£400 low end gaming PC with monitor!

honosuseri said:
Is it really

The PSU isn't great to be honest, isn't even bronze rated. The H61 mobo most likely doesn't have sataIII (there are only a few exceptions that do) to make the most of SSDs. Infact some H61s don't support Ivybridge CPUs without a BIOS update either.

The 7750/7770 isn't great value. I used the 650Ti boost for a reason. If he is on a tight budget he should try and hunt down a 1GB 460 on the MM (should be around £50ish) which overclocks well and will soundly spank the 7750/7770
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bah didnt see your spec, (the 1 with the pentium and the 650) that is better!
 
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Marine-RX179 said:
Memory is missing though...

Also for £60, a Ivy Pentium G2120 3.10GHz can be had instead of the Sandy Pentium G840 3.00GHz...but of course, not sure if that Gigabyte board will support Ivy CPU.
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Well spotted!! I did click buy on 4GB of RAM not sure why it didn't add into the basket....although even Gibbo said he had problems :/ The G2120 (basically equal to a SB i3 minus the HT) is £70ish here and as you say it needs a mobo that's happy with Ivy.

It doesn't even look like the guy is buying from OCuk. He seems set on that tiny case which in turn limits his mobo choices. £400 is an extremely tight budget for a gaming rig especially as the screen is eating massively into that budget (could he not use a HDTV for now perhaps?).

Hopefully now he understands how to strike a balance between the CPU and GPU.
 
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