[MEGATHREAD] Personal Computer - Updated builds thanks to Logical Increments

[espio100]

Hey, my friend is looking for a prebuilt PC for him and his family to use. Here are the criteria he wants:

-£500-£600
-Able to run games like Skyrim at possibly medium or so settings?
-The case to look normal, so no lights or "edgy" designs.

Please could you make any recommendations for what he should get?

Where's he located?

Well if hes in the UK i'd say this is quiet a decent computer.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/forcebox-gamer-plus-intel-core-i5-4690-3.5ghz-3.9ghz-turbo-nvidia-gtx-vr-ready-gaming-pc-fs-430-oe.html

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Where's he located?

Yeah UK, thanks for the suggestion. I'll just get lots of different recommendation and choose the best one :D

[rambo1220]

So I'm wanting to get a 1070, but that would require me to upgrade from my fx-6300. Should I:
A. Upgrade to a fx-8000 series CPU, allowing me to keep my current motherboard.
B. Upgrade to an intel cpu that can handle a 1070.
C. Wait for the zen cpus and upgrade to one of those.

I would like to switch to intel, but if I could get the same performance by upgrading to an 8000 series card then it might save me some money. I need something that won't bottleneck a 1070.

my current setup is a i5 6600k w/ GTX 1070 FE, stuff is amazing man, upgrade to an i5 for this card

[espio100]

Yeah UK, thanks for the suggestion.

Also how is this guys?
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/computing/desktop-pcs/desktop-pcs/cyberpower-gaming-empire-elite-ii-gaming-pc-10140548-pdt.html

AMD CPU's dont go well with gaming due to their poor single core peformance since most games only use a core or 2, a better single core peformance usually means more frames. Well DirectX12 should make use of more cores thus solve that problem.
Well for its price is p good so why not.
You can always build one yourself wich is the best option imo. It gives you a wide variety of options to you and its like building lego's but with like 7 bricks and a forgetload of wires

[Ipquarx]

Hey, my friend is looking for a prebuilt PC for him and his family to use. Here are the criteria he wants:

-£500-£600
-Able to run games like Skyrim at possibly medium or so settings?
-The case to look normal, so no lights or "edgy" designs.

Please could you make any recommendations for what he should get?

Skyrim can be run at medium settings using basically any graphics card from the past 5 years... My GTX 560 (which goes for $50-70 on ebay) can run it at max settings 40-50 fps.

[JumboMuffin]

Skyrim can be run at medium settings using basically any graphics card from the past 5 years... My GTX 560 (which goes for $50-70 on ebay) can run it at max settings 40-50 fps.

Ah superb.

AMD CPU's dont go well with gaming due to their poor single core peformance since most games only use a core or 2, a better single core peformance usually means more frames. Well DirectX12 should make use of more cores thus solve that problem.
Well for its price is p good so why not.
You can always build one yourself wich is the best option imo. It gives you a wide variety of options to you and its like building lego's but with like 7 bricks and a forgetload of wires

Yeah I built my PC myself but he's not all too keen to do that.

[espio100]

Yeah I built my PC myself but he's not all too keen to do that.

If you cant you're no smarter than a 12 year old with autism and 2 other mental disabilities
Seriously, if a handicap like me can pull it off everybody can.

[rambo1220]

If you cant you're no smarter than a 12 year old with autism and 2 other mental disabilities
Seriously, if a handicap like me can pull it off everybody can.

this, building a PC really isn't hard at all, you just got to educate yourself about it. My first PC took me like a week only because I couldn't decide on an OS and had to have a friend help me out with it. But my current rig which has alot more in it than my previous one did took only about 4 hours, and then setting up the OS took only one.

