Budget gaming pc

Bates751 · 5 Dec 2020 at 18:53

Hi,

My boy has asked for a pc for Xmas and has a budget of £600 he has a monitor. I know its not massive amount of cash for pc gaming but just trying to get best value i can for the money and willing to build it myself.

What would you guys/gals recommend?

mickyflinn · 5 Dec 2020 at 20:13

DE My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Intel Core i5-10400F 2.90GHz (Comet Lake) Socket LGA1200 Processor - Retail= £139.99
1 x Corsair CV Series CV550 550W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply (CP-9020210-UK)= £44.99
1 x Aerocool Aero One Mini Eclipse ARGB Micro- ATX Case - Black Tempered Glass= £49.99
1 x Team Group Vulcan Z T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey= £59.99
1 x Palit GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER StormX OC 4096MB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £158.99
1 x TeamGroup 512GB Vulcan G SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 3D NAND Solid State Drive= £46.99
1 x MSI B460M PRO-VDH WIFI (Socket LGA 1200) DDR4 Micro-ATX Motherboard= £96.95

Total: £610.19 (includes shipping: £12.30)

banton.org · 5 Dec 2020 at 20:17

If you need to save that extra few pennies, you can change the case choice to under £40 Goto down to 35 and the extra few quid could possibly get a m.2 ssd drive. Not 100% sure but I think they are better than normal ssd. Someone here may know better

Bates751 · 5 Dec 2020 at 20:20

banton.org said:
If you need to save that extra few pennies, you can change the case choice to under £40 Goto down to 35 and the extra few quid could possibly get a m.2 ssd drive. Not 100% sure but I think they are better than normal ssd. Someone here may know better

If it makes it better I'd be happy to pay slightly more, I'm just trying to stop the price running away.

banton.org · 5 Dec 2020 at 21:15

Yea, as a baseline, m.2 drives are double the speed and only a few quid more. I have literally just ordered a setup yesterday and gone for a 1tb. You would go for the 512gb. I spent 800 almost including buying a 10600k and a 1650 super gtx. But what you are aiming to build is a brilliant piece of kit. Go for the m.2. Have a look at the cases though, cause there are quite a few to choose from.

Bates751 · 5 Dec 2020 at 21:18

Would you recommend amd over intel For price? Been awhile since I've been involved in pcs but thats how I remember it being.

Joxeon · 5 Dec 2020 at 21:31

Bates751 said:
Would you recommend amd over intel For price? Been awhile since I've been involved in pcs but thats how I remember it being.

AMD is more expensive than intel now as the high end performs better than intels chips but even where the chips perform on par like the 3600 vs 10400F AMD is priced higher.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Six Core 4.2GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £229.99
1 x Intel Core i5-10400F 2.90GHz (Comet Lake) Socket LGA1200 Processor - Retail= £139.99

Total: £378.68 (includes shipping: £8.70)

mickyflinn · 5 Dec 2020 at 21:50

This is a good case for the money just went with the other one for the cooling and rgb lights.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/kolink-inspire-series-k6-argb-micro-atx-case-black-ca-047-kk.html

If you can stretch get a 1tb ssd or m2 dont worry to much about speed as there is little diffrence in performance generally.

Bates751 · 5 Dec 2020 at 22:31

I shall let my lad pick but I'm sure he will go for the 1st one with all the led's.

Bates751 · 5 Dec 2020 at 22:32

The graphics card is out of stock. Any others on par?

mickyflinn · 5 Dec 2020 at 22:44

Bates751 said:
The graphics card is out of stock. Any others on par?

There is a shortage of graphics cards at the moment your going to have to to look around to get one.

Bates751 · 12 Dec 2020 at 21:47

My lad has decided he wants to add some of his own money, what adjustments would you suggest? Hes willing to add £200. So that would push my budget to £850

RossGReds · 12 Dec 2020 at 21:49

What game(s) does he play?

Bates751 · 12 Dec 2020 at 21:51

Hes wants to play minecraft,fortnite and rust

PowerPie5000 · 12 Dec 2020 at 22:45

Bates751 said:
Hes wants to play minecraft,fortnite and rust

The system mentioned previously by mickyflinn will be perfectly fine for those games as they're not too taxing on current hardware. Maybe stretch to a 1TB M.2 drive if you can in case he wants to add some more games later on? A GPU with a bit more VRAM would be good for newer games too if you can find one at a decent price?

uscool · 18 Dec 2020 at 23:23

mickyflinn said:
DE My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Intel Core i5-10400F 2.90GHz (Comet Lake) Socket LGA1200 Processor - Retail= £139.99

1 x Corsair CV Series CV550 550W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply (CP-9020210-UK)= £44.99

1 x Aerocool Aero One Mini Eclipse ARGB Micro- ATX Case - Black Tempered Glass= £49.99

1 x Team Group Vulcan Z T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey= £59.99

1 x Palit GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER StormX OC 4096MB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £158.99

1 x TeamGroup 512GB Vulcan G SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 3D NAND Solid State Drive= £46.99

1 x MSI B460M PRO-VDH WIFI (Socket LGA 1200) DDR4 Micro-ATX Motherboard= £96.95

Total: £610.19 (includes shipping: £12.30)

Thanks for this helped a lot my cousin just asked me to look into gaming PC birthday gift for his kid budget around £700 pretty much added the same but MSI MAG B460M MORTAR WIFI and Western Digital Blue SN550 1TB NVME all so far £497.67 just looking into the graphics card is it worth getting the 1660 super only one I see in stock and would only slightly go over budget

Thanks

mickyflinn · 18 Dec 2020 at 23:51

uscool said:
Thanks for this helped a lot my cousin just asked me to look into gaming PC birthday gift for his kid budget around £700 pretty much added the same but MSI MAG B460M MORTAR WIFI and Western Digital Blue SN550 1TB NVME all so far £497.67 just looking into the graphics card is it worth getting the 1660 super only one I see in stock and would only slightly go over budget

Thanks

The 1660 super is a great card and is about 20% faster than the 1650 super and will allow you to play games at 1440p.

If only slightly over budget then i would go for it .

Quartz · 19 Dec 2020 at 00:02

Bates751 said:
I know its not massive amount of cash for pc gaming

With that sort of money if it's purely for gaming he's better off getting a console.

banton.org said:
If you need to save that extra few pennies, you can change the case choice to under £40

For a Micro-ATX case, look at the Kolink Citadel Mesh. Available in plain and RGB. It's a cracker

uscool · 19 Dec 2020 at 00:04

mickyflinn said:
The 1660 super is a great card and is about 20% faster than the 1650 super and will allow you to play games at 1440p.

If only slightly over budget then i would go for it .

Thanks will be at 1080p the extra FPS will be welcome