PC from Scratch

[Michael_396]

I am looking to build a PC from scratch have a budget of £550 to buy everything but a graphics card this I have for free its a pretty decent one costing about £300. Just need idea's on stuff like processors ect...?

I'd like to runs games mostly so was thinking along the lines of the intel i5

thoughts would be appreciated....?

 

[timeconsumer]

Which graphics card do you have right now?

 

[jjbtexas]

i5 6500 and 6600 are great parts.

 

[Michael_396]

Which graphics card do you have right now?

MSI NVIDIA GTX 970 Gaming Twin Frozr HDMI DVI-I DP Graphics Card (4GB, PCI Express, DDR5, 256 Bit)

 

[timeconsumer]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£181.90 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Gigabyte G1.Sniper B7 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£78.34 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Crucial 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (£51.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Crucial MX300 275GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£62.99 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£45.78 @ Misco UK)
Case: Phanteks ECLIPSE P400 ATX Mid Tower Case (£54.51 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: Antec TruePower Classic 550W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply (£54.15 @ BT Shop)
Total: £529.66
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-08-30 22:06 BST+0100

That should do it with money to spare.