At the moment, I’m trying to get a PC with a budget of just £650.
Using this website, I’m trying to build one, however, I’m not too good on the specs side, don’t know what’s good or bad, so would anyone be able to help me by trying to select the right stuff for me?
Obviously I’m going to have to try to keep it around £650.
If anyone could help, that would be greatly appreciated.
~Adam.
Well, if you don’t want expensive things go for ATI and AMD. That’s all I can say.
I wouldn’t do it Via a company, buy all the parts separately. It will allow for complete customization.
Its all up to you whats good and bad but a nice computer should have around
3ghz CPU (dual or quad)
4gb ram
1TB HDD
GTX 250 GPU
Keep in mind that this is by no means a state of the art PC (nor all the parts needed for a PC) but it is pretty close to my computer and it plays most games fair smoothly.
“GTS 250”
Don’t know why people always mess this up.
I’m looking at another website, and these are the specs I’ve chosen, please comment on what I should change or whatever.
Processor (CPU): Intel Core i5-750 Quad Core (2.66GHz, 8MB Cache)
Motherboard: Asus P7H55-M SI: Micro ATX Value Mainboard, USB 2.0 & SATA 3.0Gb/s
Memory (RAM): 4GB Corsair XMS3 Dual-DDR3 1600MHz
Graphics Card: 896MB nVidia GeForce GTX260 PCI Express
Memory: 500GB Serial ATA 3-Gb/s Hard drive with 8MB Cache (7,200rpm)
I can post the whole list if you want to take a look.
You can upgrade the video card to an ATi Radeon HD 5770, which is cheaper than the GTX 260, faster, smaller, consumes less power, and you get DX 11 out of it.
I’ve had a look at some benchmarks, and the GTX 260 seems to perform slightly better, so would I rather have DX11 support, or better performance?
Good job, I’m proud of you son.
Alternatively, if you want a Socket 775 based computer, go with:
Graphics Card: Sapphire/HIS HD 4870 (or again, 4890 if you have some more money to spend)
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400
Memory: Corsair Dominator 4Gb 1066Mhz DDR2
Motherboard: Asus P5Q Pro
~620$
The DX 11 is good for future proofing, and you can probably get a factory OC’d 5770 for still cheaper than the 260. For instance, the XXX OC’d 5770 is $169.99 on newegg, compared to ~$209.99 for the regular GTX 260.
Go for the 5770 and buy a 2nd one later. The 5830 is also good for a budget but might be a bit out of yours…
The good thing about ATI, you can crossfire different cards together. Like a 5770 and 5830.
Not with that mobo. It’s microatx and only has one PCIe.
Unless you really need Micro atx, look at something like this.
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128409
It’s $85 more, but much, much better. If that puts you significantly over budget, head over to the AMD camp for your cpu. You’ll get excellent price/performance.
As long as the first number is the the same you can Crossfire them. So any 5xxx series card can Crossfire with any other 5xxx series card. Same goes for the 4xxx series and 3xxx seires. Not to sure about the 2xxx series tho but they sucked anyways.
It seems I’m limited to editing the current quote that I’ve saved.
So from what I can do, how’s this?
That setup could run any PC game released to date, and probably all those in the next 2 years.
Just make sure you install the standoffs when you put the motherboard in.
I almost fried mine because I didn’t know that.
Damn firefox coupled with dialup.
Delete please.
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