[+REP] Gaming PC

[Mark]

OCuK:
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CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor (£139.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£53.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Grey 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£49.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£47.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Case: Zalman Z9 Plus ATX Mid Tower Case (£39.95 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 500W 80 PLUS Certified ATX12V Power Supply (£49.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer (£20.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Total: £402.19
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-02-01 19:42 GMT+0000)

Dabs:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor (£131.98 @ Dabs)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£53.92 @ Dabs)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Grey 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£43.69 @ Dabs)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£44.97 @ Dabs)
Case: Zalman Z9 Plus ATX Mid Tower Case (£47.99 @ Dabs)
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 500W 80 PLUS Certified ATX12V Power Supply
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer (£16.76 @ Dabs)
Total: £339.31
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-02-01 19:42 GMT+0000)

With alternate power supply "Corsair 500W Builder Series CX 80+ Bronze ATX Power Supply" total at Dabs: £383.32

Virtually same spec as Mrwoo's but slight improvements in ram and hard drive by saving tons on the dvd drive.

You may want to go multiple retailers in which case a cross-section of Amazon and AriaPC would save you a fair bit.

Thanks a lot! Greatly appreciated, +rep

[dggood]

In my opinion you should never use an on board graphics card, unless you are building a school or office PC.
However you mentioned 'gaming pc', for games like Battlefield, they have a reputation for forcing most of their gamers to upgrade their graphics cards to some of the latest ones to be able to play the game.
Graphics cards also use a lot of the power from a PC and would therefore i think would strain the motherboard in the long run having to work with a processor and a inbuilt graphics cards.
Unless you plan on playing Warcraft 3 or Sims 3, you NEED a graphics card that is if you wish to play proper games like, COD and BF and many RPGs.

[mrwoooooooo]

In my opinion you should never use an on board graphics card, unless you are building a school or office PC.
However you mentioned 'gaming pc', for games like Battlefield, they have a reputation for forcing most of their gamers to upgrade their graphics cards to some of the latest ones to be able to play the game.
Graphics cards also use a lot of the power from a PC and would therefore i think would strain the motherboard in the long run having to work with a processor and a inbuilt graphics cards.
Unless you plan on playing Warcraft 3 or Sims 3, you NEED a graphics card that is if you wish to play proper games like, COD and BF and many RPGs.

no you dont

[scottish]

In my opinion you should never use an on board graphics card, unless you are building a school or office PC.
However you mentioned 'gaming pc', for games like Battlefield, they have a reputation for forcing most of their gamers to upgrade their graphics cards to some of the latest ones to be able to play the game.
Graphics cards also use a lot of the power from a PC and would therefore i think would strain the motherboard in the long run having to work with a processor and a inbuilt graphics cards.
Unless you plan on playing Warcraft 3 or Sims 3, you NEED a graphics card that is if you wish to play proper games like, COD and BF and many RPGs.

+1 on the 'no you don't'

strain the motherboard by using gfx? lol

[Stephen!]

For any serious gaming you'll want at least a 550Ti or AMD equivalent

Anything else and you may as well get a 360/PS3.

Edit: Here's what I got



Will stomp the above systems for games using only a few quid more. It's entirely performance based - Not meant to look pretty or have amazing cooling. It will get the job done well though.

Optical Drive -You don't need one. Every game out there can be acquired digitally. OS can be installed from a flash drive.