I disagree, that spec is the exact spec as mine, 4460, 8gb, 960, I run games on high at 2560x1080.
The only thing I would consider is that the cpu is 2 generations behind current. the gpu is about to be last seasons thing and the RAM is ddr3.
Currently fine but out of date in a hurry.

It's when you have an issue is when they show their true colours.

Besides all the people comparing parts on the Internet, ask yourself: is it a good deal? Can you get the same thing cheaper? Not everyone builds, some people prefer to get things all as one rather than spending hours faffing to save a tenner.

It looks like a good kit for the price it's at. That's why it gets heat. Find the exact same thing for cheaper...already built...and this deal is cold. Otherwise, it's hot

Of course they do.. I don't store my 3TB of photos/video and 2TB of games/movies on an SSD...

It handles Solitaire without a hitch.

I'm still using an intel e2180 overclocked to 3ghz, 4gb ddr2 and a 9800gtx graphics card...

Check completed used not new, I picked one up for 72 delivered about 6 weeks ago

https://www.scan.co.uk/todayonly

Scroll down and its the first deal called No Brainer.

lol really, i play gta v and fallout 4 on a ATI 7850 with 2gb video ram on high and it runs fine at 1080p and that video card is older than the one in this deal and the cpu is a older amd am3+ fx 4100 and no issues what so ever!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vil1yMMDdBA

​It's called an opinion, my opinion as to latest games that are calling for 3-4 GB of graphics hence my opinion, get over it :stuck_out_tongue:

Can't see that on Scan, do you have a link please?

today only Scan.co.uk bundle is all this this for £311

Corsair Carbide Series 100R Mid-Tower Computer Chassis with Side-Window
650W Corsair VS650 Series, 80 PLUS White, ATX PSU
Intel Core i5 4460, LGA 1150, Haswell Refresh, Quad Core, 3.2GHz Base, 3.4GHz Turbo CPU
Gigabyte GA-Z97-D3H Intel Z97, DDR3, PCIe 3.0 (x16), 2 Way CrossFireX, D-Sub/DVI/HDMI, ATX Motoherboard
1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.14, SATA 6Gb/s, 7200rpm, 64MB Cache, 8ms NCQ OEM HDD

Add 8 gb Ram for £33 and a gfx card for £150 (gtx 960 or an amd r9 380) and thats a better pc for the same price.

Update....pulled the side off the case to disconnect the fan and found out the fan is okay...they just hadnt tied the fan cables back (and the fan was hitting its cable as it spun)......Words fail.....

Was looking to play the old republic . The rest will be played on my Xbox is one. Only downside for me is that the os is home premium. I need professional.

http://m.ebuyer.com/719683

If someone wants a casual gaming pc this isn't that bad, not everyone has £1500+ to spend on a pc. Don't know why everyone thinks you have to run everything on ultra to play a game, especially if you play online FPS games, most people would turn the settings lower anyway.

edit: to the poster above me the graphics card you suggested is about £150 on ebay, not £70

hi , the Gigabyte deal for the z97 board was posted on here around 4 days ago , the integral 120gb drive will be on hotukdeals to , infact most of it will be on here , amazon or ebay.

I recall a discussion on the AMD processor with graphics card on here before. Many people will say it's awful. Others will say it will suffice. I would google the game you want to play and the processor and sometimes you can see youtube videos of it running. That's what convinced me to get the GTX 750ti which is a low powered graphics card and I installed it on a refurbished business PC and basically paid £400 for a PC that (according to youtube videos of GTA V) knocks the pants off a ps4

​comment intended for sparkeeh

it's a z97 .....Try the gigabyte z97p d3 paired with a g3258k or a i3 . something like this https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/b/xNCypg#partlist

should run most things.

See, that's the difference. Comparing like for like is one thing, saying something is poor quality is another. If it's poor quality, it's a poor deal.

My worry wouldn't be that I could save a tenner building one myself, its the fact that a lot of these parts are cheap compared to what you can get. I wouldn't be confident that would still be going strong in two years time.

While you might not be able to build this exact spec for less, you could build something so much better for the same price / not much more.

