Build Advice Introducing the sub £310 PC that can play games!

Yes, but availability isn't great right now.

Look on eBay

 

I might make some effort to keep the sub £310 PC current to see how it changes with the times!

 

I found this mini ITX board http://www.cclonline.com/product/96...oards/ASRock-FM2A75M-ITX-Motherboard/MBD0447/

 

Support for 2600 DDR3, should make the on board GPU fly!

 

You're going to need some kind of an adapter for a laptop drive.

 

Case can take 2.5" drives .

 

But the motherboard cannot take laptop drives.

Or has the situation changed recently?

 

Laptops use standard SATA now, I have four 2.5" drives in my PC

 

Recently ? You been hiding in a cave...Just normal connections now, like an SSD only slower .

 

Velcro

 

What the hell you been smoking? It's no different to an SSD my friend!

Got the drill out today and made a total of 5 bore holes in my Core 1000. It got pretty messy but I tidied it up a little with some U-Channel rubber. Installed the PSU and routed all the cables and it actually looks pretty good. Not installed the motherboard yet from my folks old Micro-ATX PC but it should work out very well.

This is what I wanted to avoid when building the Core 1000...



I'll take some pictures of my build once it's done. Should even have ample room for some closed loop water cooling up front!

 

If you're willing to look in the aftermarket areas. You can land yourself a GTX280 or a GTX285 for a princely sum of about 40 euros.

It's about $70 for one of those in the US. It'll make quite the capable gaming machine.

 

I built a wee A10-5800k system last week for around £530. Had a little accident with one of the 4GB modules (posted elsewhere on these forums) so I only have 4GB of 2133 memory. No big deal as it's mostly for Hyperspin, HTPC stuff and some games I would rather play on the settee.

Which brings me to my question, has anyone tried Mark of the ninja using the A10 yet? I am asking because I tried it last night and suffered really bad slowdown at 1920x1080p which really surprised me. I had to knock the resolution down to make it playable. I have the thing overclocked to 4400 too but the GPU is at stock.
Rayman (arguably a better looking game) runs fine at 1080p. I am just thinking the memory may be an issue. Maybe.

 

The problem with such a low spec build, a 360 is around £150 ps3 not far off they anymore either in uk sales at the minute.

I'd personally want to spend at least £500 on components, and from what I remember you a OS to use that windows 8 for £25 deal so you would need win7 install with valid key.

Never seen the point in just build a pc for gaming on such a small budget there's better games consoles available that what these builds would play.

Does the witcher 2 even play on this onboard Gpu for example or bf3 the 2 titles that would want to be played on a pc.

 

Yep, but it's waaaay more expensive. ASRock FM2A75M-ITX - £69.99

 

I went from Vista on a HDD to a fresh install of Windows 8 on an SSD avoiding the necessity of installing Vista by using a registration trick so that windows believes it is upgrading from an old install. To my mind this is the best way anyway and saves so much time!

Well it is a PC that can also play games! Lower the settings and the above would play just fine.

 

Pretty sure at low settings at 1920x1080 witcher 2 was running at 8fps or sumit stupid, required a resolution drop to 720p to get it to mid 20s.

I assume ps3 360 low is what it is set at I know they both suffer frame drops as well. Witcher 2 is just a heavy hardware game.

They ran there usual suit vs the intel hd4000 and the AMD chip is faster but not fast enough was the general feeling. You can also not get crossfire working nor would you want too.

 

I can just about get smooth gameplay with GTX 670 SLI in this game ranging from 20 - 30 FPS!

It's a monster on 'UBER'!

 

I hear the raspberry pi is pretty good for gaming...

Just kidding. Nice list though. Could come in handy for me. Got a few people wanting cheap builds.

 

All from Ebuyer - although I haven't checked full compatibility thought it was a interesting possiblity as the coolermaster combo's have always been pretty good in my experience

AMD A10 5800K Black Edition 3.8GHz Socket FM2 4MB L2 Cache Retail Boxed Processor £92.62
Asrock FM2A55M-DGS A55 Socket FM2 VGA DVI 5.1 Channel Audio mATX Motherboard £40.50
Coolermaster Elite 430 All Black Case With Elite 500W PSU £62.99
OCZ 120GB Vertex 3 Max IOPs SSD SATA-III 2.5" Read 550MB/s Write 500MB/s 85,000 IOPS £71.98
Crucial 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1866Mhz Ballistix Tactical Memory Kit CL9 (9-9-9-27) 1.5V £35.00

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