Best PC for £450

[caveman178355]

A friend of mine is on a very tight budget and i was wondering what is the best PC you can build for £450 (£ not $). He will be gaming on it and not much else.

 

[davidarad02]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor (£74.89 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£51.00 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Kingston Fury Black Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£49.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£41.79 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 280 3GB TWIN FROZR Video Card (£149.14 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: Corsair SPEC-01 RED ATX Mid Tower Case (£37.91 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: XFX 650W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£61.62 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £466.34
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-02 17:41 BST+0100

 

[davidarad02]

This is better for gaming, I would only go for Fx instead if the OPs friend wanted to do video editing and multi core tasks

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4150 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor (£84.16 @ Scan.co.uk)
Motherboard: ASRock H97 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£60.34 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill Ares Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£51.29 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£38.34 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 280 3GB TWIN FROZR Video Card (£149.14 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: Zalman Z3 Plus ATX Mid Tower Case (£26.99 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£50.95 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £461.21
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-02 17:44 BST+0100

most new games now-adays need a true quad-core at launch, so until the devs of whatever game that came out get a patch to support i3's, FX 6-cores will work out of the box.

 

[LucoTF]

If you need windows in that £450:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4130 3.4GHz Dual-Core Processor (£89.97 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 V2 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£38.17 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Kingston Fury Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£48.65 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£38.34 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R7 260X 2GB Core Edition Video Card (£86.39 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: Zalman Z3 Plus ATX Mid Tower Case (£26.99 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Antec 550W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply (£44.32 @ More Computers)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£74.34 @ Aria PC)
Total: £447.17
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-02 17:52 BST+0100

 

[LucoTF]

most new games now-adays need a true quad-core at launch, so until the devs of whatever game that came out get a patch to support i3's, FX 6-cores will work out of the box.

Both far cry 4 and dragon age inquisition work fine on an i3 with no patch needed. I'm not aware of any other games that won't run on dual cores.

 

[davidarad02]

most new games now-adays need a true quad-core at launch, so until the devs of whatever game that came out get a patch to support i3's, FX 6-cores will work out of the box.

Both far cry 4 and dragon age inquisition work fine on an i3 with no patch needed. I'm not aware of any other games that won't run on dual cores.

I dont know much about dragon age inquisition, but far cry 4 was one of those games that needed a patch to work with an i3.

 

[caveman178355]

This is better for gaming, I would only go for Fx instead if the OPs friend wanted to do video editing and multi core tasks

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4150 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor (£84.16 @ Scan.co.uk)
Motherboard: ASRock H97 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£60.34 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill Ares Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£51.29 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£38.34 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 280 3GB TWIN FROZR Video Card (£149.14 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: Zalman Z3 Plus ATX Mid Tower Case (£26.99 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£50.95 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £461.21
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-02 17:44 BST+0100

He wants to play GTA V when it comes out so would the amd not be better for that and he might do some video editing (for youtube)

 

[davidarad02]

This is better for gaming, I would only go for Fx instead if the OPs friend wanted to do video editing and multi core tasks

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4150 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor (£84.16 @ Scan.co.uk)
Motherboard: ASRock H97 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£60.34 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill Ares Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£51.29 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£38.34 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 280 3GB TWIN FROZR Video Card (£149.14 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: Zalman Z3 Plus ATX Mid Tower Case (£26.99 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£50.95 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £461.21
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-02 17:44 BST+0100

He wants to play GTA V when it comes out so would the amd not be better for that and he might do some video editing (for youtube)

in that case, my suggestion will be the best.

 

[LucoTF]

most new games now-adays need a true quad-core at launch, so until the devs of whatever game that came out get a patch to support i3's, FX 6-cores will work out of the box.

Both far cry 4 and dragon age inquisition work fine on an i3 with no patch needed. I'm not aware of any other games that won't run on dual cores.

I dont know much about dragon age inquisition, but far cry 4 was one of those games that needed a patch to work with an i3.

Please tell me where you've read this because every source I've seen has confirmed that it works fine on an i3 with no patch needed.