£400 budget.

ash_scotland88 · 22 Jan 2011 at 20:53

Been out of the game for a long time, and looking to budget build for my partner.
Nothing heavy, internet, msn, spotify etc

Gaming would be sims3 style.

This is what I've put togeather but admittedly it was just a case of "meh, thats cheap"

edit, just realised there's a bunch of stuff I've missed off!

Thekwango · 22 Jan 2011 at 20:58

All looks good, but do you really need 2tb hdd, plus Eco range hdds are considerably slower than the non Eco versions. The F3 1tb hdd is only ~38 notes, with the saving you could possibly change out the gpu to this

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-093-MS&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1830

Which is quite a bit faster than the 5770

MrElve · 22 Jan 2011 at 21:19

Thekwango said:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-093-MS&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1830

Which is quite a bit faster than the 5770

+1
My friend runs this card and OMG is it powerful for its price tag. Plus the great HSF on it allows for some good OC'ing too

kristmace · 22 Jan 2011 at 21:20

Just need to add a PSU and a DVDRW methinks. Other than that, it looks like a nice tidy budget build.

Cookeh · 22 Jan 2011 at 21:29

Athlon II X2 or (even X3) would be a lot cheaper and more than sufficient for her uses.

How's this?

MSI GeForce GTX 460 Cyclone 768MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE 3D Mark 11
(£99.99) £119.99

AMD Athlon II X3 Tri Core 445 3.10GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail
(£49.99) £59.99

Asus M4A78LT-M 760G (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard
(£35.82) £42.98

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000528AS)
(£34.16) £40.99

Corsair Builder Series CX 430W ATX Power Supply (CMPSU-430CXUK)
(£32.49) £38.99

GeIL 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz VALUE PLUS Dual Channel (GVP34GB1600C9DC)
(£28.32) £33.98

Coolermaster Elite 334 Midi Case - Black
(£28.07) £33.68

LiteOn IHAS124-19 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM
(£11.66) £13.99

Sub Total : £320.50
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £12.50
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £66.60
Total : £399.60

Powerful graphics card, 3 cores (potential of unlocking still exists), 4GB of top notch ram.

shadow_boxer · 22 Jan 2011 at 22:15

The spec above by Cookeh looks bang on for £400. Faultless. Could always get yourself a nice Phenom II X4 or even Hex-Core second hand when Bulldozer comes out and people shift to that.

ash_scotland88 · 22 Jan 2011 at 23:38

cheers guys.

ashatron · 23 Jan 2011 at 02:12

Cookeh said:
Athlon II X2 or (even X3) would be a lot cheaper and more than sufficient for her uses..

exactly what i was gonna say.

Does she play any games? you could get the above build (from Cookeh) and replace the graphics card with a very basic one and say yourself £100.

You dont need much these days just for a general pc, internet browsing, music, emails, ms word etc.

ashatron · 23 Jan 2011 at 13:59

Oops I just spotted that she does some gaming - sims.

Then cookehs build looks spot on