Budget Gaming Builds

betterthanivey

Hi Cans, I said I'd make a thread of gaming Pc's ranging from 400 euro to 500 euro to see what other people think and for people to see what they are missing out on for not spending an extra little bit more. Lot of budget builds going around at the minute for 400 so want people to see what they would be missing out on for not spending the extra bit.

Sub 400 build - A very solid build which will play some new games decently at 1080P maxed out. Games like dshonored and bioshock infinite will run fine maxed out (obviously not at 60 FPS) but graphics will need to be lowered to medium to high for crysis 3. X4 should be fine for a another two years

Item|Price
4GB G.Skill PC3-10667U CL9|€25.36
Seagate Barracuda 7200 320GB SATA 6GB's|€45.61
be quiet! SYSTEM POWER 7 400W|€38.94
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Box, Sockel AM3|€89.00
ASUS M5A78L-M LX V2, Sockel AM3+ bis 125W, mATX|€40.80
HIS HD 7770 GDDR5 1024MB DVI HDMI 2xMiniDP|€99.74
FRACTAL DESIGN Gehäuse Core 1000 black|€29.71
Shipping|€18.99
Total|€390.00

450 euro build Same as above but with better motherboard, hard drive, graphics card. Gonna stick with the 965 for the price range. A 7790 is a new and very decent gaming card. Not going to be hitting 60 FPS with it but should be playing a lot of games maxed out around 40 FPS and games like crysis 3 on medium to high.

Item|Price
be quiet! SYSTEM POWER 7 400W|€38.94
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Box, Sockel AM3|€89.00
FRACTAL DESIGN Gehäuse Core 1000 black|€29.71
ASUS M5A78L LE, Sockel AM3+, ATX|€49.67
8GB G.Skill PC3-12800U CL11-11-11-28|€48.72
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 3 6GB/s|€62.16
HIS HD 7790 iCooler GDDR5 1024MB DP/2xDVI/HDMI|€128.76
Shipping|€18.99
Total|€465.95

500 euro build Should be able to play most games maxed out at decent framerates bar crysis 3. FX6300 is a very good processor and a step up from the black edition

Item|Price
FRACTAL DESIGN Gehäuse Core 1000 black|€29.71
ASUS M5A78L LE, Sockel AM3+, ATX|€49.67
8GB G.Skill PC3-12800U CL11-11-11-28|€48.72
AMD FX-6300 Prozessor, Boxed, Sockel AM3+|€121.53
HIS HD 7850 GDDR5 1024MB DVI/HDMI/2xMini DP|€146.99
Seagate Barracuda 7200 500GB SATA 6GB's|€47.79
Super-Flower Amazon 80Plus 450W|€46.35
Shipping|€18.99
Total|€509.75

Jonny7

We can go even lower with an Intel G860 (beats out FX6300 in quite a few gaming tests) and a 5570 graphics card (even less with the 6670)

and for the really determined and foolhardy, the PSU/Case combo

Getting close to 300 euros.