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cyberglass
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PostPosted: 16:21 - 30 Oct 2015    Post subject: best budget gaming pc £500 to spend Reply with quote
What sort of specs and do you guys have any links. looking to spend £500-600 tops. not bother about new or old and would prefer a prebuilt. they all seem shite on ebay.

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PostPosted: 19:36 - 30 Oct 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Aria are good. I've got the GLADIATOR AMD FX-8320 and I'm well pleased with it.
Runs everything and is unbelievably quiet.

https://www.aria.co.uk/Systems/Gaming+Range/Next+Day+Gaming+PCs/
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PostPosted: 20:26 - 30 Oct 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
https://pless.co.uk/home.php


Either buy components or built systems (I prefer buying the components and building it myself).
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PostPosted: 08:12 - 31 Oct 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Get one on finance. 0% apr i think or near enough from ukgamingcomputers.

Mines a 4.2ghz i7core running 16gb ram 4gb nvidea 970 gfx card with 2tb hdds.
Cost about 1350. 5year warranty too. But they take three weeks to build it..
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PostPosted: 08:39 - 31 Oct 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Would possibly sell mine as I've not used for ~2 months. I'll try to drag out the specs.
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PostPosted: 10:35 - 31 Oct 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
mysterious_rider wrote:
Get one on finance. 0% apr i think or near enough from ukgamingcomputers.

Mines a 4.2ghz i7core running 16gb ram 4gb nvidea 970 gfx card with 2tb hdds.
Cost about 1350. 5year warranty too. But they take three weeks to build it..


Bit excessive and a waste of cash if that's for just gaming.
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PostPosted: 14:01 - 31 Oct 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/

Very good website for prebuilts and customisation Thumbs Up

However I would always recommend building your own, the individual component warranty's alone make it worthwhile.
If you buy a PC from the Likes of PCWorld for example, after the 1-2 year warranty you are on your own for any hardware issues.
Whereas if you build your own

CPU - 7 Year Warranty
RAM - Lifetime Warranty
PSU - 10 Year Warranty

Buy it one piece at a time while waiting for deals.
I made my PC using PCpartpicker.com then watched each component for sales or retailers trying to undercut each other.
Must of saved an easy £200 Cool
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PostPosted: 14:48 - 31 Oct 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm not really convinced about FX8xxx processors for gaming, since games favour fewer faster cores. You'd be better off getting an FX63xx and having it run cooler and be cheaper. In the case of overclocking, with the FX8xxx you'd be better off disabling 2 cores and then overclocking it, but then you may as well just get the FX63xx. If you want more gaming performance than that, don't bother with FX8xxx, just get a high clock Intel i5, they're about £160 on ebay.

Since nobody has mentioned it, get a decent screen, not much point having great graphics going to a crap screen Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 14:51 - 31 Oct 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Pre-built systems from OCUK within your budget.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/pc-systems/configurator/gaming-pc?ckMin=49789&ckMax=69197&ckTab=0&sSort=3
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PostPosted: 10:07 - 01 Nov 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Im-a-Ridah wrote:
I'm not really convinced about FX8xxx processors for gaming, since games favour fewer faster cores. You'd be better off getting an FX63xx and having it run cooler and be cheaper. In the case of overclocking, with the FX8xxx you'd be better off disabling 2 cores and then overclocking it, but then you may as well just get the FX63xx. If you want more gaming performance than that, don't bother with FX8xxx, just get a high clock Intel i5, they're about £160 on ebay.

Since nobody has mentioned it, get a decent screen, not much point having great graphics going to a crap screen Thumbs Up


They only time I've seen something actually use those octa-core CPUs is my mate running Cubase. His PC would manage to run a ridiculous amount of CPU intensive software synths at the same time.
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PostPosted: 11:09 - 01 Nov 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Paddy. wrote:
Would possibly sell mine as I've not used for ~2 months. I'll try to drag out the specs.


Will that include the amount of gaffer tape and cable ties that bodge it together Very Happy
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PostPosted: 21:42 - 01 Nov 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
smegballs wrote:
Im-a-Ridah wrote:
I'm not really convinced about FX8xxx processors for gaming, since games favour fewer faster cores. You'd be better off getting an FX63xx and having it run cooler and be cheaper. In the case of overclocking, with the FX8xxx you'd be better off disabling 2 cores and then overclocking it, but then you may as well just get the FX63xx. If you want more gaming performance than that, don't bother with FX8xxx, just get a high clock Intel i5, they're about £160 on ebay.

Since nobody has mentioned it, get a decent screen, not much point having great graphics going to a crap screen Thumbs Up


They only time I've seen something actually use those octa-core CPUs is my mate running Cubase. His PC would manage to run a ridiculous amount of CPU intensive software synths at the same time.


They're not bad processors, they're just not as good as Intel processors for games as games favour fewer faster cores, and Intel processors are more efficient per clock than AMD. They're not as good, but still more than good enough. In highly parallel non-floating point workloads (e.g compression, encryption) AMD processors perform exceptionally well and at a fraction of the price of a similarly performing Intel processor.

https://www.overclockers.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/oc-fx-8350-7zip.jpg
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PostPosted: 22:00 - 01 Nov 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
lihp wrote:
mysterious_rider wrote:
Get one on finance. 0% apr i think or near enough from ukgamingcomputers.

Mines a 4.2ghz i7core running 16gb ram 4gb nvidea 970 gfx card with 2tb hdds.
Cost about 1350. 5year warranty too. But they take three weeks to build it..


Bit excessive and a waste of cash if that's for just gaming.



Depends. Almost futureproofed for a few years no? I use it a lot so well worth the dosh for me.
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cyberglass
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PostPosted: 09:32 - 03 Nov 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
thanks for all the replys. im actually running a 8350 in my own computer haha. Anyway its looking like im going to build a system with a fx6300 i only need it to play 7 days to die on decent graphics settings and maybee survive the night when its released.
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