£450 bulid - Intel cpu and using XP.

I'd def advise you go for a Sandybridge build - the processors are rediculously fast for the money and overclock nicely as well - When your on a tight budget its especially worth it, overclocking your processor is free performance. The other chips do clock nicely as well, but not compared to the sandybridges.

Also completely agree on the 4gb of Ram. Clearly having 3.2gb of ram is better than 2gb and as said before you can easily upgrade to more ram if you start at 4gb.
 
stulid said:
You have less post's, and a newer join date, yet even you know more than 6644kp.
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no he doesnt you can just buy one stick of 2GB RAM duh! 12000 post and you didnt think of that!

save £20 and use that money to buy a game such as COD4 for that kid and he'll much more happy than 2 extra GB of RAM that he probbaly doenst even know what it is and cant really use anyway.
 
Guys, please keep polite with one another.

It's pointless going for less than 4GB's now, the cost isn't worth it. And using 4 ram slots isn't the best option as it limits you in the future. (with one stick, you won't be using dual channel either = less performance)

With that all said, I'd say grab Win7 64 if at all possible now, using a new system on Windows XP is just wrong :p
 
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Guys, please keep polite with one another.

It's pointless going for less than 4GB's now, the cost isn't worth it. And using 4 ram slots isn't the best option as it limits you in the future. (with one stick, you won't be using dual channel either = less performance)

With that all said, I'd say grab Win7 64 if at all possible now, using a new system on Windows XP is just wrong :p
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its just so funny when stulid gets so upset
 
I know you said no amd but this would probably do for your needs and only comes to £350......just giving you options mate .You could add an ssd or get windows 7 with the extra £100

edit missed optical drive so add £15 for one


XFX ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £88.79
(£73.99) £88.79
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Coolermaster Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black (with 500w Elite Power PSU) £64.33
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Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H AMD 880G (Socket AM3) microATX DDR3 Motherboard £59.99
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Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD6402AAEX) £49.99
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AMD Athlon II X2 Dual Core 250 3.00GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £44.39
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OCZ Platinum 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Ultra Low Voltage Dual Channel Kit (OCZ3P1600C9ELV4GK) £29.99
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Personally for just those games I would go with Stulid's SB build. It will last your friend a long time. The 5770 also does pretty well in most games on a 1080p resolution.

Not trying to add fuel to the fire, but £30 for 4gb DDR3 RAM, come on, who would not want to buy that? For a 2gb kit it's £18. I spent about £150 on 4gb for mine last year :(
 
 
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6644kp said:
well i guess your a pro then with your excessive schemes of unneeded RAM
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Stu is right.

You want the OP to do this:

Buy 1 stick of ram (don't even think OCUK sell that) OR buy 2x1 GB sticks for 18 pounds.

Giving the OP 2GB of RAM. He'd then buy W7 64 in say 3 months time, meaning he'd have to buy another 2GB of ram. Assuming RAM prices don't go up (and they're pretty much as low as they can be at this point I think) that'll cost him 18x2=£36 pounds. Plus, though a small thing, he'd have to open up his PC again.

Pro's = Less up front cost
Cons = How long have you got?

OR, buy 4GB of ram, costing him £30. He won't have to re-open the PC back up.

Pro's = More Ram useable NOW. Dual Channel = more performance. Won't have to open PC back up. Better performance, costs less in the long term.

Con's = around 512MB he can't use now. Costs him 12 pounds more in the short term.

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Unless for some reason you *REALLY* must go Intel, I'd consider AMD and put the extra cash toward a copy of W7 or possibly a GTX 460 1GB. That's just me though. (I'm an Intel user, just so that you know I've not any biased).
 
he said hes gonna buy it for a KID who won't upgrade it anyway so instead of getting around 2 GB of RAM get 2 more games fir the kid duh!

If he was building it for himself then sure get 4 GB
 
Sorry to hijack the thread a little but this question may help this person.

Would a cpu such as an amd x4 955be and using the £70 saved by going amd, on a better graphics card give better performance?
 
6644kp said:
he said hes gonna buy it for a KID who won't upgrade it anyway so instead of getting around 2 GB of RAM get 2 more games fir the kid duh!

If he was building it for himself then sure get 4 GB
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you are what we pc people call A CONSOLE FAGGIT TRYING TO BE CLEVER! now go cry to mummy about your stupid 2gb of ram and please please please learn about pc's properly and while your at it learn some common sense and logic to :o
 
6644kp said:
he said hes gonna buy it for a KID who won't upgrade it anyway so instead of getting around 2 GB of RAM get 2 more games fir the kid duh!

If he was building it for himself then sure get 4 GB
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Using phrases like "duh" are a surefire way to get your comments ignored. Please behave civil. In this matter you're wrong. Even if he never ever upgrades, 2GB of RAM is painful in games, I'd much rather have 3.5. Plus, you don't know he'll never upgrade.

You're verging on the territory of trolling at this point.

Also, Powelly, there's no need for such a comment.
 
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