£200 budget build, is it possible!?!? - Hardware & Software

Is it possible to biuld a pc for under £200 and still play some half decent games.!? Parts i have to re - use Motherboard : Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3-B3 & Moniter/keyboard/mouse and thats that! ( BUILDING AS A PRESENT FOR MY LIL BRO ) He loves minecraft and some other light games any ideas? prehaps a list of items?

[img]http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/4852/screenshot2012062916285.png[/img] Higher end games will be hard to run at high res/quality settings, but Minecraft and 'light games' should be mostly fine.

[QUOTE=Juggernog;36550295][img]http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/4852/screenshot2012062916285.png[/img] Higher end games will be hard to run at high res/quality settings, but Minecraft and 'light games' should be mostly fine.[/QUOTE] Add £70 to that for OEM windows 7... Also ~£12 for a DVD drive.

[QUOTE=Jallen;36550735]Add £70 to that for OEM windows 7... Also ~£12 for a DVD drive.[/QUOTE] Forgot to mention i already have windows 7 ultimate ready to go

That's.. so cheap would it even work? I mean.. it's just..so cheap it must like... be slow?

[QUOTE=Juggernog;36550295][img]http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/4852/screenshot2012062916285.png[/img] Higher end games will be hard to run at high res/quality settings, but Minecraft and 'light games' should be mostly fine.[/QUOTE] I would personally choose a less expensive processor (Pentium G630) and put the difference of money on a better graphic card (such as the HD 6670) [editline]1st July 2012[/editline] Also no offense, but that DDR3 graphic card is going to be a huge bottleneck

If the budget was like 350 you could get a decent build that's also prety..fast ish

[QUOTE=ADT;36568483]I would personally choose a less expensive processor (Pentium G630) and put the difference of money on a better graphic card (such as the HD 6670) [editline]1st July 2012[/editline] Also no offense, but that DDR3 graphic card is going to be a huge bottleneck[/QUOTE] He said light games, it's just how far 'light games' extends to.

[QUOTE=Juggernog;36588269]He said light games, it's just how far 'light games' extends to.[/QUOTE] Not really a good reason to choose a priced processor (since a G840 is just a G630 with a few more Mhz) instead of a better graphic card imo

hmmmm thanks for the feedback, have some decisions to make !

Ok so the budget has actually gone up to £300 now, any improvements on the whole build?

The performance can be increased a lot with that 100 pounds, i'll see if I will do a list sometime soon.

so has anyone got any ideas?

He's got a third of a £600 budget, tell him that and he might save for longer and get a hell of a lot more bang for his buck