£600 Gaming PC Review

[ThisNameWillDo]

Hi,
I've recently decided to build a new PC as my current one is struggling to even start-up most new games. My budget is around £500 (£600 inc Monitor).

This is what I've got so far:

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LiteOn IHAS124-19 24x DVD±RW DL & RAM SATA Optical Drive - OEM Black (£14.99)
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/176026]

Seagate Barracuda LP ST3500412AS 500GB Hard Drive SATAII 5900rpm 16MB Cache - OEM (£35.00)
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/186556

ASROCK M3A770DE 770 Socket AM3 8 Channel Audio ATX Motherboard (£51.33)
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/174597

G-Skill 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1600MHz/PC3-12800 Ripjaw Memory Kit CL7(7-8-7-24) 1.65V (£92.99)
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/180490

AMD Athlon II X3 440 3GHz Socket AM3 1.5MB (3x512KB) L2 Cache Retail Boxed Processor (£57.70)
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/235763

Sapphire HD 5830 1GB GDDR5 DUAL DVI-I HDMI Display Port Out PCI-E Graphics Card COD MW2 Game Edition (£164.49)
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/195442

Ocz Fatal1ty Series 550w Psu - Uk (£60.74)
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/192111

Antec 300 Three Hundred Case (£44.60)
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/143854

Samsung SM2333SW 23" TFT Monitor 1920x1080 300cd/m2 20000:1 5ms DVI/VGA Gloss Black 3 Years Warranty (£134.98)
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/158382

Total: £656.82

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These are currently all from Ebuyer so I'll probably be ordering a few from other sites if I find any to be much cheaper.
It's mainly built for playing newer games but also online games such as Second Life which are CPU reliant so I'm not sure what the best CPU/GPU combo is. The build was basically taken from the sticky guides but some parts are different as some listed pieces dont appear to be available in the UK.

Thanks for your time.

 

[bombat1994]

get this hardrive instead its faster and slightly cheaper http://www.ebuyer.com/product/146252

get this ram instead

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/192535

thats ten dollars cheaper for only slightly higher timings

i dont really know how you could save much more money on the computer

u could drop down to a 5770 if budget was strict but the 5830's got mw2 bundled so its a pretty got deal.

edit http://www.ebuyer.com/product/194682 slightly cheaper and i would reccomend gigabyte over asrock

edit http://www.ebuyer.com/product/179146 cheaper moniter i have it at home and its pretty good

thats about 25 saved

 

[mosox]

+1 for the Spinpoint F3 but the OCZ RAM isn't very good.

Mobo Gigabyte GA-870A-UD:
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/218937
RAM Corsair 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1333:
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/178943
Corsair 450W VX
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/131052

Alternative for case:

NZXT Gamma
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/178287

Alternative for video card:

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/232853

Check the prices in here too:

http://www.scan.co.uk/Shop/Computer-Hardware/All/CPUs-AMD/AMD-Phenom-II-%28S-AM3%29-Quad-Core

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/index.php

 

[batuchka]

Save a price cut the GTX 460 is a better buy than HD 5830 so less LCD we could nab @ 457 pounds off Ebuyer UK

 

[Silvune]

The OCZ Be Quiet Special Edition White E7 600W 80Plus Bronze Modular is a much better PSU at the same price as the OCZ Fatal1ty 550W.

 

[infernox_01]

this card could also be an alternative as your video card. comes with mafia 2 free. not sure how it compares to the gtx460 oc version but it is slightly cheaper.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-029-PV