[Niblic²]

yea he could easily build a computer that can run skyrim at ultra at that price

[rambo1220]

god loving damnit

so I've been having some driver problems with my 1070 and all my games would crash after about 40 mins or so, sometimes making me restart my computer. I knew it wasn't the card itself because it's temps are just fine as are the CPU's

apparently on the release of their new card lineup, Nvidia released a stuff driver that's complete stuff. The only times my games would ever crash on my 960 was from modding the game wrong or if it had too big of a load. So now while playing Witcher, ARMA, Watch Dogs, etc. I have to pray to god that this week old driver doesn't crash the loving thing. Most I can go without one is like two hours. so loving done, thnx Nvidia you cunts

and it's not just me, literally everyone with this driver is experiencing problems, it even bricked one guys 1070.

[espio100]

god loving damnit

so I've been having some driver problems with my 1070 and all my games would crash after about 40 mins or so, sometimes making me restart my computer. I knew it wasn't the card itself because it's temps are just fine as are the CPU's

apparently on the release of their new card lineup, Nvidia released a stuff driver that's complete stuff. The only times my games would ever crash on my 960 was from modding the game wrong or if it had too big of a load. So now while playing Witcher, ARMA, Watch Dogs, etc. I have to pray to god that this week old driver doesn't crash the loving thing. Most I can go without one is like two hours. so loving done, thnx Nvidia you cunts

and it's not just me, literally everyone with this driver is experiencing problems, it even bricked one guys 1070.

Nvidia will surely release a driver update or hotfix in the next couple of days. 2 tops i'd say.
Do you have Nvidia geforce experience installed? You can usually update it there. Or keep a look on the official site.

The last driver was from the 7th of july. You can also try to downgrade your driver version.

[rambo1220]

Nvidia will surely release a driver update or hotfix in the next couple of days. 2 tops i'd say.
Do you have Nvidia geforce experience installed? You can usually update it there. Or keep a look on the official site.

The last driver was from the 7th of july. You can also try to downgrade your driver version.

yeah I have GeForce Experience on here and both my previous rig, and I would downgrade my driver but this current one is the only one that even support the 10XX series ;~;

[espio100]

yeah I have GeForce Experience on here and both my previous rig, and I would downgrade my driver but this current one is the only one that even support the 10XX series ;~;

Well
I'm sure they will release one soon. It's a major issue.
Than again, it's all new so problems are to be expected.

[Insert Name Here²]

Alright I added in the new things and re-calculated the price and here it is. Does anyone have any more suggestions? (If you want to suggest a part, be sure that it either lowers the cost / if it adds onto the cost, make sure it isn't any more than 10 bucks)

I'm just trying to make this as budget and low cost yet as powerful as I can

Get all of these on Amazon

- Computer -

OS: Windows 10 64 bit  https://goo.gl/CJ8bUA -------------------------------------------------------$ 45.00
CPU: Intel Core I3-6100 3.7 GHz  https://goo.gl/lhUXJk --------------------------------------------$115.95
GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 950 2GB SSC  http://goo.gl/eDodXl --------------------------------------$139.99
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (1x8) DDR4  https://goo.gl/azWD2Q --------------------------$ 43.23
MoB: MSI H110 LGA1151 DDR4 MicroATX  https://goo.gl/feA2tf -----------------------------------$ 54.99
PoS: EVGA 500 W1 80+ 500W 100-W1-0500-KR  http://goo.gl/ZhW3EP -------------------------------$ 37.09
HDD: Seagate 1TB HDD SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5" (ST1000DM003)  http://goo.gl/35ekY7 ----------$ 51.19
Case: Rosewill Dual Fans MicroATX Mini Tower FBM-01  http://goo.gl/DsroRr --------------------$ 29.99

Cost: $517.43

Would this be a good build for medium gaming / editing? If on games I have to lower settings I don't mind just as long as I'm actually able to get 60fps

Would this build be fine for gaming and maybe light editing?

[Legodude77]

my current setup is a i5 6600k w/ GTX 1070 FE, stuff is amazing man, upgrade to an i5 for this card

Are most 1151 intel motherboards ddr4 now? That's all I could find.