£300 gaming pc

[LoreEnforcer420]

I'm looking to build a cheap dual core itx based PC to take to friends houses and byoc and such, so I've been looking into the Pentium range and i want to know whats best the Pentium g630 or the Pentium g2130.

Cheers in advance

 

[JRAtk94]

Do you need OS, monitor, mouse/keyboard etc?

 

[LoreEnforcer420]

No got all that sorted, picked up a cheap 6950 2gb off ebay too, just need to know about the cpus tbh

 

[JRAtk94]

Is this alright? -

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i3-3220 3.3GHz Dual-Core Processor (£87.59 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock H77M-ITX Mini ITX LGA1155 Motherboard (£73.94 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£26.17 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£39.58 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: Cooler Master Elite 120 Advanced (Black) Mini ITX Tower Case (£29.99 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: XFX 450W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (£34.99 @ Maplin Electronics)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer (£13.15 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £305.41

i3 is much better than Pentium, for a number of reasons 😛

 

[LoreEnforcer420]

Looks nice, got a spare drive (as we all do somewhere 😛 ), will 450w be enough to power a large high end card though? and might swap to a bitfenix prodigy, they look sweet

 

[JRAtk94]

Ahh, very well. You can remove that WD Caviar Blue then.

And aiye, the Prodigy is great - the only reason I didn't include it was because it would've gone over the budget 😛

And yes, a 450W XFX PSU will be fine for a 6950, as XFX PSUs are extremely good quality. Don't worry man, I wouldn't choose parts for you if they wouldn't work 😀

 

[LoreEnforcer420]

Does the I3 come with a cooler? i know itll be rubbish cause its intel but it means i dont have to spend haha 😛

 

[JRAtk94]

It does indeed come with a cooler

 

[LoreEnforcer420]

Good, should be a nice little project haha, won't have to break my back every time i go somewhere lifting this nzxt phantom everywhere, which does actually weigh more than a truck :L cheers for all the help

 

[JRAtk94]

Haha, yeah, and the handles on the Prodigy will be handy too 😀

No worries mate. Good luck with your build and enjoy 😀