Complete PC set up for around £300

mentalmarriott · 10 Aug 2011 at 18:37

Im looking at building a pc for friend that has to be around £300 and able to play black and white 2 dawn of war 2, crysis 2 at a push. Any help from you all would be very much appreciated and thanks in advance.

stulid · 10 Aug 2011 at 18:38

Just a base unit?

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
AMD Llano A6-3650 2.60GHz (Socket FM1) APU Processor (AD3650WNGXBOX) with FREE DIRT3 PC Game £83.99
(£69.99) £83.99
(£69.99)
MSI A75MA-G55 AMD Hudson D3 (Socket FM1) DDR3 Llano MIcro-ATX Motherboard £71.99
(£59.99) £71.99
(£59.99)
Cooler Master Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black (with 500w Elite Power PSU) £64.99
(£54.16) £64.99
(£54.16)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500413AS) £28.99
(£24.16) £28.99
(£24.16)
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £23.99
(£19.99) £23.99
(£19.99)
Samsung SH-S222AL/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA Lightscribe ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.98
(£13.32) £15.98
(£13.32)
Sub Total : £241.61
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £11.25
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £50.57
Total : £303.43

Llano has a very good graphics core,

mentalmarriott · 10 Aug 2011 at 18:52

forgot to mention need monitor and keyboard. Its a push I know but any ideas and help would be very helpful

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stulid · 10 Aug 2011 at 18:55

You wont be playing crysis2 on a £300 machine that needs a monitor to.

Entropy · 10 Aug 2011 at 18:55

I think you will be better looking second hand if you want decent gaming performance including monitor and keyboard for that kind of budget

stulid · 10 Aug 2011 at 19:04

Entropy said:
I think you will be better looking second hand if you want decent gaming performance including monitor and keyboard for that kind of budget

This,

You really are going to get something miserable for £300 that needs a monitor and keyboard also.

Its a pity you cant afford a i3 2100 and a discrete graphics card such as a ATI 5770 as that would be great.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 10 Aug 2011 at 19:17

Does your friend have an XBox 360 or PS3?? Crysis 2 was released for them. It doesn't look as nice as the PC version but this would be the cheapest way to play Crysis 2 IMHO.

mentalmarriott · 10 Aug 2011 at 19:33

Tbh I think he was joking when he said crysis 2 so best to ignore that, still a difficult task and may have to go down the second hand route.

Monster ninja · 10 Aug 2011 at 22:57

or save more funds

Rik1254 · 10 Aug 2011 at 23:54

Yeah your looking at used (or mainly used) parts for a £300 budget WITH a monitor.

Considering a decent monitor is £100+, youll be very hard pushed for a £200 PC build.