£400 or €450 gaming pc

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Hi all, I was wondering if you tech geniuses could recomend all parts for
a £400 or €450 gaming pc? I have a gaming laptop and I don't know if can I
re use the hard drive. But I have a mouse already so its everything including a moniter and keyboard. Please let me know if I can re use my hard drive, dvd drive and anything else. Also since I am in Ireland this is the only site I can purchase parts from, so the 22 pound shipping dosent count. Thanks all for reading and hope yous can help. Conor.
 
What are the specs of your gaming laptop? don't know what sort of upgrade you'd be looking at and do you really want to render your laptop useless by removing the harddrive? anyways here's my suggestion... Just noticed it was €450 not £ maybe someone could get the extra off.

YOUR BASKET
1 x **B Grade** Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7850 OC Windforce 2X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ Nexuiz, Sleeping Dogs & Dirt Showd (GX-100-GI) £109.99
1 x Intel Core i3-3220 3.30GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £89.99
1 x Gigabyte H77M-D3H Intel H77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £76.99
1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BLS2CP4G3D1609DS1S00CEU) £43.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020046-UK) £39.95
1 x Xigmatek Asgard III Gaming Case - Black £27.95
1 x **B Grade** Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500418AS) £27
1 x OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £432.85 (includes shipping : FREE).

 
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chris182008 said:
What are the specs of your gaming laptop? don't know what sort of upgrade you'd be looking at and do you really want to render your laptop useless by removing the harddrive? anyways here's my suggestion... Just noticed it was €450 not £ maybe someone could get the extra off.

YOUR BASKET
1 x **B Grade** MSI HD 7850 OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Cards w/ FARCRY3, Nexuiz & Sleeping Dogs PC Games £119.99
1 x Intel Core i3-3220 3.30GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £89.99
1 x Gigabyte H77M-D3H Intel H77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £76.99
1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BLS2CP4G3D1609DS1S00CEU) £43.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020046-UK) £39.95
1 x Xigmatek Asgard III Gaming Case - Black £27.95
1 x **B Grade** Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500418AS) £27
1 x OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £442.85 (includes shipping : FREE).

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Wheres the monitor and operating system ?


£400 for a gaming machine ,monitor and operating system is virtually impossible.
 
No monitor I`m afraid, you will have to use the TV. The "B" Z68 you will need to check with OCUK if it has the upgraded bios for IB Cpus. OS, you can use the Win 8 evaluation for 3 months until you have the funds to buy one, see link below. Also hav`nt included a dvd-rw, as you could probably get one off a friend/ family member. If not, you should be able to pick up a second hand one for a fiver.

YOUR BASKET
1 x **B Grade** Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7850 OC Windforce 2X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ Nexuiz, Sleeping Dogs & Dirt Showd (GX-100-GI) £109.99
1 x Intel Core i3-3220 3.30GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £89.99
1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BLS2CP4G3D1609DS1S00CEU) £43.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020046-UK) £39.95
1 x **B Grade** Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 (MB-364-GI) £35
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x **B Grade** Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500418AS) £27
1 x OcUK USB Keyboard - Black £4.99
Total : £398.90 (includes shipping : £12.50).



http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/evalcenter/jj554510.aspx
 
Andygully said:
be impossible to find a gaming pc for that price with a monitor
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Fixed

Best I could do

YOUR BASKET
1 x BenQ GL2055 20" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £89.99
1 x Asus HD 7750 V2 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics card £79.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00403) £79.99
1 x Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £45.95
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 500GB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA050) HDD £39.95
1 x Antec VP350P 350W '80 Plus' Continuous Power Supply £32.99
1 x Intel Celeron G550 2.60GHz Socket LGA 1155 Processor - Retail £31.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED34096M1600HC11DC) £29.99
1 x Xigmatek Asgard III Gaming Case - Black £27.95
1 x OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
1 x Gigabyte KM6150 Keyboard and Mouse Set £9.98
Total : £507.18 (includes shipping : £17.85).

 
ExRayTed said:
Fixed

Best I could do

YOUR BASKET
1 x BenQ GL2055 20" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £89.99
1 x Asus HD 7750 V2 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics card £79.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00403) £79.99
1 x Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £45.95
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 500GB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA050) HDD £39.95
1 x Antec VP350P 350W '80 Plus' Continuous Power Supply £32.99
1 x Intel Celeron G550 2.60GHz Socket LGA 1155 Processor - Retail £31.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED34096M1600HC11DC) £29.99
1 x Xigmatek Asgard III Gaming Case - Black £27.95
1 x OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
1 x Gigabyte KM6150 Keyboard and Mouse Set £9.98
Total : £507.18 (includes shipping : £17.85).

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Only a £100 over budget, so hardly FIXED. :D

recomend all parts for
a £400 or €450 gaming pc?.........so the 22 pound shipping dosent count.
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This is just about in budget if you get Win 7 elsewhere (about £50 on top). It's not exactly wonderful, but it'd work as a budget gaming PC. It would run most games very well at 720p, and with reduced settings at 1080p. It's got a low quality PSU, but it draws very little power so it'd be fine.

