Home pc for £500ish

Lard77 · Mar 15, 2013

I am looking for a home pc including a monitor and windows 7 for around £500. Although I have fitted ram before I would not feel totally confident building my own system from scratch unless the saving would be significant.

It will be used mainly for browsing, films etc but also football manager and some dated racing sims (gtr2, rfactor) that I can play on medium on my current 5 year old pc.

So far I have found this which I like the look of for just under £400

-INTEL Ivybridge i5 3470 @ 3.2Ghz (Quad)
-ASUS P8H61-MX USB3
-4GB Memory
-500GB Hard Drive

http://www.palicomp.co.uk/cheap-desktop-pcs-from-a-229/intel-home/office-pcs/phoenix-i5-sphere/prod_307.html

I then need a monitor for around £100.

I would maybe fit a budget gpu such as a radeon 6670 for £50 depending on how bad the onboard graphics are at a later date.

Many thanks

Kindredsouls · Mar 15, 2013

One tool you could use to try and price/pick things out is PC Part Picker. There is a drop down menu for a variety of countries (different money systems) as well: http://pcpartpicker.com/

The built in GPU on the Ivybridge CPUs is surprisingly powerful. It can play quite a few games well from 2008 and back. I think what hits it hard is if the game requires specific technologies like higher shading. Someone else here might be able to give some feedback on that.

bodeen2012 · Mar 15, 2013

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/JWha
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/JWha/by_merchant/
Benchmarks: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/JWha/benchmarks/

CPU: AMD A6-5400K 3.6GHz Dual-Core Processor (£50.34 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£25.43 @ CCL Computers)
Motherboard: ASRock FM2A75 Pro4 ATX FM2 Motherboard (£59.49 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£27.78 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 250GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£39.86 @ CCL Computers)
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon HD 6570 1GB Video Card (£51.97 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Xigmatek Asgard II Black ATX Mid Tower Case (£29.36 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 450W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (£34.99 @ Aria PC)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£67.19 @ Aria PC)
Monitor: Hannspree HL229DPB 21.5" Monitor (£91.56 @ Ebuyer)
Total: £477.97
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-03-15 23:11 GMT+0000)

Lard77 · Mar 16, 2013

bodeen2012 :

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/JWha
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/JWha/by_merchant/
Benchmarks: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/JWha/benchmarks/

CPU: AMD A6-5400K 3.6GHz Dual-Core Processor (£50.34 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£25.43 @ CCL Computers)
Motherboard: ASRock FM2A75 Pro4 ATX FM2 Motherboard (£59.49 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£27.78 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 250GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£39.86 @ CCL Computers)
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon HD 6570 1GB Video Card (£51.97 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Xigmatek Asgard II Black ATX Mid Tower Case (£29.36 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 450W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (£34.99 @ Aria PC)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£67.19 @ Aria PC)
Monitor: Hannspree HL229DPB 21.5" Monitor (£91.56 @ Ebuyer)
Total: £477.97
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-03-15 23:11 GMT+0000)

Thanks that comes in well under the budget

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