Trying to put a rig together for £650

[BennyBoyP]

Hi all. Been a long time since I was on here. Hoping you lot can help me out.

A friend of mine is trying to put together a decent rig for her kid brother for £650(ish) including the monitor, keyboard and all the gubbins. I've tried various sites and keep coming back to PCS. I've put together the following rig and would appreciate your thoughts. It will mainly be based for games like KSP, Space Engineers and the like, but also CoD/BF4 when he's old enough. I've tried to keep it upgradeable but it's been a while since I built my rig so I'm out of touch.

Does the following look OK? Have you any advice as to how to keep it to £650 without a big dip in performance? Your advice/criticism is greatly appreciated.

Case
PCS DOMINATOR 6806B BLACK CASE
Processor (CPU)
AMD A8-5600K Quad Core APU (3.6GHz) & Radeon™ HD 7560D Graphics
Motherboard
ASUS® A88XM-PLUS: (M-ATX, DDR3, USB 3.0, 6Gb/s)
Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (1 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
2GB AMD RADEON™ R7 265 - DVI, HDMI, DP- DX® 11, Eyefinity 2.0 Capable
Free Item
FREE NSF - SILVER GAME VOUCHER with AMD R7 260 & R9 270 GPUs
1st Hard Disk
1TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 32MB CACHE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 350W VS SERIES™ VS-350 POWER SUPPLY
Processor Cooling
STANDARD AMD CPU COOLER
Sound Card
ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs
USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Operating System
Genuine Windows 8.1 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft® Office® 365
Anti-Virus
BULLGUARD INTERNET SECURITY - FREE 90 DAY TRIAL
Monitor
BENQ GL2250HM LED 21.5" 1920 x 1080, 5MS, HDMI, D-SUB, DVI-D (£99)
Keyboard & Mouse
CM Storm Devastator Keyboard and Mouse (£29)
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 11 to 13 working days
Quantity
1

Price: £683.00 including VAT and delivery.

Cheers All

 

[GeorgeHillier]

No point in getting the cpu with an integrated gpu and then getting a dedicated one. Get the amd fx-6300 and a gpu
Also, you'll need a 550w or 650w psu. And the fury ram is actually cheaper

 

[BennyBoyP]

Thanks for the advice. So this is attempt 2, though still need to shave the cost down a bit... Any ideas?

Case
PCS DOMINATOR 6806B BLACK CASE
Processor (CPU)
AMD FX-6300 Six Core CPU (3.50GHz/8MB CACHE/AM3+)
Motherboard
ASUS® M5A97 LE R2.0 (DDR3, USB3.0, 6Gb/s)
Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X FURY DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz, X.M.P (1 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
2GB AMD RADEON™ R7 265 - DVI, HDMI, DP- DX® 11, Eyefinity 2.0 Capable
Free Item
FREE NSF - SILVER GAME VOUCHER with AMD R7 260 & R9 270 GPUs
1st Hard Disk
1TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 32MB CACHE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 350W VS SERIES™ VS-350 POWER SUPPLY
Processor Cooling
STANDARD AMD CPU COOLER
Sound Card
ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs
USB Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 4 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Operating System
Genuine Windows 8.1 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft® Office® 365
Anti-Virus
BULLGUARD INTERNET SECURITY - FREE 90 DAY TRIAL
Monitor
AOC 21.5" WIDESCREEN LED TFT - 1920 x 1080, 5MS, D-Sub, DVI-D (£85)
Keyboard & Mouse
CM Storm Devastator Keyboard and Mouse (£29)
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 11 to 13 working days
Quantity
1

Price: £678.00 including VAT and delivery.

 

[GeorgeHillier]

Thanks for the advice. So this is attempt 2, though still need to shave the cost down a bit... Any ideas?

Case
PCS DOMINATOR 6806B BLACK CASE
Processor (CPU)
AMD FX-6300 Six Core CPU (3.50GHz/8MB CACHE/AM3+)
Motherboard
ASUS® M5A97 LE R2.0 (DDR3, USB3.0, 6Gb/s)
Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X FURY DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz, X.M.P (1 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
2GB AMD RADEON™ R7 265 - DVI, HDMI, DP- DX® 11, Eyefinity 2.0 Capable
Free Item
FREE NSF - SILVER GAME VOUCHER with AMD R7 260 & R9 270 GPUs
1st Hard Disk
1TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 32MB CACHE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 350W VS SERIES™ VS-350 POWER SUPPLY
Processor Cooling
STANDARD AMD CPU COOLER
Sound Card
ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs
USB Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 4 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Operating System
Genuine Windows 8.1 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft® Office® 365
Anti-Virus
BULLGUARD INTERNET SECURITY - FREE 90 DAY TRIAL
Monitor
AOC 21.5" WIDESCREEN LED TFT - 1920 x 1080, 5MS, D-Sub, DVI-D (£85)
Keyboard & Mouse
CM Storm Devastator Keyboard and Mouse (£29)
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 11 to 13 working days
Quantity
1

Price: £678.00 including VAT and delivery.

You need a 550w PSU or the system won't have enough power. There isn't really any other way of putting the cost down unless you compromise on the components and save about £20 and lose a load of performance. If I were you I'd keep it how it is and just change the PSU to a 550w one.