Sub £500 Gaming Pc

I'll start by saying this is not for advice or do I plan on buying such a thing.

What I'm interested in is who can come up with the best < £500 pc build.

The rules are;

1. The price must be less than £500.

2. If you rely on overclocking to boost performance, you must add the hardware to achieve it.

3. All prices must be sourced from www.overclockers.co.uk sorry to the Americans who get great prices on their hardware.

4. No peripherals or monitors required. ( Just components & Case )

5. Gaming focused build.

Here's mine.




£493.27

The processor is a duo core, probably the best duo-core on the market for overclocking. It would be quite easy to push it into the high 4's.

The graphics card is also another good overclocker. Whilst it may suffer on the vRam, for a budget pc it will likely dominate most 1080p titles. Whilst suffering a few medium settings on higher demanding titles.

RAM has and never will provide a great deal to gaming. So long as you have enough of it, it's better to spend the money elsewhere.

The SSD is a great choice for gaming. Whilst it will lack in a great deal of space, it's enough for the OS & a good amount of game installs.




Let's see what you can come up with.

 

SSD is self explanatory

Went down on the mobo since AMD chipsets are the same across sockets and the build only requires 2 sticks of RAM, so this is totally adequate

Cheap case cause expensive cases aren't worth it

Went with the AMD CPU because they're unrivalled for budget builds. Most modern games can take advantage of multiple cores too, so dual core like in OP's build will perform poorly on multi-threaded games. This build doesn't rely on overclocking. Retail CPU so it comes with a stock fan.

600W PSU should be able to take the beastly CPU and GPU I chose.

I went with the 380 GPU. Based on the architecture of the 280 and I've got a 280X myself, runs really well. Again, no overclocking required for this build to go beast.

 

Great choices.. I went with the duo route as two cores are going to handle most tasks with somewhat decent physics. Though, in some badly optimised games it would be hell'a shite! i.e the Arma series.

I'll have to hand it to you though, you've kicked the ass off mine, I didn't even consider AMD.

 

AMD is completely underrated and it's too bad. I rocked a Phenom II in my last rig for a long time. Only went i5 because I needed a new mobo anyway.