Good Pc for £300

[AliRidha]

I want a good gaming pc for 300pound my pc will be completely for gaming and I am aiming for 60fps on medium-high
Will be playing total war bf4 and arma

 

[Eduello]

Does your budget include the monitor, OS, keyboard, and the mouse?

 

[BustaRhymes]

I'm not sure your budget is going to build you a pc unless you already have a whole bunch of stuff.

You might be in console territory with your budget.

 

[AliRidha]

I have the os, monitor keyboard and mouse

 

[CallumP227]

Really your looking at about £400 for a entry level gaming pc, this one isnt bad, but its £420 and with a new bios coming from Asus you will be overclock it, but if you do not wish to overclock then dont get the cpu cooler and save your self £25
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/9MfjNG

 

[Eduello]

This should do OK in BF4:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Celeron G1820 2.7GHz Dual-Core Processor (£26.47 @ CCL Computers)
Motherboard: ASRock H81 Pro BTC ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£29.99 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£55.34 @ Scan.co.uk)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£40.31 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R7 260 1GB Video Card (£77.92 @ CCL Computers)
Case: Thermaltake Versa H21 ATX Mid Tower Case (£26.24 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£35.00 @ Ebuyer)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-14 DVD/CD Writer (£11.27 @ Scan.co.uk)
Total: £302.54
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

 

[AliRidha]

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/Jjp4Bm
hows this?

 

[Eduello]

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/Jjp4Bm
hows this?

The PSU is bad and you need more than 4GB of RAM, preferably 8GB.

 

[AliRidha]

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/Jjp4Bm
hows this?

The PSU is bad and you need more than 4GB of RAM, preferably 8GB.

how is the psu bad? corsair is a pretty good brand.... and has bronze efficiency

 

[Eduello]

Corsair doesn't make their own PSUs. That particular PSU uses bad capacitors that can cause heat and longevity issues.

 

[AliRidha]

ok then hows this
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/7rDNgs

 

[Eduello]

ok then hows this
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/7rDNgs

That should be good.

Be aware that you probably won't be able upgrade the CPU without changing the motherboard though.

 

[AliRidha]

This should do OK in BF4:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Celeron G1820 2.7GHz Dual-Core Processor (£26.47 @ CCL Computers)
Motherboard: ASRock H81 Pro BTC ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£29.99 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£55.34 @ Scan.co.uk)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£40.31 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R7 260 1GB Video Card (£77.92 @ CCL Computers)
Case: Thermaltake Versa H21 ATX Mid Tower Case (£26.24 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£35.00 @ Ebuyer)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-14 DVD/CD Writer (£11.27 @ Scan.co.uk)
Total: £302.54
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

isn't the celeron cpu a bit too weak and won't it bottleneck with the gpu

 

[Eduello]

The Celeron is weak, but you'll have to choose between a fairly weak CPU that can be upgraded and a little better CPU that can't be upgraded.

 

[dasulman]

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/mYdYQ7
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/mYdYQ7/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor (£47.99 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock H81 Pro BTC ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£29.99 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Kingston HyperX T1 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£38.37 @ PC World Business)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£35.94 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R7 260X 2GB Video Card (£85.00 @ Amazon UK)
Case: NZXT Source 210 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case (£31.18 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£35.00 @ Ebuyer)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHDS118-04 DVD/CD Drive (£9.58 @ Scan.co.uk)
Total: £313.05
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

 

[AH88]

A few things to note..

I would drop to 4GB ram, if you're not playing in Ultra then you'll be ok. Need to know as well though if you're running in 720p or 1080p? That'll save you £20-£25.

I'd also not bother with a 1TB drive. 320GB is sufficient for a handful of games, that will save you £20+.

Do you also really need an optical drive? Sure they're only £10 but on such a limited budget that could go elsewhere.

In total that'll save you roughly £50 that you can spread across your CPU/GPU where you'll actually see real results for that money.

The pentium is a great shout and for price/performance over an i3 as you won't really be seeing massive increases in performance until you hit the cheapest i5 which is more than double the cost so that's a bit out of budget for you.

I'd be more inclined to stick that £50 towards a better GPU. You could probably stretch it to a GTX 750TI or R7 265.

Deffo go with the LGA1150 route though. If you find the pentium isn't good enough in a few years time on more demanding titles then you can pop in an i5.

Only downside though is 4GB isn't really "future proofing" very well, assuming you pick up a cheap H81 motherboard there's no room for expansion without completely replacing your 4GB memory modules with larger ones.

 

[AliRidha]

■ pentium is only duel core....won't that affect the performance and also isn't the x4 750k better?
If I had to go with pentium what one do you recommend?