Approximate Purchase Date: Within a month or so.
Budget Range: $450 or £280. Please also bear in mind that components are a little cheaper in America (If you guys could help me out too it's be great!) so to round off the conversion, I'll say a budget of $400.
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Medium-level gaming. Above-average performance.
Parts Not Required: Monitor, peripherals (Mouse/Keyboard) and OS.
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Amazon and/or Novatech.
Country: UK.
Parts Preferences: Most likely AMD FM1 processors, budget is very tight. I'd say go for a Pentium but low-end AMD processors wipe the floor with low-end intel processors, imo. Also veering towards AMD graphics, but Nvidia is fine.
Overclocking: Unlikely.
SLI or Crossfire: Crossfire at some point, possibly.
Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080/1200 but smaller resolutions for gaming will do.
Additional Comments:
Yes, I know it's a tight one. I'm making a new rig for a friend of mine and he doesn't have too much cash to wave about. I'm probably talking Micro ATX, PSU included kinda tower. Probably AMD, for the value (And probably FM1 at that, AM3+ is nice but even THAT is more pricey than I can handle)
It needs to run top end games smoothly (minimal settings is ok, average settings is even better)
So ladies and gentlemen, this is the doolittle raid of the PC world. Hit me with your ideas!
Budget Range: $450 or £280. Please also bear in mind that components are a little cheaper in America (If you guys could help me out too it's be great!) so to round off the conversion, I'll say a budget of $400.
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Medium-level gaming. Above-average performance.
Parts Not Required: Monitor, peripherals (Mouse/Keyboard) and OS.
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Amazon and/or Novatech.
Country: UK.
Parts Preferences: Most likely AMD FM1 processors, budget is very tight. I'd say go for a Pentium but low-end AMD processors wipe the floor with low-end intel processors, imo. Also veering towards AMD graphics, but Nvidia is fine.
Overclocking: Unlikely.
SLI or Crossfire: Crossfire at some point, possibly.
Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080/1200 but smaller resolutions for gaming will do.
Additional Comments:
Yes, I know it's a tight one. I'm making a new rig for a friend of mine and he doesn't have too much cash to wave about. I'm probably talking Micro ATX, PSU included kinda tower. Probably AMD, for the value (And probably FM1 at that, AM3+ is nice but even THAT is more pricey than I can handle)
It needs to run top end games smoothly (minimal settings is ok, average settings is even better)
So ladies and gentlemen, this is the doolittle raid of the PC world. Hit me with your ideas!