My £400 build.

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1055t-£70 second hand

Crucial 8GB DDR3 Ballistix Sport- £25

icute black windowed case-£20

zalman cnps10x-£21

asrock 870 rev2 am3+.-xmas present

120gb seagate barracuda-£10 from a friend

integral 128gb ssd-£100

coolermaster silent pro 500w modular-£50

and the most expensive part
sapphire 6850 2gb- £140

blue braiding/heat shrink and some thermal paste-£10
also had to order some screws/plastic mounts etc for mobo/hdd.

dont think i done too bad, i know the ssd isn't the best but im a tight arse and wanted to save some dosh. I'm just waiting for the card and memory now which should be here on Wednesday, then time for oc'ing and bf3.

"title was meant to say £450 build"
 
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Not bad.
Personally would have gone with a 1GB 6870 for the same price.

For the same price, you could have made an i3 2100 computer, which would have whooped that, but you have 6 core bragging rights now :p

Now get into the Projects section and get some pictures up :)
 
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Looks good.
Got some parts pretty cheap. Especially the CPU. I want one for that price.

I would have gone for a different GPU too (GTX 460 AMP!) but each to their own.

For price it looks great.

Project log needed i think.
 
Reason was because i got that processor at the start of the year and its just been lying around gathering dust that i should do something with it.
 
Lap the base, and jobs a goodun....plus extra fan.
For the price, I cant fault it. Ive ran my 2500k passively while using the computer for browsing and some light gaming.
 
Fyi 212+ > f7 for the same cost, but if the zalman works I don't see any issue tbh.

I do find the ssd odd for a low cost build though. Windows caches very well once it's used to your gaming habbits and maps held in ram load up just as quick as an ssd. For the money I would have used 16gb of ram, a decent hd (probably WD black) and put the extra cash into a more powerful gpu. To each his own.
 
who in gods heaven needs 16GB of memory unless they are designers or the pc is a workstation... for gaming 4gb is enough, 8gb if you want it! 16gb = t00 much
 
I think you'll find 8gb is standard these days, and the performance gain of an ssd is pretty much loading levels, despite costing just a little more than an addition 8gb. On second though I'd have used the same gpu, but used the saved cash for a sound card which all bf games make great use of. We all use our pc differently of course.

If you don't understand the benefits please ask, if you simply want to tell someone they couldn't possibly need something please refrain from posting - it only ever results in a string of do I/don't I post which no on wants to read.
 
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I think you'll find 8gb is standard these days, and the performance gain of an ssd is pretty much loading levels, despite costing just a little more than an addition 8gb. On second though I'd have used the same gpu, but used the saved cash for a sound card which all bf games make great use of. We all use our pc differently of course.

If you don't understand the benefits please ask, if you simply want to tell someone they couldn't possibly need something please refrain from posting - it only ever results in a string of do I/don't I post which no on wants to read.
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Personally I wouldn't get an SSD for game loading times, even if it does help.

Boot up time, and generally snappiness of Windows is what I like about that. Just everything seems a bit faster. But like you say, we all use our PCs differently!
 
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