.

[LogicalDrm]

1 hour ago, NunoLava1998 said:

It should get around 30 low on Witcher III.... seriously if you game normal (a few intensive games and a few Pentium 4-minimum games) it's probably gonna be very good.

Still waiting for benchmarks/reviews to verify this claim. I'm mostly worried about CPU not being able to handle things. It might well get 30fps with GPU but how stable that is and how much it will stutter when screen gets filled with events...

[NunoLava1998]

On 03/06/2016 at 10:14 AM, LoGiCalDrm said:

Still waiting for benchmarks/reviews to verify this claim. I'm mostly worried about CPU not being able to handle things. It might well get 30fps with GPU but how stable that is and how much it will stutter when screen gets filled with events...

The CPU has a IGPU that is very strong (compared to other IGPU's). It is enough for light gaming.

[LogicalDrm]

1 hour ago, NunoLava1998 said:

The CPU has a IGPU that is very strong (compared to other IGPU's). It is enough for light gaming.

You fail to understand me. It's dual core CPU. You would be using dedicated GPU for gaming anyway so having iGPU thats strong means nothing. As a dual core its weaker than any quad core if game is optimized for more cores.

[Praesi]

11PFS in 480p.? Garbage i would say.