Spec me a rig for £300

MadMan-JaMeS

MadMan-JaMeS

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okay so my freind has about £300 to spend on a new rig he needs

CPU including cooler
Motherboard
RAM
Graphics Card
Power supply
New HDD (decent size)

wants it to be able to run WoW resonably well.

maybe stretch to £320 if need be.

Thanks
 
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Im finding it hard to get close to £300, i dont know how graphic intensive WoW is but heres my go...
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Hope a 4850 is up to it...
 
Looks okay, swap the HDD to the WD black 500GB (£12 more and its faster) and the ram for this

That should leave a very similar price...
 
Pretty sure this rig would work with 400w, but its cutting it a bit though, and its a bit over budget, but I think its better bang for buck cause of the Phenom II BE processor, just get a decent Cooler and overclock it. As far as I remember, WoW is more CPU intensive than GPU, so this should perform a lot better.
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This one's just on budget, just perfect for the job me thinks. just cutting it a bit fine with the PSU again though.
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nevermind the memory I chose.. didn't realise DDR2 800Mhz price has gone up o.o and 1066MHz gone down significantly !! get the 1066MHz OCZ ram :p
 
You have 2 4850's? Why don't you include one of them to your friends build and give him it cheap so he can stay in budget...
 
New PC time?

I'm currently replacing my old PC, cause it blew up the other week.

What happened was I replaced my PSU with a good 550W Corsair one, then after a few days I found my graphics card second output stopped working (it was having fuzzy lines and flickering). I cleaned this incase it was the problem, but it still did not work. I had a fiddle with the power supply cables etc, and after this, smoke came out my hard drives (not sure if both or one).

I have since then just plugged in the PSU to the MB and tried an old gfx card. Now when I switch on the PSU at the back, it powers the MB, spins the PSU & gfx card fans, but not the CPU. I also get a green light on my MB, but it will not turn on. I have tried messuring with a multimeter on the PSU, and could not find the 12v on the 24pin (I might have just done it wrong I suppose). I've sent the PSU back, and hopefully they will find it faulty and refund me.

I'm not sure what to do now, should I get the pre-built AMD gamer rig (the cheapest one for just over £300). I can't really afford much more than £300, and think if I try and fix my old PC, by the time I have replaced the graphics, possibly MB (which would then mean getting a new CPU and RAM, as currently im running a 939, and it's all AM2 etc now) and PSU and HD, I've already spent a load, and may aswell get the full new rig?

Just wondering what you guys thought, is it worth getting the new rig, or end up replacing all of my old one, which is probably going to be more costly?

Thanks!
 
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