So a while back I had decided I would love to get back in to PC gaming. I'm a tight arse though and I needed to do low low budget. Initially I had proposed using more recycled spare parts, but I wanted to make sure it was reliable so most of them went out the window. My first idea was to use the well respected AMD RX470 coupled with the G4560 CPU which punches way above its price point. The CPU was out of stock most places when i finally decided to get the build going, and crypto miners had bought every single fucking GPU in the world.
First part to buy was the GPU. Finally settled on a Palit 1050 TI. It retailed around £135 but it dropped in price and I had an amazon voucher for £20. So it cost me £99. I was now committed to buying the rest of the PC or having an expensive paper weight
My build had gone from budget to expensive on more than one occasion, but I decided that solid budget was the way forward. I changed the motherboard to one that was on sale at scan and bought an i3 CPU. In reality, upgrading the CPU cost me £40 for about 6% performance increase, not great, but at least it was in stock.
CPU - Intel i3-7100 Kaby lake - £102.97 (scan offer)
Motherboard - Asus Prime B250M-PLUS - £62.99 (Scan offer)
GPU - Palit 1050 ti - £119 (£99 with gift voucher)
RAM - Corsair 2 x 4GB 2400Mhz - £66.50
PSU - Refurb 450W Corsair - £24.98
SSD - Western Digital 120GB - £54
HDD - 1TB Enterprise Western Digital - FOC
Monitor - AOC G2460PG - £160 (second reduced from £349)
Peripherals I had, but are to be upgraded
Total Build cost was £590
Fitting the PSU. Bit of a pain not being modular, but that's a luxury for next time.
Fitting CPU. I was quite nervous about this bit as I haven't used this type of socket before. Easy enough to do in the end.
Most of the stuff installed now. Spent a bit of time routing, and the rerouting cables. It's still not exactly what I want, but I was getting desperate to play it by this point.