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My name is Bop
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Hi I am new to Computer building and I am looking to build my first gaming pc. I have a budget of £200 and I was wondering if anyone had any ideas what the best cheap gaming pc build would be including all parts from the Case and power supply to the graphics card and ram. I know that I am looking at a ddr3 system and I was thinking of using the AMD F8350 cpu with 8 cores at a speed of 4ghz but apart from that I genuinely have no idea. 

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The FX platform is absolutely not worth buying now. You're better off starting with a Ryzen 1200 or 1300 perhaps but you will need to up that budget somewhat. Alternatively, look at older Xeon CPU's which game well and are really cheap. This might give you some ideas:
 

 

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you want to build an entire "gaming" pc for 200 dollars? considering FX line up...?

 

Wanna know what? just buy a console, a x360 or PS3... cheap games nowadays... cheap all... it isn't worth putting together some crappy pc in my honest opinion when for the same $ a last gen console will give better experience.

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14 minutes ago, My name is Bop said:

i cant upgrade my budget

Then watch the video and think about going the same route. You can put together a capable gaming pc that way,  with a Xeon processor for around your budget but most of it will need to go on RAM and the GPU.

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buy used parts.

building a gaming pc with just $200 (new parts)is a waste of money, and you won't have that much fun playing games anyways. so save like 400 dollar and you can built something a lot better.

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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-Compaq-Pro-6200-Quad-Core-i5-2400-3-10GHz-Custom-RAM-and-HDD-Win-10-Pro/222764268909?hash=item33ddc8fd6d:m:mnV1kRADJbi1CJIagJB__iw 110 pounds(8gb and 500gb HDD)

https://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Graphics+Cards/NVIDIA+GeForce/GeForce+GTX+1050/EVGA+NVIDIA+GeForce+GTX+1050+2GB+SC+Gaming+Graphics+Card?productId=66839&utm_source=uk.pcpartpicker.com&utm_medium=referral 103 pounds

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56 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

you want to build an entire "gaming" pc for 200 dollars? considering FX line up...?

 

Wanna know what? just buy a console, a x360 or PS3... cheap games nowadays... cheap all... it isn't worth putting together some crappy pc in my honest opinion when for the same $ a last gen console will give better experience.

Totally agree. You should at least have 300 $ on hand for a pc to be worthwhile. 

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200eur is waaaay too low for anything decent these days, you'd have to go with mostly used parts and it still wouldn't be enough...

 

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4 hours ago, My name is Bop said:

i cant upgrade my budget

check techyescity on youtube. That guy is the budget build king

 

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