{ADVICE NEEDED} My first ever self build budget casual gaming PC

[Vashyo]

I feel ur aiming too low (unless u plan on playing casual MMORPGs/light indie games).


You should atleast double the money, imo best performance/value is usually found in £400-600 range. My comp cost me about £420 in total 2 years ago and it still can max some games 1080p with some added anti-aliasing while pretty much playing everything comfortably. You should be quite set to play atleast all multiplats coming to the next gen consoles, so your comp should have a very long lifecycle this way.


I'd recommend getting atleast a quad-core processor, lot of games benefit from 4x cores nowadays. And I think even more will once the new consoles hit, so 2 cores just might not cut it anymore.

Why 5670 particularíly btw? It's quite old and very weak at this point. Wouldn't propably pay more than 20$ for that one myself. 7770 is drastically better and not that expensive. Really good entry-level gaming card. 7850 if u are willing to pay bit more for competitive graphics with the consoles.

8gb of ram, propably best to squeeze the additional 2gb since ram is quite cheap. Doesnt really matter whta ram it is as long as its DDR3.

Get some simple cheap case that is spacious enough for the parts. And do not skimp on powersupply, quality starts at 50$ area with coolermaster/corsair/XFX/antec and some other well known brands. If you dont invest into a trusty PSU model. Low quality PSUs worst case scenario is, they will die and fry other parts with them when they blow up.