gaming system budget

[trydowave]

Hi all. Just wanted some advice on these components. Ive got a very small budet of around £350 for a gaming pc. Case, keyboards, hdds etc dont really matter, i can pick them up anywhere. i just need some advice concerning the cpu, motherboard ram and gpu,

Ive been looking at thos bundle
http://www.aria.co.uk/Systems/Bundles/AMD+Pro+Overclocked+Bundles/Gladiator+AMD+Pro+4+FX4300+4.2GHz+OC+Bundle+?productId=61046

Its £209. the rest of the money i can put towards a gpu. Ive been thinking a R9 270X or something similar.

Is this a good use of my money or are there better deals available?

I was reading about another budget gaming system build in a mag recently and it uses an OC Intel Pentium G3258 CPU (Dual Core 3.20GHz, Socket H3 LGA-1150) I think. I thought the FX4300 would still be btter than this right? The G3240 has very good reviews on amazon and is mega cheap.

Thanks
Tony

 

[herrwizo]

Sir, whatever you do, avoiud G3258 like plague. Most recent games require at least 4 cores just to be able to start. As for the FX4300, it is just a very slow processor, so I do not recommend this one as well.

As the base minimum for gaming, I would recommend either any Intel i3 or AMD FX6300. If you go below, it is very likely you will have to upgrade again very soon.

 

[LucoTF]

You mean 4 threads, herwizzo. FC4 still works on an i3.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4130 3.4GHz Dual-Core Processor (£78.79 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI B85M-E33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£37.56 @ CCL Computers)
Memory: Patriot Signature 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£43.45 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£35.94 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R7 260X 2GB Video Card (£86.41 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: Cooler Master K350 ATX Mid Tower Case (£23.99 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£36.00 @ Aria PC)
Total: £342.14
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-01-09 08:49 GMT+0000

 

[herrwizo]

^^ Sorry, yeah, 4 threads.

The build above will do, too bad the budget is so limited. The GPU should be at least 270X and PSu at least 550W to be future-proof (at least in single GPU terms).

 

[LucoTF]

^^ Sorry, yeah, 4 threads.

The build above will do, too bad the budget is so limited. The GPU should be at least 270X and PSu at least 550W to be future-proof (at least in single GPU terms).

It's a tricky budget for sure. I would take the i3/mobo/ram in my build for ~£160 over the aria FX bundle for £209 though.

Good point on the PSU, OP should maybe consider spending an extra £10 on the xfx 550w instead of 450w to make a future GPU upgrade easier

 

[trydowave]

Sir, whatever you do, avoiud G3258 like plague. Most recent games require at least 4 cores just to be able to start. As for the FX4300, it is just a very slow processor, so I do not recommend this one as well.

As the base minimum for gaming, I would recommend either any Intel i3 or AMD FX6300. If you go below, it is very likely you will have to upgrade again very soon.

what about this?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/200935478467

And i can add a graphics later?
What ya think?

 

[LucoTF]

Sir, whatever you do, avoiud G3258 like plague. Most recent games require at least 4 cores just to be able to start. As for the FX4300, it is just a very slow processor, so I do not recommend this one as well.

As the base minimum for gaming, I would recommend either any Intel i3 or AMD FX6300. If you go below, it is very likely you will have to upgrade again very soon.

what about this?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/200935478467

And i can add a graphics later?
What ya think?

The fx-6300 is better. You will never overclock on that motherboard though, and they don't even name the power supply so it's probably not very good - in other words you would have to replace the PSU when you add a graphics card.

 

[trydowave]

I was going to do that anyways
ill ask what mother board it is,, cheers

 

[trydowave]

Hi all. Just brought a system. Heres the specs:

Power Supply : 500 Watt With Power Cable Supplied
Motherboard : Gigabyte 78LMT-USB3
CPU : AMD FX 6300 Six Core CPU (turbo 4.1Ghz)
Hard Drive : 1tb Sata Hard Drive
Memory : 8gb DDR3 1600mhz Branded Memory
Graphics Card : Geforce GTX 750 TI 2gb
Optical Drive : 24x Dual Layer DVD Writer
Connections : 6 x USB 2.0 / 2 x USB 3.0 / LAN / Sound

OK. Im having some troubles... all the drivers have been updated. Done everything (apart from updating bios but since its a new machine I imagine there pretty recent). Installed Dead Island and Im getting worse performance than on my old PC with its AMD 64X2 6000+, 4gb ram and Nvidia 9600GT???

When using the new system and its Nvidia GTX 750ti the game has stuttering and screen tears? Going to try another game.

Can anyone else give me some advice regarding this?

Thanks
Tony