Build recomendations

[tricksta555]

i would like to build a gaming rig but my buget is around £250 pounds. can i be recomended some specs.

Thanks

 

[geekapproved]

Fill out the new build form in the new build section.

 

[cats_Paw]

i dont know if 250 pounds can qualify as "gaming rig" to be honest.

 

[farrengottu]

you have two options for that price. decent but not very upgradable or slightly worst and easily upgradable.
first for not easily upgradable. you can get an A series AMD processor it comes with a pretty decent video card with it. you can play most recent games with very playable frame rates at medium settings at 1280x1024 or so resolution. http://www.anandtech.com/show/4476/amd-a83850-review/5
you would need the right sales to pull off such a system for £250 more like £300.

my favorite build for absolute budget gaming is with a cheap socket 1155 H61 mobo, a pentium G840 processor(its a touch slower than the i3 2100 and doesn't have quicksync), a 4GB dual channel kit of ddr3 1333, cheapest case power supply combo. which leaves me about £100-£150 for video. then get the best card you can. you should have enough for either a radeon 6850, 6890, 6950 or a GTX 560, 560ti.

you can check here http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2011-gaming-graphics-charts/benchmarks,123.html
for performance comparison in games you might care about. keep in mind you will get less frames per second than it shows there since they test with a better processor. but you should get between 70-90% the performance.

if you need to include windows, a monitor, a keyboard and a mouse in that system. then you cant make a gaming system for that money. you would have to drop the graphics card and use intel graphics. which arent horrible anymore but still not very good.

 

[tricksta555]

my favorite build for absolute budget gaming is with a cheap socket 1155 H61 mobo, a pentium G840 processor(its a touch slower than the i3 2100 and doesn't have quicksync), a 4GB dual channel kit of ddr3 1333, cheapest case power supply combo. which leaves me about £100-£150 for video. then get the best card you can. you should have enough for either a radeon 6850, 6890, 6950 or a GTX 560, 560ti.

exact models plsease

 

[farrengottu]

ah thats a lot of linking. and im in the US so useful links are unlikely. i dont know where you old world people shop.

 

[tricksta555]

i prefere novatech.com

 

[tricksta555]

i mean http://www.novatech.co.uk

 

[farrengottu]

the processor is out of stock but has some at the suppliers,
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/prods/components/processors/intelpentiumdualcore/Intel/BX80623G840.html

mobo
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/prods/components/motherboards/intel1155h61chipsetmotherboards/Asrock/90-MXGHP0-A0UAYZ.html

ram, this is the cheapest dual channel kit that supports 1.5v but i like G.skill.
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/prods/components/memory-pc/ddr3-pc3-10666/1333mhz/G.Skill/F3-10666CL8D-4GBRM.html

HDD, i figured 500GB would be my minimum for budget. a smaller drive only saves you a couple pounds.
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/prods/components/harddrives-internal/sata500gbto1tb/WesternDigital/WD5000AAKX.html

CD/DVD, cheapest burner, but samsung makes good ***.
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/prods/components/opticaldrives/satadvdwriters/Samsung/SH-S222ABBEBE.html

there is a case power supply combo but i dont like it since this site doesnt say what connectors it comes with. could be a gamble.
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/prods/components/cases/cases/Novatech/NOV-PANTH5.html

this leaves 42 for the video card. not enough for anything good really. partially because you guys have higher prices than you should. partly because i forgot about hard drive and cd rom on earlier post.

 

[vexindexin]

Be careful buying cheap PSU's. Since thats the item that's going to be powering all the other items in your PC you don't really wanna cut corners there. In the long run your better off with a well known brand PSU such as Corsair, OCZ, Antec.

 

[farrengottu]

i recommend at least this for video. if you can scrounge up another £60
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/prods/components/atiradeongraphicscards/atihd6700series/sapphire/11189-00-20g.html

otherwise you might have a hard drive and cd rom from an old computer but they would have to be sata not ide drives for the mobo doesnt have ide. cheapest one that does is twice the cost.