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Budget General/Gaming System £400 - £450

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I've been out the homebuilding game for about four years, but after a nice rebate from the taxman I've decided it's high time that I upgrade my ancient setup.

APPROXIMATE PURCHASE DATE: Within the next month

BUDGET RANGE: £400 - £450 ($650 - $750 approx)

SYSTEM USAGE FROM MOST TO LEAST IMPORTANT: surfing the internet, gaming, watching movies

PARTS NOT REQUIRED: None, this is a completely new build

PREFERRED WEBSITE(S) FOR PARTS: Any reputable U.K. based company. Stak Trading is the closest locally. No second hand or ebay.

PARTS PREFERENCES: <= 20" LCD Monitor

OVERCLOCKING: No

SLI OR CROSSFIRE: Maybe

MONITOR RESOLUTION: >= 1600x1200 preferably for games unless that's too demanding for my budget?

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Great if the OS cost can be included but is a secondary concern.

Thats going to be hard. Depending on what gaming your doing.

Monitor will take out $120+ or a little less.

so your left with a build that will prolly use a 4670 gpu / 770atx am3 board / dualcore cpu am3 / 400cx psu / a cheap case such as the antec 300.

Just some of the parts to look at for a good quality build.

Yes I know the monitor will take out a fair chunk but Ineed to get rid of this horrible 17" CRT I've been using for 4+ years.

As for gaming I know I won't be able to make a machine that can run Crysis on max specs just something that can run current games at medium/low specs and that has the capacity for upgrading.
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I think I can knock together this with all relevant bits for approx £430.

AMD Athlon X3 8650 processor
4Gb DDR2 Memory
450W PSU
SATA 320Gb Hdd
PCI-E 512Mb Geforce 9600 GT
SATA DVD-RW
17" Flatsceen TFT

Onlt thing is an OS is going to run me about £70 :pfff: 

The AM3 x2 chips should be fine.

Regor x2 550 AM3 chip.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?Ite...
Heres a nice combo.


PSU, The 400cx Corsair is your best bet at this range of computer.

Would prefer you stick with the crossfire side since AMD boards have no sli "just yet" in stock.

4670 is good enough for what your wanting

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
Gigabyte
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
Sapphire.


Righto clubbed together this lot see what you guys think.

Processor - http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/AMD-Athlon-II-X2-250-Reg...

Motherboard - http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Gigabyte-GA-MA785GMT-UD2...

Case - http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/INWIN-EM009-Black-Silver...

Memory - http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/2GB-Corsair-DDR3-PC3-106...(1333)-240-Pin-Non-ECC-Unbuffered-CAS-9-9-9-24

Hard Drive - http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/320GB-Seagate-ST3320418A...

GPU - http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/1GB-Gigabyte-HD-4670-PCI...(x16)-1600MHz-GDDR3-GPU-750MHz-320-Cores-D-Sub-DL-DVI-I-HDMI

Optical Drive - http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/LG-GH22NS50-22x-DVDR-16x...

Total Price including keyboard, mouse, OS and monitor = £473.64

A bit over budget but I can stretch to £500. I'm not at all sure about the Case/PSU and am I right in assuming that the motherboard has intregrated networking? With the remaining budget would some extra cooling go amiss?

Alternatively for a bit less I managed to get this lot from ebuyer.

Case - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/135101

Processor - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/166519

Motherboard - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/170230

Monitor - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/128571

GPU - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/169828

HDD - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/124228

RAM - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/159919

Optical Drive - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/169683

OS - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/114048

Keyboard & Mouse - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/160333

All for a shade under £500 with shipping. What do you guys think?
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