£400 Gaming PC

[tomwright366]

Hi, I'm wondering what would be the best budget PC for £400. I don't need an OS or an optical drive.
I was thinking I should get the Pentium G3258, with the R9 280x and also the MSI PC Mate motherboard as I'm looking to over clock the CPU (who isn't with a G3258?).
The whole build I have thought about making now is..


CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor (£48.85 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: MSI Z97 PC MATE ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£65.65 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston Savage 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£42.58 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£38.34 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 280X 3GB Double Dissipation Video Card (£158.81 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: Xigmatek Recon ATX Mid Tower Case (£22.78 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply (£33.78 @ Aria PC)
Total: £410.79
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-06-04 12:11 BST+0100

Please, suggest any changes I could make. Thanks in advance

 

[Nextg_Rival]

Normally you might want to have your PSU to be at least 80+Bronze, even though EVGA is a really good brand. Apart from that, the G3258 might struggle with some newer games that require 4 threads (4 cores or 2 multithreaded cores). If you are worried about that, you might want to get an i3 4160 instead, in which case you could also go for a different motherboard if you feel like it.

 

[tomwright366]

Nextg_Rival, thanks for your answer. I was thinking that 2 threads weren't enough, however in the next month or two I'm going to be upgrading to an i5 4690k and keep my motherboard. Sorry I didn't include that. Also I watched a YouTube video and the guy was playing BF4 64 player servers and getting 100+ fps with the G3258 over clocked to 4.5 GHz, so for a month or two, do you think this will be fine also without a cooler?

 

[Nextg_Rival]

Nextg_Rival, thanks for your answer. I was thinking that 2 threads weren't enough, however in the next month or two I'm going to be upgrading to an i5 4690k and keep my motherboard. Sorry I didn't include that. Also I watched a YouTube video and the guy was playing BF4 64 player servers and getting 100+ fps with the G3258 over clocked to 4.5 GHz, so for a month or two, do you think this will be fine also without a cooler?

If you want to overclock the G3258, DEFINITELY get a cooler, or it probably won't last a month or two, haha. The Zalman Optima CNPS10X is very cheap and efficient. Try that. Otherwise, yeah, if you are upgrading to an i5 4690k, then take the G3258 now.

 

[tomwright366]

Nextg_Rival, haha. Thanks man.

 

[sora]

Normally you might want to have your PSU to be at least 80+Bronze, even though EVGA is a really good brand. Apart from that, the G3258 might struggle with some newer games that require 4 threads (4 cores or 2 multithreaded cores). If you are worried about that, you might want to get an i3 4160 instead, in which case you could also go for a different motherboard if you feel like it.

+1; That EVGA power supply though is not bad at all.