Need Help With Gaming Build

[Shglam]

Hi, I'm 12, and I need serious help. The problem is I live in a family of low-life degenerate apple lovers. Which is bad. I hate apple and thus I feel trapped and enslaved in my family's ignorant and frankly stupid views on technology. I have wanted to build a PC for several years now but it has been frankly impossible because of

a) My family's complete dislike of anything "not beautiful"

b) My low pocket money and no birthday or christmas money and

c) My insatiable obsession with Shopkins

(Just joking about the last one, don't worry)

 

After 5 years I think I may have just under £500 and was wondering if anyone could give me a list of parts I could use( I will also happily buy off eBay) and I will also probably need a mouse and keyboard.

Also if necesary (or possible) I could build a cheaper one now with an APU and add on a GTX 1050 Ti after.

 

Thanks for Reading

[Herman Mcpootis]

os/monitor needed?

[Spotty]

£500 is a decent amount of money to have saved up, good work!

What games are you hoping to play on your new gaming machine?
Depending on what games you are going to be playing, I'd say at that budget your best bet would be an APU as you suggested, with the possibility of adding a dedicated graphics card, such as the GTX1050 Ti later.

Will you also require a monitor (screen) as well?

[dgsddfgdfhgs]

well if your family is apple lover, you should somehow have some budget?? considering the premium of Macs and phones...

anyway, I think this is your build so dont expect it to be very pretty, here is some core parts(ignore if you already have it)

 

Monitor: 24 inch at least

 

CPU: Ryzen 2400g

Mobo: Asrock B450m Pro

DDR4 ram: 2x4Gb 3000hz

Hard drive: 2TB 7200rpm, and add ssd later this year

GPU: GTX1050ti / RTX2050 later this year 

Case: any "pretty" m-atx case

PSU: cx550m

[GoldenLag]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 3 1200 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£72.97 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Pro4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£62.99 @ Ebuyer) 
Memory: Patriot - Viper 4 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  (£79.74 @ CCL Computers) 
Storage: Crucial - MX500 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£51.59 @ Aria PC) 
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£34.74 @ Aria PC) 
Video Card: Sapphire - Radeon R9 290X 4GB Vapor-X Video Card  ($160.00) 
Case: BitFenix - Nova ATX Mid Tower Case  (£31.62 @ Novatech) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£79.98 @ Box Limited) 
Total: £413.63
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-08-28 08:38 BST+0100

 

Made this the other day.

 

Only thing that needs to be sources used it the GPU which should be obtainable for 160£. 

 

@Herman McpootisMcpootis you guode the rest of the way. Im kind of in the middle of class.

 

@Shglam hopefully the case is "apple" enough. Also dont call anyone skum. Only people who call people skum are skum. Some may be uneducated within hardware, but so is 99,5% of the population.

 

[WickedStarfish]

6 minutes ago, GoldenLag said:

hopefully the case is "apple" enough

i was going to suggest a tempered glass built as he said the family dislikes anything that isn't beautiful and man when shopping for cases my friend was over (Loves apple products) and he admitted that the case i was looking at was beautiful, though after adding everything else it probably couldn't be afforded (example of a tempered glass build pictured below)

I get chills just looking at it though the case alone is probably sitting around the budget for the build

[Spotty]

Something such as this might be a good starting point for things to look at, but depending on what games you are hoping to play I may tweak a few things. This is just to give you a general idea of the cost of the parts and what sort of parts you could be looking at.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 3 2200G 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£84.98 @ PC World Business)
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Pro4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£62.99 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  (£93.59 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Crucial - MX500 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£51.59 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£34.74 @ Aria PC)
Case: Fractal Design - Focus G (White) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£47.99 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Corsair - CXM (2015) 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£47.99 @ Amazon UK)
Monitor: AOC - G2260VWQ6 21.5" 1920x1080 75Hz Monitor  (£87.92 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £511.79
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-08-28 08:53 BST+0100

This does not include the cost of an operating system, such as Windows 10. You will need to allow for the cost a copy of that as well.

If you need mouse + keyboard, I'd recommend just grabbing whichever is the cheapest bundled kit on amazon or a local store. Maybe for a future birthday or something you can get a prettier keyboard with RGB if you like, but for now just the cheapest will do.

 

 

10 minutes ago, GoldenLag said:

Total: £413.63
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-08-28 08:38 BST+0100

 

Made this the other day.

