Zayev wrote no, could do a fair bit better
what is your budget and currency

Sanctorum wrote "Smart big gamers case" lmfao. 6 year old CPU. GPU isn't very good at all. Monitor is more than likely shit, probably not even 1080p. How much is that rig? Is your budget £500 for rig, monitor, keyboard, and mouse?

vonnade wrote

For a £500 budget you're probably going to get a mid-range gaming PC. You can either go for Intel or AMD (obviously), however it is very possible to go for an Intel based rig here. It's pretty easy to build your own PC and it can save you some money also!

Firstly note that a sound card is not required on a system, unless you are a serious audiophile! 16GB of RAM also really isn't required for a standard gaming system and unless you know you're going to need all that storage you can probably just go for a larger SSD (at least to begin with!). A quad core i5 is also plenty for playing games so I wouldn't worry too much about having that big i7!

For £500 you can probably go for something like this:

• Intel Core i5 4690K - £185
• MSI B85-G41-PCMate ATX Motherboard (or similar) - £50
• NVIDIA GTX 960 2GB - £149
• HyperX FURY 8GB Ram Kit - £30
• Kingston 240GB SSD - £50
• Case that includes fans + PSU - £30-70

Hope this helps!

Sanctorum wrote

vonnade wrote

For a £500 budget you're probably going to get a mid-range gaming PC. You can either go for Intel or AMD (obviously), however it is very possible to go for an Intel based rig here. It's pretty easy to build your own PC and it can save you some money also!

Firstly note that a sound card is not required on a system, unless you are a serious audiophile! 16GB of RAM also really isn't required for a standard gaming system and unless you know you're going to need all that storage you can probably just go for a larger SSD (at least to begin with!). A quad core i5 is also plenty for playing games so I wouldn't worry too much about having that big i7!

For £500 you can probably go for something like this:

• Intel Core i5 4690K - £185
• MSI B85-G41-PCMate ATX Motherboard (or similar) - £50
• NVIDIA GTX 960 2GB - £149
• HyperX FURY 8GB Ram Kit - £30
• Kingston 240GB SSD - £50
• Case that includes fans + PSU - £30-70

Hope this helps!

Terrible suggestion. It would be over OP's £500 budget. The GTX 960 is a terrible card. Unlocked CPU with stock cooler on a B85 chipset board? Such a waste. Oh, and a case that includes a PSU? Rly? OP would be better off buying a mouse and having it run on a wheel to power his system.

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Add an HDD asap for mass storage. If you can't add an HDD soon, you'll probably be better off getting an HDD first and adding an SSD later.

vonnade wrote

Fair enough with the CPU and Motherboard choice there, definitely saves some money (minus the clock speed of course). However the R9 285 is pretty much the same price as the GTX 960 and the performance across both is effectively the same for both cards. If you look at multiple user reviews of who have both it's mainly down to which games you play more and the power consumption.

By saving money on the different CPU + Motherboard option you can actually pick up a Coolermaster kit of a case and power supply for £70, saving slightly more meaning OP could probably pick up a HDD for about £10 just over the £500 budget, probably worth it for the SSD performance but also the space available for games and so on.

As for the mouse powering the system, I've once put together a system for a friend in which he bought a case with a PSU (not Coolermaster) and it ran perfectly fine and he's had no issues with it as I'd normally hear if he did! Obviously you wouldn't go for something like that if you had a reasonable budget.