You can build a gaming rig with i5 skylake, AMD r9 380 (better benchmarks than the gtx 960), 16gb ram an SSD as well as a 1tb drive, a better psu which would be more solid and give you room to upgrade, a solid mobo and a better case.

The only thing that would push it too far is a new copy of windows 10 (£45-£75 legit), if you have win 7 or 8 you can currently upgrade to win 10 for free...

I have one and it's great for the price....that being said one of the case fans just went in mine (about 3 months old...not blaming them it's just one of those things)..called them on Monday....today they ask me to send the machine back for repair (pickup a week today), to expect to lose all my data and they will provide a quote.
Needless to say I am going to replace the fan myself.

What? No it hasn't. And where there are many poor cheap crappy SSD's there are only 3 makers of HDD's and they're all pretty solid. Best going for a machine with an HDD and then picking out an actual decent SSD like a BX100, instead of getting lumbered with some super cheap ssd that will fail really fast

What now?

Sure you may need to knock one or two settings down a notch from the very highest setting, but to say it will struggle is a bit of an exaggeration.

Not your fault, it's a stupid name :stuck_out_tongue:

Don't buy any computer that doesn't have SSD... its been this way for years. This PC is cheap for a reason.
Make the right choice, go SSD.

Hi, looking to build something like this for my brother, have chopped your comments down to just the components I need. A quick question if I may. The r9 285 I can find only for 145ish via ebay and amazon, certainly nowhere near 72, what am I doing wrong?

Also, on the Motherboard, do you mean the gigabyte x79? I cant see a z79 in the Gigabyte product range.

Thanks a lot for your help!

I don't think anyone is expecting a top of the range gaming pc for £500 but it plays games fine just because it doesn't do every game at 1080p doesn't mean it's not a gaming rig. Not everyone needs £400 gpus running in sli some just like playing games like Fifa. If you want 1080p at 60fps on every single game then obviously you will know how much you need to be spending and as you say it won't be £500.

Ah right. My bad. Not a package I'm familiar with.

It's a solid enough machine, but price/performance ratio of gaming PC's will tumble if you can wait a few months til the new nVidia (and AMD) cards launch - the really look to be a big step forward

To be fair it will not play games like tomb raider / doom / GTA 5 on max settings 1080P 60FPS. It will have to give big compromises on just about every demanding game you get and its only gong to get worse with new titles. Good gaming PCs are expensive - sorry.

I have this exact same rig. Got it from Very for £420 a few days before Black Friday when they had a percentage back on purchases plus had a code. I can build but it was just the right parts at the price at the right time for me.

It boots up in a few seconds which is really odd considering it doesn't have a SSD.

I only play on a 1080p screen so the 960 is quite appropriate. If you want constant 60 fps on Witcher 3 I would recommend a 970 or higher.

With some of the settings like lighting, shadows and AA turned down a tad you'll get 50 with peaks of 60 in certain areas, better if you .ini tweak the tree draw distance.

But to put it into perspective consoles have it capped at 30 with frequent drops, so it's a lot more powerful than the consoles.

It handles less intensive stuff with ease and is definitely fit for gaming purposes. Just set your sights on 50 frames rather than 60 for the most intensive games unless you want to lower certain settings significantly.

Of course they do.. I don't store my 3TB of photos/video and 2TB of games/movies on an SSD...

Hi Just wondering.

any chance you could message me some links as I'd like to have a go building a pc with the parts you found.

Thanks,

Judd120

The 960 falls outside the minimum specs for the oculus rift if anyone cares.

It's when you have an issue is when they show their true colours.

It's an excellent spec for the money, those knocking it/saying it won't play games at high settings haven't got a clue what they are talking about. But then some folk think anything that isn't the latest released gpu/cpu isn't worth having :confused:

Heat from me.

Wow. In interests of balance, I have bought several items from EBuyer (including my PC similar to this one), never had an issue with them.

MadVR is for high quality video decoding, not Oculus/Vive related.

Besides all the people comparing parts on the Internet, ask yourself: is it a good deal? Can you get the same thing cheaper? Not everyone builds, some people prefer to get things all as one rather than spending hours faffing to save a tenner.

