Building a pc is never been a easy thing. You need to know how to
balance your budget and the performance. When it comes to very low
budget build. the performance you will get is pretty low too. but at
least it will do some job for you. Might will work on some high end
games on mid settings.
A console cost your around this price too. And you have very limited
activities on it. Why not build a pc instead when you can do anything
such as office works watch TV, Movies, and Game on it. Cool huh?
First off you will need to choose a CPU. CPU is pretty important, but
those Core i series is too high for a low budget pc. I will choose one
for you and that one is pretty good price with better performance.
CPU: Pentium Anniversary G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor [69$]
The Pentium Anniversary G3258 is very compatible CPU for a soft gaming
1080p. Some game will run smoothly on it such as GTA 5, Far Cry 4, BF 4,
Fall Out 4 around mid settings 1080p. You will get some better
performance on this Pentium CPU.
This CPU is unlocked. Which means you can overclock this bad boy. Some
decent Air cooling will do the job. Boosting up some numbers on
frequency will also improve your gaming experience but it will decrease
your CPU life span too. Or getting a water cooling instead?
I do not recommend to use a warter cooling on this build because the
water cooling is cost more then the CPU. Why use Water cooling on this
CPU for overclocking? it might not worth it thought.
Motherboard: MSI H81m Mini ITX 1150 [40$]
This is a very common mainboard for budget build. I will recommend this
to any one of you who want to build a budget gaming pc. It has a PCIe
x16 slot for your GPU. 2 Ram slots which you can boost up to 16GB. Some
SATA slots for your storage.
The MSI H81m offer you very great deal with the price. You can get this
around 40$ near by your house or get it from Amazon or any Computer shop
out there. The price never go over 60$. If you find it over 60$ then do
not attempt to buy it. The shop must have sell it higher then others.
Take some times to go around.
RAM : ADATA 8GB XPG [40$]
You can get any 8GB ram for around this price. It doesn't depend on any
brand. For Ram is not important the cheaper you get the more budget you
save. But i always recommend to choose a better ram like Kingston or
ADATA which their price are pretty low and it never have any problem
with it.
You can get a 16GB instead if you want to do more stuff but adding 8GB
more on this build won't help you much. Unless you want to open Fall out
4 and watching Youtube and open several browser tab at the same time.
Don't overdo on a 400$ pc, deal with it.
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R7 260X 2GB [104$]
This card is decent for your 1080p gaming. You can run Fall out 4 mid
settings for 40 - 50fps with no hiccup or any spikes. The Card is very
good when it comes to budget gaming. Comparing to GTX 750Ti its
performance is a little bit lower so if you have more i suggest you get
the GTX 750Ti instead. but R7 260X is never a bad idea.
Some benchmarks of the card:
- Alien: Isolation | High Overall Detail, Anisotropic Texture Filtering 8x = 61fps
- Tomb Raider | High Quality = 61fps
- Battlefield 4 | Medium Quality = 54fps
- BioShock Infinite | Very High Quality = 58fps
- Metro Last Light Redux | Medium Quality, AF 4x, Tessellation Normal = 44fps
- Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor | Medium Quality = 51fps
- Sleeping Dogs Definitive Edition | Medium Quality = 53fps
As you can see you can RUN most of the game ~55fps average. Why not choose this one?
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 430W 80+ Bronze Certified [40$]
Don't waste your budget on a power supply. If you don't know how much
power you need for your build just go to a site called power calculate.
It will tell you how much power you need for your build.
This 430W is decent for your build. Unless you don't use more power to
overclock the CPU. Don't Overclock your CPU with lower output power
supply. It won't do much.
