First pc build help

[Harry_95]

I have recently lost my laptop and have decided to just go for a pc as I never moved my laptop from the desk anyway. I have created a build on pc part picker as I would like to be able to game on It but wanted one on a budget. I mainly play console but would like a pc to smoothly run games like Total War and Age of Empires. How does this build shape up and if so is there any way j could get it cheaper or if there's anything thay needa changing
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/p8gMLk

 

[turkey3_scratch]

Age of Empires is my favorite! Fellow AOE player.

If I'm going to be honest with you, Age of Empires is a very heavy single-threaded game. You will benefit more from an Intel processor. I also changed the power supply.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Pentium G4400 3.3GHz Dual-Core Processor (£51.72 @ Dabs)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B150M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£65.76 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (£40.96 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GT 740 2GB Video Card (£68.98 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Aerocool Strike-X One ATX Mid Tower Case (£31.08 @ More Computers)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£52.80 @ Aria PC)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/RSBS DVD/CD Writer (£14.99 @ Novatech)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit)
Monitor: Hannspree HE225DPB 21.5" Monitor (£76.48 @ Dabs)
Keyboard: Cooler Master CM Storm Devastator Gaming Bundle Wired Gaming Keyboard w/Optical Mouse (£25.48 @ Aria PC)
Total: £428.25
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-21 02:46 GMT+0000

Oh, and let me change that video card.

 

[turkey3_scratch]

Here, I made the video card better. This one has GDDR5 memory. A bit more money, but you'll be much happier off.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Pentium G4400 3.3GHz Dual-Core Processor (£51.72 @ Dabs)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B150M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£65.76 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (£40.96 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Zotac GeForce GT 740 2GB Video Card (£74.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Aerocool Strike-X One ATX Mid Tower Case (£31.08 @ More Computers)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£52.80 @ Aria PC)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/RSBS DVD/CD Writer (£14.99 @ Novatech)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit)
Monitor: Hannspree HE225DPB 21.5" Monitor (£76.48 @ Dabs)
Keyboard: Cooler Master CM Storm Devastator Gaming Bundle Wired Gaming Keyboard w/Optical Mouse (£25.48 @ Aria PC)
Total: £434.26
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-21 02:49 GMT+0000

 

[KKAW]

I have recently lost my laptop and have decided to just go for a pc as I never moved my laptop from the desk anyway. I have created a build on pc part picker as I would like to be able to game on It but wanted one on a budget. I mainly play console but would like a pc to smoothly run games like Total War and Age of Empires. How does this build shape up and if so is there any way j could get it cheaper or if there's anything thay needa changing
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/p8gMLk

The Corsair CX PSU is very poor quality, if you are on a tight buget the EVGA W1 430W is a bit better quality.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor (£95.99 @ Novatech)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B150M-HD3 DDR3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£52.80 @ Dabs)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Blue 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£29.80 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£37.14 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 950 2GB Video Card (£121.98 @ Ebuyer)
Case: Thermaltake Versa H22 Window ATX Mid Tower Case (£26.59 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: EVGA 430W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply (£29.99 @ Aria PC)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£10.98 @ Ebuyer)
Monitor: BenQ GL2023A 60Hz 19.5" Monitor (£64.66 @ Amazon UK)
Keyboard: Cooler Master CM Storm Devastator Gaming Bundle Wired Gaming Keyboard w/Optical Mouse (£25.48 @ Aria PC)
Total: £495.41
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-21 02:59 GMT+0000

You will have an amazing experience with this build.

 

[turkey3_scratch]

That EVGA 430W is far worse than the Corsair CX. It's the poorest EVGA PSU on the market, I'd recommend the CX any day, but frankly neither are good. And KKAW he needs an OS, so you're budget needs to go down, like, $170 since you went overbudget anyway.

The games he plays do not need a GTX 950. Not sure if you ever played them, but they are quite old mostly and can run on a cheaper graphics card. And as I said anyway, you went over his initial build and took out the OS, so you upped it to basically $590.

 

[kwa-e]

Age of Empires is my favorite! Fellow AOE player.

If I'm going to be honest with you, Age of Empires is a very heavy single-threaded game. You will benefit more from an Intel processor. I also changed the power supply.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Pentium G4400 3.3GHz Dual-Core Processor (£51.72 @ Dabs)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B150M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£65.76 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (£40.96 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GT 740 2GB Video Card (£68.98 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Aerocool Strike-X One ATX Mid Tower Case (£31.08 @ More Computers)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£52.80 @ Aria PC)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/RSBS DVD/CD Writer (£14.99 @ Novatech)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit)
Monitor: Hannspree HE225DPB 21.5" Monitor (£76.48 @ Dabs)
Keyboard: Cooler Master CM Storm Devastator Gaming Bundle Wired Gaming Keyboard w/Optical Mouse (£25.48 @ Aria PC)
Total: £428.25
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-21 02:46 GMT+0000

Oh, and let me change that video card.

We dont have an HDD here though.

 

[Harry_95]

So I've updated it with people's ideas etc.
Will this build be able to run the AoE and Total War games with fairly decent graphics and smoothly?
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Pentium G4400 3.3GHz Dual-Core Processor (£51.72 @ Dabs)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B150M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£65.76 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (£40.96 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£37.14 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Zotac GeForce GT 740 2GB Video Card (£74.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Aerocool Strike-X One ATX Mid Tower Case (£31.08 @ More Computers)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£52.80 @ Aria PC)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/RSBS DVD/CD Writer (£14.99 @ Novatech)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit)
Monitor: Hannspree HE225DPB 21.5" Monitor (£76.48 @ Dabs)
Keyboard: Cooler Master CM Storm Devastator Gaming Bundle Wired Gaming Keyboard w/Optical Mouse (£25.48 @ Aria PC)
Total: £471.40
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-21 09:30 GMT+0000

 

[KKAW]

That EVGA 430W is far worse than the Corsair CX. It's the poorest EVGA PSU on the market, I'd recommend the CX any day, but frankly neither are good. And KKAW he needs an OS, so you're budget needs to go down, like, $170 since you went overbudget anyway.

The games he plays do not need a GTX 950. Not sure if you ever played them, but they are quite old mostly and can run on a cheaper graphics card. And as I said anyway, you went over his initial build and took out the OS, so you upped it to basically $590.

The EVGA W1 is Tier 3
Corsair CX is Tier 4

Care to explain?

 

[turkey3_scratch]

That EVGA 430W is far worse than the Corsair CX. It's the poorest EVGA PSU on the market, I'd recommend the CX any day, but frankly neither are good. And KKAW he needs an OS, so you're budget needs to go down, like, $170 since you went overbudget anyway.

The games he plays do not need a GTX 950. Not sure if you ever played them, but they are quite old mostly and can run on a cheaper graphics card. And as I said anyway, you went over his initial build and took out the OS, so you upped it to basically $590.

The EVGA W1 is Tier 3
Corsair CX is Tier 4

Care to explain?

Tier lists are just tier lists. The CX has much better ripple suppression. The CX 430 has 0.5% voltage regulation on the 12V rail. The EVGA has 2.8%. The CX has about 40mv of ripple on the 12V rail. The EVGA has around 65mv. The EVGA also fails to meet 80 Plus certifcation while the CX does not. Both of them have crappy capacitors. Also, the EVGA is only rated to deliver its full wattage at 25C, which is really low for a PSU.

Point be told, it's not good to get either, and the Tier List is not perfect.