New Budget Gaming PC - Any recommendations?

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Keemann

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Hello all,

I'm recently helping my friend build a budget gaming PC for £400 including Windows 7.

The current specs of the PC i've come up with is:

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor

Motherboard: MSI 760GM-P21 (FX) Micro ATX AM3+ Motherboard

Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory

Hard Drive: Western Digital Scorpio Blue 640GB 2.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive

Graphics card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 650 Ti - 2 GB

Case: CiT Neptune Gaming Case

Power Supply: XFX 450W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified Power Supply

Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer

Operating System: Windows 7 Professional 64 bit

This PC comes around about £398.99

Any changes or recommendations, please leave feedback :)
 
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g-unit1111

g-unit1111

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Pay a bit more for a better case - CiT cases are garbage. A Corsair 200R or NZXT Source 210 are much better choices in the sub £25 range. Also lose the slow laptop hard drive. You might want to try increasing your budget to £500.

Maybe try something like this:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-6350 3.9GHz 6-Core Processor (£101.99 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock 970 Extreme3 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£66.66 @ Dabs)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£53.97 @ Dabs)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£50.20 @ Ebuyer)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost 1GB Video Card (£132.46 @ Dabs)
Case: NZXT Source 210 Elite (White) ATX Mid Tower Case (£41.99 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 500W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V Power Supply (£49.83 @ Dabs)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer (£13.15 @ Amazon UK)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£68.35 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £578.60
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-07-01 17:19 BST+0100)

I went way over budget but this has a much better CPU / GPU combo with a better case on top of that.
 
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