Reccommend me a gaming PC for under 600

[Robster]

My ten year old P.O.S has finally bit the dust. Not played any games now for over a year but after having a go at BF1 and Resident Evil 7 the other weekend on a mates XBox I could fancy getting back into it - I miss my FPS shooters

Been years since I've built a PC and am fairly clueless on current technology and I'm also lazy. So I've decided to go for a pre-built box with warranty for a change. I've never got on with consoles and don't want one - need a PC for menial stuff as well. I figured 5-600 is a healthyish budget.

My requirements are:

- Able to play last year/current titles at reasonable quality - I'm not too fussed about how shiny the doorknobs are or how hairy a tiger is in Far Cry 4, just to be able to play them at reasonable frame rate. I'm thinking Titanfall 2, Doom and the like.

- Planning on hooking it up to a 50in TV in my living room and use a wireless keyboard and mouse combo, so graphics card will need HDMI port.

- Some degree of future proofing for upgradability, more RAM faster processor etc.

I have a 120 gb SSD drive in my old comp which is still working so can swap that in for the OS
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[CaNsA]

I'd wait a few months and see how the new Ryzen cpu from AMD performs, along with what price the bundles will be.

You might be able to get a decent bundle for your budget.

[Robster]

No idea what that is but I'll have a look
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[M.C]

I priced up a system myself recently, under £600 you'd probably be looking at an i5/GTX 1060 system (to build). I'm also waiting to see what the new AMD chips are like, hopefully they're good or good enough that Intel get a bit twitchy with their prices.

[Razzy]

Hold out for the Ryzen 3 chipset, it's going to be by far the best value for money
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[MarJay]

I got an AMD FX 8350 bundle for £230, and a GTX 1060 card for £200, with say £50 for RAM you're running right close to budget with case, PSU, SSD etc...

Have you got any components you can re-use? Case, system drive etc?
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[Robster]

[MarJay]

I got it from AWD-IT which seems to be reasonably priced. It runs Doom on full settings with a very smooth framerate.
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[MarJay]

It's also worth bearing in mind that more modern graphics cards have lower power requirements, so your current PSU might well be fine.
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[RhynoCZ]

[CaNsA]

Wait for Ryzen.


https://i.imgur.com/jIPNuBp.png

[M.C]

[temeluchus]

If you are dead set on amd wait a few weeks and go am4/ryzen.

Buying an 8350 is literally shitting money down the loo.


Edit

******also, money is better spent on a better graphics card than for a cutting edge cpu provided you are buying intel or waiting for the ryzen chips******
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[temeluchus]

[MarJay]

[M.C]

[temeluchus]

[Robster]

Well I may as well wait a bit then for the Ryzen. Moving out of the parents gaff next month and got myself a wee chromebook for the time being so I can do officey stuff, my worry is I've drifted away from gaming the last couple of years but stuff like Far Cry 4, Doom, Titanfall 2, that new Tom Clancey open world one etc. Have got me itching for more. Didn't want to shell out $600 and get bored again after a month!

I think I've got something like an 800 watt modular PSU in my old PC that might do in a modern system - cost me a pretty penny when I bought it a while back.
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[MarJay]

[MarJay]

I did a quick test with Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon (as pretty much everyone who reads the Geek Zone should have it for free) and the lowest frame rate I saw was 63fps.
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[Derivative]

Not sure if anyone has covered this:

[Shinigami]

i'm running an FX8320 with a Radeon r9 390.

Plays everything at 1080p absolutely fine, most things on 'ultra'

only really playing Overwatch and Rocket League at the mo though which are no problem for that setup.

Just built a machine for a friend with an i6500 and a gtx 1050 ti OC
for these games it performs pretty much the same as mine, total cost inc delivery of parts and a 250gb ssd and 2TB hdd was about £680.

Going forward however Id probably wait to see what Ryzen brings
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[CaNsA]

AMD RYZEN 7 REVIEW.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wJQEHNYE7M