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Build Advice Help on a £600 PC for uni

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by megadelayed, 22 Nov 2015.

  1. megadelayed

    megadelayed What's a Dremel?

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    Hi
    I need help for building a gaming PC preferably under the budget of £600, I'm having a hard time deciding on which parts to buy without going over the budget much, but I seem to go just out of my reach if I don't want to lose major jumps in performance, currently, I've came up with something like this:
    CPU: Core i5 4690k (£169.99)
    Cooler: Cooler Master Seidon 120V (£34.98) (Can't find a cheap case that would fit the 212 EVO, if you guys know a case for under £40 please recommend)
    Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97P-D3 (£56) or Z97-D3H (£68)
    RAM: 16GB Crucial 1600MHZ CL9 (£50.99) (Already brought from Amazon sales)
    SSD: 250GB 850 EVO (£42, buying a unused one off a friend)
    HDD: 2TB 7200rpm Hitachi (£49)
    GPU: XFX 4GB R9 380 (£160)
    PSU: Corsair CX500 (£40)
    Case: Corsair 100R (£39)
    Total:£641.96 or £653.96
    As you can see I can only have £630 ish and I need this PC ASAP as my current laptop broke, is there anywhere I can cut down the costs here to that amount or replace my parts with similar performing but cheaper ones?
    Thanks
     
  2. fuus

    fuus Misses Rep Bombs

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    Easiest way to cut down would be hold off on buying the SSD and just install windows on the HDD for a few months
     
  3. M2r1o

    M2r1o What's a Dremel?

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    Do you really need a Core i5 4690k? If not, you can go with a non K i5 & save some $$$ there.
     
  4. theshadow2001

    theshadow2001 [DELETE] means [DELETE]

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    Get a cheaper 8 Gb set of ram. 8 is fine and you can add more later if you need. Combining that with a cheaper 1tb drive would probably bring you below 600.
     
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  5. Tangster

    Tangster Butt-kicking for goodness!

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    Just keep the stock cooler until you have more money.
     

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