Cheap old fashioned gamer build - under £300

arophous

arophous

arophous

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Hi,

My girlfriend wants to replace her laptop with a fixed installation and I offered to help with the build. We have a spare 22" vga screen and 250GB sata HD/64bit OS to go with the build, snagged spare mouse and keyboard from IT guys as well.

She wants to use it for playing older/indie games from past 5 years, surfing and a bit of blender 3d modelling. Anything between the £200-£300 mark would be great. I had already looked and was probably going down the integrated llano build but suggestions would be greatly appreciated :-)

Aro
 
My basket at the moment:

Intel core I3-2100 retail - £83.99
OCUK Battle 450W dual rail 80 plus - £44.99
MSI H61M-P31-G3 motherboard - £35.99
Xigmatek case - £29.99
4GB of kingston HyperX 10666C9 ram dual channel - £23.99
Samsung dvd/cd sata r/w - £15.98

Total - £249.42 inc shipping/tax

Would the HD2000 part of i3 benefit from a cheap graphics card added?
 
 
 
 
their is some amazing second hand buys out their, spend a few hours finding the bargains. but dont buy from overseas. it always turns up damaged or gets lost.
 
The OP said the rig needs to run older games and Blender is being used. Blender likes more threads.

The Core i3 2100 and HD6750 seems the best combination.

However,the OP should shop around though as there might be some good deals on graphics cards.
 
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I would go for 6850, 20 odd quid wont kill you, but performance increase would be felt strongly.I also would spend a little more on cpu get i5 or amd 8120 so in all you would overspend around £50 but get a middlish PC instead of something close to a slug. This is my personal opinion, I do not want to upset anyone :)
 
Lazder said:
I would go for 6850, 20 odd quid wont kill you, but performance increase would be felt strongly.I also would spend a little more on cpu get i5 or amd 8120 so in all you would overspend around £50 but get a middlish PC instead of something close to a slug. This is my personal opinion, I do not want to upset anyone :)
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Couldn't agree more, whats £50 extra at the end of the day?
 
A week's food shopping? Mum's birthday present? A phone bill? Trivial and frivolous expenditures, obviously... ;)

I would also recommend the 2nd hand path. I've just picked up some absolute bargains, such as a 560 Ti 448 core for £120 :)
 
 
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