Buy or Build?

[Warlock5822]

So I'm looking into getting my younger brother a computer this christmas and need some advice on what hardware to put into it...

 

I'm a student and I live in the UK, my budget is going to be £300-£350.

I have a friend who's old computer I asked to buy which has the following hardware:

 

GPU: 2x R9 270

CPU: A8 6600

Motherboard: Gigabyte (Don't know the model)

PSU: Novatech 1000w

Case: Cooler Master K350

RAM: 8GB (Don't know what brand)

 

I would have to put a HDD in which I have 2 or three old 2.5/3.5" drives lying roung and would also need to get a copy of windows 10 which I'm hoping I'll be able to do with my previous Windows Preview Key Microsoft sent me a year  or so ago.

 

As the title suggests I could also buy and build up a new PC from scratch and would love some suggestions on what hardware to use.

Thanks in advance! :3

[Warlock5822]

I already am the family tech support, cant get any worse

[PRTI]

For 300 i would get that PC and try to sell it for 500

[Plavi]

I always prefer the joy of building your own PC. 

[Warlock5822]

4 minutes ago, keNNySOC said:

For 300 i would get that PC and try to sell it for 500

I kinda knew that I'd be robbing him buying it for 300, but I dont have much knowledge of the performance of the stuff thats in there

[PRTI]

Just now, Warlock5822 said:

I kinda knew that I'd be robbing him buying it for 300, but I dont have much knowledge of the performance of the stuff thats in there

Well what games does he play and the resolution...for 300 if he just wants to sell it id get it

[Warlock5822]

Just now, keNNySOC said:

Well what games does he play and the resolution...for 300 if he just wants to sell it id get it

knew there was something I forgot to mention, he's probably only gonna be playing on a 1920x1080 TV which is like 32" big. He likes stuff like warthunder, CS Go, DOOM, Gary's Mod, Star Trek online.

 

A decent little mix of stuff

[Warlock5822]

Maybe Kerbal Space Program and Dawn of War stuff too. He currently plays on an XBOX One so anything on PC should be better than what he has now

[PRTI]

11 minutes ago, Warlock5822 said:

knew there was something I forgot to mention, he's probably only gonna be playing on a 1920x1080 TV which is like 32" big. He likes stuff like warthunder, CS Go, DOOM, Gary's Mod, Star Trek online.

 

A decent little mix of stuff

Id honestly get the PC for 300 and then sell it for 520-550 and add a little more and for 550 you can build a really good PC

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6400 2.7GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£164.36 @ More Computers)
Motherboard: MSI H110M Pro-VD Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£48.80 @ BT Shop)
Memory: Kingston FURY 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  (£34.99 @ Novatech)
Storage: Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£54.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£42.99 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon RX 460 4GB NITRO Video Card  (£125.48 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: Fractal Design Core 2300 ATX Mid Tower Case  (£42.22 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Corsair CSM 450W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£42.24 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £556.07
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-21 18:44 BST+0100

 

Able to play every game at decent fps at good settings no problem + comes with a SSD for the boot and fast load times

[Warlock5822]

Good suggestion I'll have a think about it and thank you for the parts list I might just end up using it

[aries757]

On 9/21/2016 at 10:35 AM, Warlock5822 said:

knew there was something I forgot to mention, he's probably only gonna be playing on a 1920x1080 TV which is like 32" big. He likes stuff like warthunder, CS Go, DOOM, Gary's Mod, Star Trek online.

 

A decent little mix of stuff

#garry'smodforlife