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What is your budget and currency? I'd like to spend as little as possible but be able to game at a decent standard on most PC Games such as PUBG, DayZ, Arma, H1Z1, CSGO etc. Taking into consideration I will need to use this budget to purchase everything excluding the current Xbox One I have which will be apart of the setup. Max id be able to spend is around £800. But I would preferably like to keep it as low as possible e.g. If a £400-500 PC build itself w/ a £150 Monitor and £25 KBM will do the job perfectly then I would prefer that.
Do you need a monitor? Yes, as stated I would be using this monitor to play my Xbox One on too so preferably a monitor which would have no problems w/ that and as I play FPS games a lot maybe a monitor with low response time? idk if its necessary but I'm sure someone out there would be able to say if it is or not.
Do you need a keyboard? Yes, not entirely fussed on the keyboard.
Do you need a mouse? Yes.
Do you need an operating system? Yes.
What will you use the PC for? Gaming.
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CPU: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] (£95.99 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] (£74.79 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] (£73.77 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] (£39.47 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] (£128.99 @ Aria PC)
Case: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] (£34.00 @ Ebuyer)
Power Supply: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] (£47.57 @ Ebuyer)
Monitor: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] (£94.91 @ Ebuyer)
Mouse: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] (£20.99 @ Ebuyer)
Total: £610.48

Add an HDD. You can get a 1TB WD Blue or Seagate Barracuda for about £40. Grab any cheap keyboard you like the look of. Don't pay more than £20 for a membrane keyboard. If you spend more than that on a keyboard, get a mechanical keyboard. Or you could get a CM Devastator kb+mouse bundle for £30. It's worth the twenty quid for the Xornet mouse though IMO, so just spend £10-20 on a separate keyboard. As for response times on monitor, ignore that. Its mostly just marketing anyway. I guarantee you won't notice a difference between a 1ms and 8ms response time on a 60Hz monitor. Most of the 1ms or 2ms 1080p 60Hz monitors are absolute gash TN panels.
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13 wrote [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] / [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

CPU: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] (£95.99 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] (£74.79 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] (£73.77 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] (£39.47 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] (£128.99 @ Aria PC)
Case: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] (£34.00 @ Ebuyer)
Power Supply: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] (£47.57 @ Ebuyer)
Monitor: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] (£94.91 @ Ebuyer)
Mouse: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] (£20.99 @ Ebuyer)
Total: £610.48

Add an HDD. You can get a 1TB WD Blue or Seagate Barracuda for about £40. Grab any cheap keyboard you like the look of. Don't pay more than £20 for a membrane keyboard. If you spend more than that on a keyboard, get a mechanical keyboard. Or you could get a CM Devastator kb+mouse bundle for £30. It's worth the twenty quid for the Xornet mouse though IMO, so just spend £10-20 on a separate keyboard. As for response times on monitor, ignore that. Its mostly just marketing anyway. I guarantee you won't notice a difference between a 1ms and 8ms response time on a 60Hz monitor. Most of the 1ms or 2ms 1080p 60Hz monitors are absolute gash TN panels.


Excluding the Monitor n Mouse you included in the build, [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] this one is quite similar however it has a 2TB HDD instead of the SSD and other changes. Would there be any point in having only a 120GB SSD if im only going to use it to game nothing else
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That has a different, shitty motherboard. A320 chipset is gash. That case is also pretty shit. You can get better cases for a similar price, but you said you wanted to save money, hence why I included a budget case. Yes, there is a point in having an SSD. It's for your OS and a couple of games. You add the HDD alongside an SSD. That list also has slower RAM for the same price.
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13 wrote That has a different, shitty motherboard. A320 chipset is gash. That case is also pretty shit. You can get better cases for a similar price, but you said you wanted to save money, hence why I included a budget case. Yes, there is a point in having an SSD. It's for your OS and a couple of games. You add the HDD alongside an SSD. That list also has slower RAM for the same price.


[ Register or Signin to view external links. ] How u think this looks? Literally I don't think the SSD would be needed as I'm not one to care about loading times for the PC and reading from reviews the HDD I've put in seems to be alright. The RAM i've put in this build, is there a difference between having DDR4-2400 1 8GB stick in comparison to having 2x4GB DDR4-3000?
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13 wrote That has a different, shitty motherboard. A320 chipset is gash. That case is also pretty shit. You can get better cases for a similar price, but you said you wanted to save money, hence why I included a budget case. Yes, there is a point in having an SSD. It's for your OS and a couple of games. You add the HDD alongside an SSD. That list also has slower RAM for the same price.


[ Register or Signin to view external links. ] How u think this looks? Literally I don't think the SSD would be needed as I'm not one to care about loading times for the PC and reading from reviews the HDD I've put in seems to be alright. The RAM i've put in this build, is there a difference between having DDR4-2400 1 8GB stick in comparison to having 2x4GB DDR4-3000?


You can really just put in the cheapest 1-2TB HDD you can find, as well as 120-240GB SSD (sandisk, or kingston are usually for the low end market) or just go on ebay for an SSD. That case, is just as bad as the other one. I would honestly pay the little price bump for the source 210 elite over that one.

Ryzen favors faster RAM in most cases. Saying the SSD wasn't needed kinda bothered me, as literally any build can favor one, and or benefit regardless the budget (most people could deal with a 60GB even due to the fact that windows takes up 20GB alone, and you will benefit from the little storage that is there, just adding in a HDD).
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