I have been looking around at computers with a £500 budget there is not a large variety of gaming computers which are good (in my opinion) I've had a burst of inspiration to self build a computer, even though I don't know anything. I've watched videos online and I seem to have a very vague idea on how to assemble one from scratch.
So I began...
I went to a site what you select parts and they assemble it for you. Put in what I thought was a exceptional computer and see what they quoted me. This is the rig:
Case - Cooler Master Elite 430
Memory - Corsair 8GB XMS3 PC3-12800 1600MHz (2x4GB)
Motherboard - Asus P8H61-M LE/USB3 (Intel H61) - VGA
CPU - Intel i5 2550K - (4 x 3.4 GHZ) - Sandy Bridge
CPU Heatsink - Arctic Cooling Freezer 13
Graphics Card - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti - 1 GB
Power Supply - Corsair 800W Gaming PSU
Hard Drive - 500 GB SATA-II HDD 7200 RPM 16MB
Optical Drive - Samsung 22x DVD Re-Writer/Reader /- RW- Black - (SATA)
They quoted me £670.57.
Then I looked around and manage to get all the parts for £478.40.
Close to a £200 saving.
Now here are my questions...
How hard would it be to put together? (I've got no experience)
Is it a good computer?
Have I missed anything out?
So I began...
I went to a site what you select parts and they assemble it for you. Put in what I thought was a exceptional computer and see what they quoted me. This is the rig:
Case - Cooler Master Elite 430
Memory - Corsair 8GB XMS3 PC3-12800 1600MHz (2x4GB)
Motherboard - Asus P8H61-M LE/USB3 (Intel H61) - VGA
CPU - Intel i5 2550K - (4 x 3.4 GHZ) - Sandy Bridge
CPU Heatsink - Arctic Cooling Freezer 13
Graphics Card - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti - 1 GB
Power Supply - Corsair 800W Gaming PSU
Hard Drive - 500 GB SATA-II HDD 7200 RPM 16MB
Optical Drive - Samsung 22x DVD Re-Writer/Reader /- RW- Black - (SATA)
They quoted me £670.57.
Then I looked around and manage to get all the parts for £478.40.
Close to a £200 saving.
Now here are my questions...
How hard would it be to put together? (I've got no experience)
Is it a good computer?
Have I missed anything out?