The £139 Gaming PC challenge thread [Build Found]

[Rik]

So tentatively we're about what, £50 or £60 over your budget for a significantly more flexible system that can nevertheless hope to turn a decent performance on many Xbox 360 level titles.

Considering that Rik is continuing to ignore stuff like Gold subscription, extra storage space (if he insists on using a console with no hard drive as his benchmark) and stuff, I think that the £20 difference can be overlooked.

Look I can use the PS3 for £129.99 if you want, whatever. It's a console that can play Crysis 3 out of the box. We don't need a Gold to do that, we can eek out 4-6 months of gold with new accounts on a new machine anyway.

[Rik]

Lets buy the parts new and build it then

[$ilva $hadow]

let's change goalposts.

Goddamn I bet he's reporting the gooseberry fool out of himself.

[Rik]

Some people are actually taking this on like Turnipking, others are all talk.

[Irene Demova]

Like you?

[Johnny Ryall]

This thread.

[Rik]

So link me up to the new parts and we'll begin.

[Peter Crisp]

Just out of interest why would anyone want to build a pc with these pointless constraints? How many people who want to get into pc gaming only have a budget of £160?

[Rik]

Just out of interest why would anyone want to build a pc with these pointless constraints? How many people who want to get into pc gaming only have a budget of £160?

Simply to see if it can be done like some claim.

[BID0]

I'll throw in a tenner so we can upgrade from a 360 up to a WiiU spec.

[Rik]

I'll throw in a tenner so we can upgrade from a 360 up to a WiiU spec.

[False]

I dont know why hes ignoring all of the actual reasonable posts, but Brer has already built such a machine, and Im fairly confident I could also build a machine that could do it on that budget.

[Delusibeta]

Just out of interest why would anyone want to build a pc with these pointless constraints? How many people who want to get into pc gaming only have a budget of £160?

Yeah, that's what's so stupid about this thread. You can't expect to compete with an object that has been made in its millions over the period of half a decade with something that has to be built out of stuff that a shelf-life of six months and is sold in the thousands. That said, his original challenge (build a PC for less than £140 that can run Crysis 3) has been met by Berlappin, which makes it even more pathetic that he's continuing to shove the goalposts around.

[False]

(I do know, its because hes insane)

[Rik]

I dont know why hes ignoring all of the actual reasonable posts, but Brer has already built such a machine, and Im fairly confident I could also build a machine that could do it on that budget.

I'm not ignoring anything, give me the links.

[False]

So link me up to the new parts and we'll begin.

PC, 48 eur
http://www.ebay.ie/itm/Dell-Optiplex-74 ... 27d2709576

additional ram 3 eur
http://www.ebay.ie/itm/2GB-RAM-Memory-D ... 1c32425329

9600gt buy it now 25eur
http://www.ebay.ie/itm/B-F-G-NVIDIA-Gef ... 460f2251eb

PSU buy it now 21 eur
http://www.ebay.ie/itm/NEW-ACE-BLACK-ED ... 4172060840

97 euro total. The exact same PC i can run Crysis 2 on at higher res/fps than a 360.

Enjoy mate!

Now link me one in real money

[TheTurnipKing]

Just out of interest why would anyone want to build a pc with these pointless constraints? How many people who want to get into pc gaming only have a budget of £160?

Simply to see if it can be done like some claim.

I think it's damn close to achieveable, but it's going to involve digging into parts I wouldn't personally normally use in a build, and certainly wouldn't normally recommend - the kind of cheap parts that offer a lower than optimal price to performance ratio, because what matters here more than anything else is the price.

[Winckle]

I believe €1 is about 1.25 potatoes. I think you can convert to sterling from there Falsey.

[False]

I believe €1 is about 1.25 potatoes. I think you can convert to sterling from there Falsey.

Thank strawberry float excel has the built in 'potato to pound' function.

[Delusibeta]

Including postage, that's 124 Euros, which is £105. Of course, this is the point where Rik points out that he's moved the goalposts and that you're now supposed to price match a mythical working £50 Xbox 360