It looks like a good kit for the price it's at. That's why it gets heat. Find the exact same thing for cheaper...already built...and this deal is cold. Otherwise, it's hot

Ebuyer truly are a dreadful bunch

A 960 will do the job and medium, possibly high settings at up to 1080p. However you may lose out on extra details, soft shadows and full AA etc. That said if you are connecting it to to a PC monitor, it would be fine. I still prefer a self build and a mate of mine bought a Zoostorm before and had loads of problems with it. I then built him a PC with similar specs (just better hand picked components) and he's never had a problem with it. That 350W PSU would need changing for sure.

Zoostorm AND Ebuyer...pass!

Not bad for kodi HTPC, the 960 should be able to handle madVR at high settings.

Whilst it says gaming, you would be struggling to play any decent games on it at high spec ie as the game was intended, sorry

For roughly 500, basic working out, you could have the following

I5 4570 used 80 if no hs supplied + 10
R9 285 used 72
8gb ram new 2 x 4 1866 new 27
Z79 motherboard gigabyte new 52
Bronze 500 watt psu 50
Aerocool 800 case 38
Wifi dongle 7
Kb and mouse 12
120 GB boot integral ssd 23
2gb 7200 hd 50
500gb ssd 50
Windows key fleabay 12-20, free upgrade to Windows 10

Of course not everyone will find the same used prices etc, but better components and ssd drives.

It states a 350 watt psu, I imagine it's a no name cheapie 15 pounds type, not a 500 watt bronze one, plus the i5 price is over priced compared with current i5 cpu, still fair value, but build your own at this price if you want better quality and new components.

Reasonable price, not bad specs, will definitely play games well with a few settings tweaked etc, bit lacking in detail, the PSU looks woeful a 350 watt no name thingie worth around 12 pounds new, you could build it cheaper, if you picked up a used i5, I bought a 4570 recently for 80 delivered and a used R9 285 graphics card for 72, the rest of the 500 could go on a better components, but for those that want a buy it now, play it after delivery product, it's not a bad price

This is a similar build on PC Part Picker: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/TZ4WYJ

I've approximated the parts with similar ones (at the lower costs mostly) and it's £551.76 in parts/software. Not bad! :sunglasses:

Heat added.

nOONE BUYS hdd ANYMORE SO THATS A WASTE

I mean when comparing the build price, you should take into account hukd. Getting components based on deals here is going to be cheaper than buying this.

Apart from that, if for whatever reason you don't want to bother, this is pretty decent.

I got a Zoostorm i3 with a GTX 950 from Ebuyer last week for my son and I've been very impressed with it. (http://www.ebuyer.com/735892-zoostorm-gaming-desktop-pc-7260-5190 was on for £399 when I bought it).

I normally build my own PCs but to be honest at these prices it just isn't worth faffing about.

Voted hot.

Probably the weakest bit of the build then, however at least its a reputable brand and not one of those oem incompatible with anything else crapfests.

my gtx 750ti plays all the games i want on 1080p 60fps and this is better. hot. though can prob get cheaper if get a refurb business pc and install your own graphics card like i did but this is much easier. buy

Nice balanced spec tbh. I don't feel it's worth paying the extra for skylake right now if you want a decent experience at 1080p or just above. Heat from me

GA-H81M-S2V

​An i5 is considered overkill in all but the most recent games (an i3 with hyperthreading does just as well) and a 960 is the sweet spot for price/perf at 1080p. Put into perspective, my i5 2500k and R9 285 2gb (same performance groups) plays pretty much everything I throw at it on high or even max if you turn the antialiasing down(which just munches up vram like a mofo). Great spec for the price,would like to know what the motherboard is though.

I disagree, that spec is the exact spec as mine, 4460, 8gb, 960, I run games on high at 2560x1080.
The only thing I would consider is that the cpu is 2 generations behind current. the gpu is about to be last seasons thing and the RAM is ddr3.
Currently fine but out of date in a hurry.

I own a zoostorm computer and their customer sevice is non existant- beware!!