Low budget build

[xAssassin124x]

My friend wants to get herself a fairly low end pc just to do work and play some games like minecraft and gmod. I have no idea what to recommend for her £500 budget. All she knows is she wants wifi in it and doesn't intend to play the latest games. Any reccomendations for pre built machines or parts lists?

[MicrosoftGuru]

WHAT QUALITY TEXTURES AND CHUNKS

you could play Minecraft at thousands and thousands of FPS but at 2 Chunks and low textures, while at 12 chunks it could be at 50 fps.

Whats the workload?

What extra features do you want? NVME? Skylake or Haswell? AMD or INTEL?

IM DONE WITH THESE THREADS!

[xAssassin124x]

Well I assume fancy and a playable amount of chunks, at best she'd use photoshop but not for any high res work, I don't think she cares about any extra features or what brand of cpu is running it and if you're done with these threads you don't need to reply

[Djxinator]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor  (£98.99 @ Novatech)
Motherboard: MSI B150I GAMING PRO AC Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£85.89 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston FURY 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  (£52.37 @ BT Shop)
Storage: PNY CS1311 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£52.97 @ CCL Computers)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 950 2GB Video Card  (£120.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Cooler Master Elite 110 Mini ITX Tower Case  (£39.55 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 430W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£43.17 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £493.93
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-07-11 20:58 BST+0100

 

The above build is capable of running pretty much any game with medium to high settings @ 1080p

 

Minecraft / GMod will be a breeze - it has the added benefit of being mini ITX, thanks in part to the WiFI requirement which limited the mobo choice to ITX boards almost exclusively.

[xAssassin124x]

14 minutes ago, Djxinator said:

The above build is capable of running pretty much any game with medium to high settings @ 1080p

 

Minecraft / GMod will be a breeze - it has the added benefit of being mini ITX, thanks in part to the WiFI requirement which limited the mobo choice to ITX boards almost exclusively.

Thanks!

I'll probably have to build it for her (which isn't really an issue) because it'd be her first build. I'll run this by her.

[Dark]

18 minutes ago, Djxinator said:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor  (£98.99 @ Novatech)
Motherboard: MSI B150I GAMING PRO AC Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£85.89 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston FURY 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  (£52.37 @ BT Shop)
Storage: PNY CS1311 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£52.97 @ CCL Computers)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 950 2GB Video Card  (£120.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Cooler Master Elite 110 Mini ITX Tower Case  (£39.55 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 430W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£43.17 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £493.93
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-07-11 20:58 BST+0100

 

The above build is capable of running pretty much any game with medium to high settings @ 1080p

 

Minecraft / GMod will be a breeze - it has the added benefit of being mini ITX, thanks in part to the WiFI requirement which limited the mobo choice to ITX boards almost exclusively.

I'd spend less on 8GB and look for a gpu bump.

[Djxinator]

3 minutes ago, Dark said:

I'd spend less on 8GB and look for a gpu bump.

I was thinking that could be a possibility but I don't know how much RAM minecraft uses, I had a feeling it was pretty CPU/RAM intensive.

[EDIT] Pretty sure the board only has two slots, I figure it would be better to stick with 2x8 if this build is gonna be sticking around for a while.

[xAssassin124x]

2 minutes ago, Djxinator said:

I was thinking that could be a possibility but I don't know how much RAM minecraft uses, I had a feeling it was pretty CPU/RAM intensive.

I have 8 in my rig and it doesn't feel like it needs more.

[Dark]

4 minutes ago, xAssassin124x said:

I have 8 in my rig and it doesn't feel like it needs more.

I guess it just depends on what you're using it for.

[Djxinator]

2 minutes ago, Dark said:

I guess it just depends on what you're using it for.

 

I recently moved from 8GB DDR3 to 32GB DDR4

Now I can finally leave msconfig alone and let all of my pointless bloatware run at startup.