Build for a friend

Hi frienderinos

My friend is looking for a solid PC build for gaming within a budget of £600.

He will buy the monitor and keyboard, mouse etc and all of that separately but any recommendations for them would also be appreciated.

Pls help xoxo

 

This is what I use

 

What i came up with, pretty decent upgrade path picking a z270 motherboard from the start & the powersupply is a design from sirtech/highpower which are known for good budget units so it should last quite a while, you can swap out the pentium cpu too anything else if you remove the m2 ssd (its a stupid fast storage drive & installing the os on that will be pretty great (just pirate windows 8.1 to start with imo & go for hardware instead.)

PCPartPicker part list: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/jpr6yf
Price breakdown by merchant: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/jpr6yf/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Pentium G4620 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor (£92.99 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-P ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£112.99 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (£41.25 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Samsung PM961 256GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive (£82.03 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£43.65 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Palit GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB StormX Video Card (£137.92 @ Amazon UK)
Case: BitFenix Neos ATX Mid Tower Case (£35.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Power Supply: Silverstone Strider Essential 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply (£39.48 @ Scan.co.uk)
Total: £586.30
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-01-20 15:13 GMT+0000

 

4/10 dont get the cheap bitfenix cases they're so bad to work with. I bought one for my secondary system and the power button hadnt even been soldered onto the io board...

 

*Missread title as "Build a friend"

I think of a perfect person as a mash-up of various body parts of famous people

 

Hm guess it might be a bad idea then. seemed to look alright for the price.

Then again im used to building pc's with little or no space for cable management heh.

 

They're cheap and nasty sidepanels so thin you cant actually get them on/off without bending them

 

Lewis is also in need of friends tbf

 

Any other ideas?

 

Friendspls

 

Well, if you can go with used parts id go for a K series cpu (4th gen or more recent + motherboard used) & then gpu a 1050ti or similarly fast one used as well.

anyway changed around the list i did earlier a bit & now got this
https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/rnTNWX

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
PCPartPicker part list: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/rnTNWX
Price breakdown by merchant: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/rnTNWX/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-7400 3.0GHz Quad-Core Processor (£168.59 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-P ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£111.53 @ CCL Computers)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (£55.92 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£46.40 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: PowerColor Radeon RX 470 4GB Red Dragon Video Card (£165.84 @ More Computers)
Case: Cooler Master K350 ATX Mid Tower Case (£39.40 @ Alza)
Power Supply: Silverstone Strider Essential 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply
Total: £587.68
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-02-06 14:59 GMT+0000