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Much like Frag said above me, I personally recommend building your own PC, it generally works out to be cheaper if you buy the components separately and put them together yourself. Below is an example of what an £800 budget could get you if you built your own rig, this doesn't include Keyboard or Mouse, so it will be a bit above the budget when you add those.

The rig below can easily run new games at high or ultra settings when running at 1080p, the 970 paired with a haswell i5 is a very powerful and cost effective combination.

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CPU: Intel Core i5-4440 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor (£129.99 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z87-D3HP ATX LGA1150...
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Yeah, you can do it at that price, esp if you don't go crazy with the monitor. I added in a 970 GPU, 1TB HDD and Windows base OS to that config. You have about 122 lbs left for monitor, KB and mouse. You'd probably have to stay under 100 lbs on the monitor though, and that site only has a couple at 80 lbs that are 22", and I assume TN.

Thing is though, you could get a better monitor and have a better part selection if you just buy the parts and put it together yourself. It's pretty easy and there's lots of good vids on Google anymore showing all the steps. You basically only need 7 parts, 8 if you buy/install games on disc. 9 if you want to add a SSD.

Windows is very easy to install anymore too.
 
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Much like Frag said above me, I personally recommend building your own PC, it generally works out to be cheaper if you buy the components separately and put them together yourself. Below is an example of what an £800 budget could get you if you built your own rig, this doesn't include Keyboard or Mouse, so it will be a bit above the budget when you add those.

The rig below can easily run new games at high or ultra settings when running at 1080p, the 970 paired with a haswell i5 is a very powerful and cost effective combination.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4440 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor (£129.99 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z87-D3HP ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£53.84 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Kingston Fury Black Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£61.20 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£37.14 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card (£274.99 @ Ebuyer)
Case: BitFenix Neos Black ATX Mid Tower Case (£29.75 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply (£31.06 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£10.46 @ Aria PC)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£72.35 @ Aria PC)
Monitor: Asus VS228HR 60Hz 21.5" Monitor (£94.56 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £795.34
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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