€600 Build

amikoalien2

Hi All
My Young fella wants me to help him build a gaming pc for christmas
Been a long time since building any pc's so looking for a little advice / recommendations
budget is around 600
At the moment he is into minecraft / robolox on the web
flight sim and a few older games like call of duty

i have seen a couple of threads here recommending intel processor I3 or I5
and a h81 motherboard
i have had a look on ebay but there appear to be a number of different h81 mobo's
asus / gigabyte / asrock

can anyone reccomend one thats good enough bearing in mind the total budget of 600 -650
what form ? atx / micro atx

Also is there any where bricks & mortar shops that you can walk into and buy or is online best
Also looking for a case with see through panel as this would be a large item would the shipping be prohibitive


Many thanks

Digital Solitude

i3 4160 €120
GTX950 €160
8gb RAM €40
H81M board €50
500w PSU €60
1tb HDD €50
Case €50
120gb SSD €60
Total €580

i3 is fine for gaming, this'll play anything at High settings

Any board by MSI, ASUS, Gigabyte, ASRock is fine, same with the graphics card

RAM go for Crucial or Kingston, or Hyper X

PSU is XFX, SeaSonic, Corsair or BeQuiet

SSD I'd get a Crucial BX100

Computer Universe or mindfactory are well priced for components

amikoalien2

Digital Solitude wrote: »

i3 4160 €120
GTX950 €160
8gb RAM €40
H81M board €50
500w PSU €60
1tb HDD €50
Case €50
120gb SSD €60
Total €580

i3 is fine for gaming, this'll play anything at High settings

Any board by MSI, ASUS, Gigabyte, ASRock is fine, same with the graphics card

RAM go for Crucial or Kingston, or Hyper X

PSU is XFX, SeaSonic, Corsair or BeQuiet

SSD I'd get a Crucial BX100

Computer Universe or mindfactory are well priced for components

Brillo
Thanks for your reply
Can start getting the bits and have it all ready for him to assemble over christmas
Cheers :-)

amikoalien2

Just an update
ordered and received
asus z97 board
8gb crucial ballistix ram
intel i 3 processor
120gb ssd
2tb sshd
azus 2gb gtx 750 ti oc
Sharkoon case

Waiting to get keyboard and monitor

Whats best ?
I notice that things have gone back to ps2 keyboard and mouse
I thought they had gone out of fashion
is there an advantage to ps 2 over usb

Looking forward to watching the young fella putting it all togeather should be a good confidence builder for him
Cheers

amikoalien2

Well we have managed to assemble same with the only hiccup being the need to connect the addtional power cable for the cpu would not boot on first attempt
It seems pretty quiet considering the 2 big fans in the case a fan on the cpu and 2 fans on the video card I thought it would be like a hoverboard floating off the floor

He seems very happy with world of warships 60fps

One question I have for you is
Do we need to disable the onboard graphics in the bios I assume the bios sees the new video card and is using it no problem
but is there any advantage to disabling the onboard will it free up any resourses

Many thanks

grindle

amikoalien2 wrote: »

Do we need to disable the onboard graphics in the bios I assume the bios sees the new video card and is using it no problem
but is there any advantage to disabling the onboard will it free up any resourses

No, turning it off wouldn't free up any resources unless it starts being used in tandem with the discrete GPU when DX12 and/or Vulkan come out, but that'll have a performance gain you'll likely want.

amikoalien2

grindle wrote: »

No, turning it off wouldn't free up any resources unless it starts being used in tandem with the discrete GPU when DX12 and/or Vulkan come out, but that'll have a performance gain you'll likely want.

Thank you
Will leave well enough alone so as it seems to be going great :-)