Gaming PC - Budget 250

Alpha8

1. What is your budget? €250

2. What will be the main purpose of the computer? Gaming : CS:GO , Star wars battlefront 2 , STAR WARS Republic Commando ,Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare , Crysis 2

3. Do you need a copy of Windows? No

4. Can you use any parts from an old computer? No

5. Do you need a monitor? No
5a. If yes, what size do you need.

5b. If no, what resolution is your current monitor and do you plan to upgrade in the near future? 1280 x 1024 , maybe .

6. Do you need any of these peripherals? No
7. Are you willing to try overclocking? No

8. How can you pay? [Bank Transfer/Credit Card/Laser]

9. When are you purchasing? [Not sure yet]

10. If you need help building it, where are you based? [South Dublin City

Digital Solitude

Crysis on €250? Good luck.

Realistically you're going to have to up this to €400-500 to get any bog standard machine. Cheapest I could put up would be

AMD A10 €120
Board €50
8gb RAM €30
400w PSU €50
Case €40
500gb HDD €25
Total €315

Thisll manage most of your games at that res, some might only budge 30fps though.

I'll repeat, saving to €400-500 or €600 would make a huge difference to your experience, but if you're fine with this fire ahead.

You'll want to look at AMD A10 gaming benchmarks first anyways

Alpha8

Thanks For your help , But what if I increased my Budget to 350 . Would that be better ?

Lu Tze

If you are tyring to keep the budget as low as possilble, you are better off getting a second hand desktop, something like this and adding a graphics card.

http://www.adverts.ie/desktops/dell-optiplex-990mt-i5-2500-3-3ghz-4gb-ddr3-500gb/10432200

As the power supply is unknown you would be best off banging in a 750ti, some of them dont even need a power connector so would be limited to drawing 75watts or so, which should be fine. This one for instance.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/EVGA-GeForce-Superclocked-Graphics-DisplayPort/dp/B00IDG3IDO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1462699667&sr=8-2&keywords=750ti#Ask

They are about €290 combined. Just an example, should play most things very well at your resolution.

Cianhunt123

For such a low budget i would really recommend getting parts secondhand parts. Go on youtube and search linustechtips r7 250 unboxing and rant he makes some good points there. Anyway good luck with your build

Eoinmc97

As stated above, you have a few options;
-Expand the budget to a reasonable level such as €400 or €500. You see, price/performance at such low prices are awful, whereas the highest gain is seen in the €450-€600 region.
-Buy a 2nd hand PC and add parts to it as you go. This will wind up more expensive down the line when you factor in the fact that you'll most likely be finding older PC builds, with reduced performance.
-Save and push the budget for the sweet-spot €500-€600. This IMO would be the best solution, but, whether this is possible for you or not is up to you.

K.O.Kiki

<€100 nVidia 750ti
http://www.adverts.ie/graphics-cards/asus-750ti-2gb-gddr5/10458281

Wonzy

You'll have to go second hand but will need to be patient with parts but overall can get a good gaming pc for that money.

ebay.ie/itm/Intel-Core-i5-2500K-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3-70-GHz-/282034138476?hash=item41aa8b6d6c:g:i58AAOSwInxXMnNw

I5 2500k - 96.48

amazon.co.uk/Gigabyte-GA-H81M-H-GIGABYTE-H81M-H-M-ATX/dp/B00I6DLKCA/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&qid=1462966106&sr=8-12&keywords=1155

1155 motherboard - 45 euro (I know its not the overclock version for the processor)

4GB Ram - 21.92
ebay.ie/itm/Corsair-XMS3-4GB-1X4GB-Memory-Module-DDR3-1600MHz-PC3-12800-DIMM-Desktop-/381117708376?hash=item58bc62b858:g:pxoAAOSwKfVXIM7D

Hard Drive - 26 euro

ebay.ie/itm/SEAGATE-500GB-SATA-INTERNAL-DESKTOP-PC-3-5-HDD-HARD-DISK-DRIVE-/111972977801?hash=item1a121c0c89:m:m5x0Kv2DiaIZqKJPLdYziiw

Case - 15 euro

adverts.ie/towers/new-case-for-pc/10404493


Power supply - 21 euro (although cheap should be okay - should really be getting one from a decent manufacturer) can up a bit more on this)

amazon.co.uk/Silence-Black-Power-Supply-Silent/dp/B00V3FCYUU/ref=sr_1_4?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1462966584&sr=1-4&keywords=power+supply

And the 750 ti the previous poster mentioned if you could get for around 80 would bring it up to around 305

Digital Solitude

Wonzy wrote: »

amazon.co.uk/Gigabyte-GA-H81M-H-GIGABYTE-H81M-H-M-ATX/dp/B00I6DLKCA/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&qid=1462966106&sr=8-12&keywords=1155

1155 motherboard - 45 euro (I know its not the overclock version for the processor)

Its not the right chipset either, thats a 1150 board.

Overall that's a great find though

I'd implore the OP to go this route but get a good PSU for €40-50

TerrorFirmer

Lu Tze wrote: »

If you are tyring to keep the budget as low as possilble, you are better off getting a second hand desktop, something like this and adding a graphics card.

http://www.adverts.ie/desktops/dell-optiplex-990mt-i5-2500-3-3ghz-4gb-ddr3-500gb/10432200

As the power supply is unknown you would be best off banging in a 750ti, some of them dont even need a power connector so would be limited to drawing 75watts or so, which should be fine. This one for instance.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/EVGA-GeForce-Superclocked-Graphics-DisplayPort/dp/B00IDG3IDO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1462699667&sr=8-2&keywords=750ti#Ask

They are about €290 combined. Just an example, should play most things very well at your resolution.

This is by far the best option with that budget. No point buying a pile of parts seperately when you can just do this. Loads of machines of this type or similar on Ebay. €300 would get you an i5 2nd/3rd gen, 8GB ram, 500GB HD, GTX750Ti.