Hey all! While I'm new to posting here (hence why this thread might be in the wrong area), I have been reading threads on occasion for reviews, opinions and facts when it comes to PC building. As this is my first time building a custom PC, I've been clueless from the very start but after a fortnight of reading, researching and asking friends and followers on Twitter, I think I've found a build I'm comfortable with.
As this is my first PC I'm going in with a budget of ~£450, and as I'm tolerant of low settings I can live with a machine that runs games with poor texture quality so long as it runs at a high frame rate (60 FPS would be great, but as a console gamer for nearly two decades, I can tolerate 30). This is something I can't stress enough - I'm not looking for the best budget parts, but just a decent experience. Something that's better than my god-awful laptop, but good enough to run a fair few games at 40 FPS on Low-Medium settings.
The specs I'm looking at are as follows:
CPU: AMD FX 4350 (4 x 4.2 GHZ)
GPU: AMD Radeon R7 250 - 2 GB - (XFX) - (PCI-E)
RAM: Corsair 8GB XMS3 PC3-10666 1333MHz (1x8GB) (DDR3)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-78LMT/USB3 (AMD 760G)
Sound card: Integrated.
PSU: Corsair 650W PSU
Storage: 1 TB Seagate (1000 GB) SATA-III HDD 7200 RPM 64MB
If you've any questions for me feel free to throw them, and I'll answer them to the best of my abilities! I don't have high expectations, and I'm willing to completely redesign this setup for something better at a similar price. As I won't be building this myself, the site I'll be building this on (Computer Planet) may not have the components some of you might recommend, but I'll be sure to check if they do so I can compare.
While I'm here, I'd also like to ask if sites like Game Debate give accurate readings when comparing one's own rig to that of the Minimum/Recommended settings of the games I check? As I've been using that a lot, I'm just wondering if what its' telling me is helpful.
Thanks for your time, and apologies for the wall of text!
-- Johnbonne.
As this is my first PC I'm going in with a budget of ~£450, and as I'm tolerant of low settings I can live with a machine that runs games with poor texture quality so long as it runs at a high frame rate (60 FPS would be great, but as a console gamer for nearly two decades, I can tolerate 30). This is something I can't stress enough - I'm not looking for the best budget parts, but just a decent experience. Something that's better than my god-awful laptop, but good enough to run a fair few games at 40 FPS on Low-Medium settings.
The specs I'm looking at are as follows:
CPU: AMD FX 4350 (4 x 4.2 GHZ)
GPU: AMD Radeon R7 250 - 2 GB - (XFX) - (PCI-E)
RAM: Corsair 8GB XMS3 PC3-10666 1333MHz (1x8GB) (DDR3)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-78LMT/USB3 (AMD 760G)
Sound card: Integrated.
PSU: Corsair 650W PSU
Storage: 1 TB Seagate (1000 GB) SATA-III HDD 7200 RPM 64MB
If you've any questions for me feel free to throw them, and I'll answer them to the best of my abilities! I don't have high expectations, and I'm willing to completely redesign this setup for something better at a similar price. As I won't be building this myself, the site I'll be building this on (Computer Planet) may not have the components some of you might recommend, but I'll be sure to check if they do so I can compare.
While I'm here, I'd also like to ask if sites like Game Debate give accurate readings when comparing one's own rig to that of the Minimum/Recommended settings of the games I check? As I've been using that a lot, I'm just wondering if what its' telling me is helpful.
Thanks for your time, and apologies for the wall of text!
-- Johnbonne.
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