 

Only thing that needs to be sources used it the GPU which should be obtainable for 160£. 

Dammit @GoldenLag. Do you have any idea how long I had to stare at that thinking "How the... did he manage to get a system with a graphics card for 160 pounds to come out to only 413 pounds?". I kept going back and looking at my build thinking I accidentally added an extra SSD or extra RAM by mistake for mine to be so much more expensive. Took me way too long to realise the cost of the graphics card isn't included in the PCPartPicker total.

[GoldenLag]

39 minutes ago, Spotty said:

Something such as this might be a good starting point for things to look at, but depending on what games you are hoping to play I may tweak a few things. This is just to give you a general idea of the cost of the parts and what sort of parts you could be looking at.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 3 2200G 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£84.98 @ PC World Business)
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Pro4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£62.99 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  (£93.59 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Crucial - MX500 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£51.59 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£34.74 @ Aria PC)
Case: Fractal Design - Focus G (White) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£47.99 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Corsair - CXM (2015) 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£47.99 @ Amazon UK)
Monitor: AOC - G2260VWQ6 21.5" 1920x1080 75Hz Monitor  (£87.92 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £511.79
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-08-28 08:53 BST+0100

This does not include the cost of an operating system, such as Windows 10. You will need to allow for the cost a copy of that as well.

If you need mouse + keyboard, I'd recommend just grabbing whichever is the cheapest bundled kit on amazon or a local store. Maybe for a future birthday or something you can get a prettier keyboard with RGB if you like, but for now just the cheapest will do.

 

 

Dammit @GoldenLag. Do you have any idea how long I had to stare at that thinking "How the... did he manage to get a system with a graphics card for 160 pounds to come out to only 413 pounds?". I kept going back and looking at my build thinking I accidentally added an extra SSD or extra RAM by mistake for mine to be so much more expensive. Took me way too long to realise the cost of the graphics card isn't included in the PCPartPicker total.

Suddenly it made more sence. I felt somethikg was missing aswell. 

 

Ill reconfigure the build to make the budget work. There original was 500USD. 

 

Ive got a few min. Give me a sec

[GoldenLag]

2 minutes ago, GoldenLag said:

Suddenly it made more sence. I felt somethikg was missing aswell. 

 

Ill reconfigure the build to make the budget work. There original was 500USD. 

 

Ive got a few min. Give me a sec

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 3 1200 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£72.97 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Pro4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£62.99 @ Ebuyer) 
Memory: Patriot - Viper 4 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  (£79.74 @ CCL Computers) 
Storage: Crucial - MX500 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£51.59 @ Aria PC) 
Video Card: MSI - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB GAMING X 4G Video Card  (£169.98 @ Ebuyer) 
Case: BitFenix - Nova ATX Mid Tower Case  (£22.95 @ Aria PC) 
Power Supply: Corsair - CXM (2015) 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£47.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £508.21
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-08-28 09:43 BST+0100

 

Reworked my magic. The GPU is 100% a placeholder. Get a R9 290x for around 150-160£ and your are good. I dont have time to snoop around the web just yet. 

 

@Spotty sorry for your inconvenienses. I assumed it would convert from the US build. In that build it worked out. 

[Spotty]

Just now, GoldenLag said:

@Spotty sorry for your inconvenienses. I assumed it would convert from the US build. In that build it worked out. 

Ah you've had it set in US then switched over to UK and it didn't pick it up? I've had that happen a few times or show the part as $0 if it can't find any local stores selling it. Annoying because if you switch over to a different currency you're not familiar with and don't notice it you think you are getting a really good deal

 

Possible that OP needs a monitor as well as peripherals, as it appears that they don't have a PC they're upgrading from, but we still need confirmation whether or not they require a monitor.

[GoldenLag]

37 minutes ago, Spotty said:

Ah you've had it set in US then switched over to UK and it didn't pick it up? I've had that happen a few times or show the part as $0 if it can't find any local stores selling it. Annoying because if you switch over to a different currency you're not familiar with and don't notice it you think you are getting a really good deal

 

Possible that OP needs a monitor as well as peripherals, as it appears that they don't have a PC they're upgrading from, but we still need confirmation whether or not they require a monitor.

yeah, i forgot that pcp doesnt like it much. (actually its the first time im doing it)

 

if he needs a monitor we could step down the GPU to an HD 7850 or HD 7770. we can fit a generic 100£ monitor into the budget. or we can run with a cheap APU setup.