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Help buying PSU

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    #2
    Digital Solitude
    Registered Users Posts: 11,397 ✭✭✭✭Digital Solitude


    You're much better off going with a newer Haswell based build, that PC is already obsolete.

    E.G.

    Pentium G3220 €60
    H81M motherboard €50
    4gb RAM €30
    1tb HDD €50
    120gb SSD €60
    Case €40
    400w PSU €50
    Total €350

    Maybe €120 for a monitor and he's away, lots of room for upgrading if he wants to make it a full gaming machine. It's only a GPU away really, and possibly a CPU upgrade depending

    This'll be grand for indie games and the older stuff, it'll need a graphics card before he can reasonably play anything new.

    you haven't posted a final budget, but if you give one I'll change my build to fit it.


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    #3
    daredevil360
    Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭daredevil360


    Digital Solitude wrote: »
    You're much better off going with a newer Haswell based build, that PC is already obsolete.

    E.G.

    Pentium G3220 €60
    H81M motherboard €50
    4gb RAM €30
    1tb HDD €50
    120gb SSD €60
    Case €40
    400w PSU €50
    Total €350

    Maybe €120 for a monitor and he's away, lots of room for upgrading if he wants to make it a full gaming machine. It's only a GPU away really, and possibly GPU.

    This'll be grand for indie games and the older stuff, it'll need a graphics card before he can reasonably play anything new.

    you haven't posted a final budget, but if you give one I'll change my build to fit it.

    My apologies I didn't mention I have all these parts already ,I just need a suitable PSU to go with the build


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    #4
    Digital Solitude
    Registered Users Posts: 11,397 ✭✭✭✭Digital Solitude


    Ah okay, get him an SSD anyways ;)

    Anything above 400w is grand, don't need more than 500w at all

    Corsair, BeQuiet, SeaSonic and EVGA are all grand manufacturers


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    #5
    daredevil360
    Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭daredevil360


    Digital Solitude wrote: »
    Ah okay, get him an SSD anyways ;)

    Anything above 400w is grand, don't need more than 500w at all

    Corsair, BeQuiet, SeaSonic and EVGA are all grand manufacturers

    Ok thanks I was thinking an Evga 500w 80+bronze just to be sure , and I will be picking up a SSD for sure while am at it :)


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    #6
    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    You are aware that no new games will actually run on that machine? Indie titles, and games like Minecraft, Farming Simulator, CS: GO will be OK, but newer games like Call of Duty Advanced Warfare/Black Ops 3, Battlefield, Battlefront, GTA, Fallout, etc haven't a hope of running on that CPU. Just so he doesn't have unrealistic expectations.


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    #7
    daredevil360
    Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭daredevil360


    TerrorFirmer wrote: »
    You are aware that no new games will actually run on that machine? Indie titles, and games like Minecraft, Farming Simulator, CS: GO will be OK, but newer games like Call of Duty Advanced Warfare/Black Ops 3, Battlefield, Battlefront, GTA, Fallout, etc haven't a hope of running on that CPU. Just so he doesn't have unrealistic expectations.

    Yes fully aware , even overclocked to 3GHz that CPU and GPU combo wouldn't expect it to run any AAA title.


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