Build ideas and help

[George2345]

Hi, my friend is looking to build a system in September for £350 (maximum) and then spend another £200 at Christmas on upgrades. What would you guys and gals suggest?
I've tried telling him he would get a better deal waiting till Christmas to spend it all but he wants to do it that way. So again I ask what would suggest and what kind of performance would he get?
He's looking to play games like
CSGO
Minecraft
Rocket league
And then down the line moving on to more taxing games.

Thanks,

George

 

[FD2Raptor]

Look for 2nd hand Ivy Bridge parts.

CPU: i5 3470/3570 or higher. Stock cooling should be sufficient. ARCTIC - Freezer 7 Pro if the 2ndhand seller provide just the chip only.
MB: B75 or Z77 board, 4 DIMM slots preferred.
2x4GB DDR3 1600 CL9. 2x8GB preferred but possibly not enough budget for this.

A cheap £20-30 ATX/mATX case; could be 2nd hand.

New budget tier PSU: Corsair CXM450W or be quiet! Pure Power 10 400W.

Reuse HDD if possible.

Then save any leftovers £ for the Christmas upgrade on the best GPU you can get then.

Gaming will mostly be on low/med until that GPU upgrade, but at least, on a whole it shouldn't require further upgrade (bar the potential RAM limitation in some demanding titles) in the near future (1-1.5 year after the GPU addition).

The new parts path is just too unfeasible and isn't economic as it would require far too many low/bottom end parts, that could just manage to do modern titles at medium and consequentially will require upgrading far too soon to make sense for that budget.

 

[George2345]

Look for 2nd hand Ivy Bridge parts.

CPU: i5 3470/3570 or higher. Stock cooling should be sufficient. ARCTIC - Freezer 7 Pro if the 2ndhand seller provide just the chip only.
MB: B75 or Z77 board, 4 DIMM slots preferred.
2x4GB DDR3 1600 CL9. 2x8GB preferred but possibly not enough budget for this.

A cheap £20-30 ATX/mATX case; could be 2nd hand.

New budget tier PSU: Corsair CXM450W or be quiet! Pure Power 10 400W.

Reuse HDD if possible.

Then save any leftovers £ for the Christmas upgrade on the best GPU you can get then.

Gaming will mostly be on low/med until that GPU upgrade, but at least, on a whole it shouldn't require further upgrade (bar the potential RAM limitation in some demanding titles) in the near future (1-1.5 year after the GPU addition).

The new parts path is just too unfeasible and isn't economic as it would require far too many low/bottom end parts, that could just manage to do modern titles at medium and consequentially will require upgrading far too soon to make sense for that budget.

Okay thanks i was thinking about something like that, so are you saying to use the iGPU until christmas?
I was quite disappointed because for £575 he could build a nice r5 1400 and gtx 1050ti with 8gb of ram at 3000mhz but hes not allowed to keep money from birthday for christmas