Gaming PC for my brother

[dawid1000]

So, I've saved up around £400 for a cheap gaming pc for my brother as he is on console currently and i feel bad for him. I want some ppl to help me select some decent parts for £400 so i can build his first gaming pc with him. I really would appreciate if you could list some decent parts for the budget i have. My only concern is that he really likes fortnite. The problem with that is that the game is quite hard to run in some cases which i dont think would suit this budget thats why im reaching out to forums for professionals to help me.

[MrShinny]

Fortnite is hard to run compared to other games. For 400 euros I can put together a decent, nice looking build for him.

 

It won't run ideally, but will save room for upgrades, using the 2400g.

 

Give me a couple of minutes to put it together.

[dawid1000]

2 minutes ago, MrShinny said:

Fortnite is hard to run compared to other games. For 400 euros I can put together a decent, nice looking build for him.

 

It won't run ideally, but will save room for upgrades, using the 2400g.

 

Give me a couple of minutes to put it together.

Ok thank you very much.

[MrShinny]

2 minutes ago, dawid1000 said:

Ok thank you very much.

Will you need a monitor, operating system?

 

Does he already have a keyboard and mouse?

[Mav2124]

It might be worth looking to see if you can get a 2nd hand Dell Precision tower for about £200 then spend the money a decent used graphics card. GTX 970 are about £120 at the moment, should leave you about £80 for more RAM and SSD etc.

[dawid1000]

2 minutes ago, MrShinny said:

Will you need a monitor, operating system?

 

Does he already have a keyboard and mouse?

I have a keyboard and mouse and a bad monitor but i was thinking of purchasing a monitor a few weeks after the PC build. The operating system is also not necessary as i have many OS's. The only thing i need is the whole PC.

[seon123]

Another used option (and quite a standard suggestion) is a used Optiplex with a 2nd or 3rd gen i5/i7 and some GPU. For new stuff, there's something like this

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2400G 3.6GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£129.59 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Pro4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£66.74 @ CCL Computers)
Memory: Patriot - Viper 4 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  (£83.72 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Crucial - MX500 250GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  (£56.39 @ Amazon UK)
Case: BitFenix - Nova ATX Mid Tower Case  (£22.95 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: be quiet! - Pure Power 10 CM 400W 80+ Silver Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£44.49 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £403.88
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-07-05 13:59 BST+0100

[MrShinny]

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2400G 3.6GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£129.59 @ Aria PC) 
Motherboard: MSI - B350 PC MATE ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£69.99 @ CCL Computers) 
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  (£74.64 @ Ebuyer) 
Storage: Kingston - A400 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£26.39 @ Aria PC) 
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£34.74 @ Aria PC) 
Case: NZXT - S340 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£56.10 @ CCL Computers) 
Power Supply: Corsair - TXM Gold 550W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£70.98 @ CCL Computers) 
Total: £462.43
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-07-05 14:03 BST+0100

 

EDIT: Changed to euros

 

[akram03]

2 minutes ago, MrShinny said:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2400G 3.6GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£129.59 @ Aria PC) 
Motherboard: MSI - B350 PC MATE ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£69.99 @ CCL Computers) 
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  (£74.64 @ Ebuyer) 
Storage: Kingston - A400 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£26.39 @ Aria PC) 
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£34.74 @ Aria PC) 
Case: NZXT - S340 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£56.10 @ CCL Computers) 
Power Supply: Corsair - TXM Gold 550W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£70.98 @ CCL Computers) 
Total: £462.43
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-07-05 14:03 BST+0100

 

EDIT: Changed to euros

 

I agree.

[dawid1000]

2 minutes ago, MrShinny said:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2400G 3.6GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($154.99 @ Newegg Marketplace) 
Motherboard: MSI - B350 PC MATE ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($59.99 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($79.99 @ Corsair) 
Storage: Kingston - A400 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($34.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($43.90 @ OutletPC) 
Case: NZXT - S340 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($49.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Power Supply: Corsair - TXM Gold 550W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($58.98 @ Newegg) 
Total: $482.83
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-07-05 09:02 EDT-0400

 

Should be around 400 euros

 

4 minutes ago, seon123 said:

Another used option (and quite a standard suggestion) is a used Optiplex with a 2nd or 3rd gen i5/i7 and some GPU. For new stuff, there's something like this

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2400G 3.6GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£129.59 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Pro4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£66.74 @ CCL Computers)
Memory: Patriot - Viper 4 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  (£83.72 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Crucial - MX500 250GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  (£56.39 @ Amazon UK)
Case: BitFenix - Nova ATX Mid Tower Case  (£22.95 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: be quiet! - Pure Power 10 CM 400W 80+ Silver Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£44.49 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £403.88
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-07-05 13:59 BST+0100

Thank you guys for the ideas! I'll be sure to contact you with the finished product

[Mav2124]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dell-Precision-T1650-I7-3770-3-4GHz-16GB-Ram-256GB-SSD-500GB-HDD/113089875817?hash=item1a54ae8f69:g:QQwAAOSwnklay4KM

 

Then just grab a graphics card, PC comes with Window 10 Pro license which is sometime forgotten in the price when building.

[MrShinny]

1 minute ago, Mav2124 said:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dell-Precision-T1650-I7-3770-3-4GHz-16GB-Ram-256GB-SSD-500GB-HDD/113089875817?hash=item1a54ae8f69:g:QQwAAOSwnklay4KM

 

Then just grab a graphics card, PC comes with Window 10 Pro license which is sometime forgotten in the price when building.

He said he already had some OS.

[seon123]

3 minutes ago, MrShinny said:

Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  (£74.64 @ Ebuyer) 

That is going to reduce the performance by a lot. Single channel and slow RAM won't really do well at all with an APU

[MrShinny]

2 minutes ago, dawid1000 said:

 

Thank you guys for the ideas! I'll be sure to contact you with the finished product

OK. Good luck!

[MrShinny]

1 minute ago, seon123 said:

That is going to reduce the performance by a lot. Single channel and slow RAM won't really do well at all with an APU

Leaves more room for upgrading I guess. Kind of overlooked that. My bad.

[dawid1000]

Thank you all for your contribution  

[userzero]

One of these and pop a decent GPU in it I reckon https://uk.webuy.com/product-detail?id=sdesgiggbbxi501b&categoryName=desktops---windows&superCatName=computing&title=gigabyte-gb-bxi5%2Fi5-4570%2F16gb-ram%2F250gb-hdd%2Fdvd-rw%2Fwindows-10%2Fb

[userzero]

Maybe slap one of these little mummas in it https://uk.webuy.com/product-detail?id=sgranvi1060gtx3gba&categoryName=graphics-cards---pci-e&superCatName=computing&title=nvidia-geforce-gtx-1060-3gb-gddr5