£10 extra would get an A10-5800K, which would be well worth it.

YOUR BASKET
1 x BenQ GW2255 22" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £89.99
1 x AMD A8-6500 3.50GHz (Socket FM2) APU Richland Quad Core Processor (AD6500OKHLBOX) £89.99
1 x Asus F2A55-M LE AMD A55 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £46.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 500GB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA050) HDD £39.95
1 x Imp MicroATX Tower Case (500w PSU) £31.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED34096M1600HC11DC) £29.99
1 x Samsung SH-118AB/BEBE SATA 18x DVD-ROM (Black) - OEM £12.95
1 x Gigabyte K7100 Stylish Keyboard £8.99
Total : £363.43 (includes shipping : £10.50).



At 1280x800 even Crysis 2 is fine:

http://static.techspot.com/articles-info/580/bench/IGP_06.png
No hotlinked images. Thank you.
 
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I've just finished building my rig and was a total cost of 400 without monitor and GPU.

Corsair 200r case £50
Intel i3 3220 3.3ghz £90ish
Gigabyte B75m-D3H Mobo £60
2x4gb Corsair XMS3 RAM £50
Corsair CX500w PSU £40
Cooler master evo 3 cooler 20
Win7 OEM £40
WD 1tb HDD £50
DVD drive £15

That's £415.
Then buy a HD7850 from OCuk and with it you get 8 games which you can sell for about £75 so the gpu costs £90 basically...


£500 without monitor (actually what I've done)
 
conorkvngh said:
Hi all, I was wondering if you tech geniuses could recomend all parts for
a £400 or €450 gaming pc? I have a gaming laptop and I don't know if can I
re use the hard drive. But I have a mouse already so its everything including a moniter and keyboard. Please let me know if I can re use my hard drive, dvd drive and anything else. Also since I am in Ireland this is the only site I can purchase parts from, so the 22 pound shipping dosent count. Thanks all for reading and hope yous can help. Conor.
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best i can do:
YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A10-6800K Black Edition 4.10GHz (Socket FM2) APU Richland Quad Core Processor (AD680KWOHLBOX) £119.99
1 x BenQ GL2055 20" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £89.99
1 x Xigmatek Tauro 500W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £43.99
1 x ASRock FM2A55M-DGS AMD A55 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £39.95
1 x Xigmatek Asgard III Windowed Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x GeIL Black Dragon 4GB (1x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Single Module (GD34GB1600C11SC) £31.99
1 x **B Grade** Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500418AS) £27.00
1 x OcUK USB Keyboard - Black £4.99
Total : £412.31 (includes shipping : £17.85).





your windows on the laptop is retail or oem, also use the windows as the 8.1 preview and after buy one
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/preview-download

the cpu igp is very good, and after buy a 7750 to do hybrid crosfire(that budget is tiny, try to save up more
MHD
 
Here's a revision of my earlier suggestion.

This would be a reasonably good very low budget gaming PC + monitor. If you can afford any extra I'd put in a better CPU cooler (£15-£20), as if you overclocked this you'd get a good 20% extra performance in games.

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A10-5800K Black Edition 3.80GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor **FREE SIMCITY PC GAME** (AD580KWOHJBOX) £99.95
1 x BenQ GW2255 22" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £89.99
1 x Asus F2A55-M LE AMD A55 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £46.99
1 x Imp MicroATX Tower Case (500w PSU) £31.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED34096M1600HC11DC) £29.99
1 x **B Grade** Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500418AS) £27
1 x Samsung SH-118AB/BEBE SATA 18x DVD-ROM (Black) - OEM £12.95
1 x Gigabyte K7100 Stylish Keyboard £8.99
Total : £349.44 (does not include shipping).

 
a bigger upgrade form the eralier post from the teppic:

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A10-5800K Black Edition 3.80GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor **FREE SIMCITY PC GAME** (AD580KWOHJBOX) £99.95
1 x BenQ GW2255 22" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £89.99
1 x Asus F2A55-M LE AMD A55 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £46.99
1 x Xigmatek Asgard III Windowed Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED34096M1600HC11DC) £29.99
1 x **B Grade** Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500418AS) £27.00
1 x Alpenföhn Civetta CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1150 / 1155 / 1156 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £12.98
1 x Samsung SH-118AB/BEBE SATA 18x DVD-ROM (Black) - OEM £12.95
1 x Gigabyte K7100 Stylish Keyboard £8.99
1 x Akasa "Vegas" Blue LED strip light - 60cm £8.99
1 x Xigmatek 75 in 1 3.5" Internal Card Reader - (CPH-7SPNU-U01) £4.99
Total : £375.80 (doesnt include shiping).





change the color of the light or remove it if you dont want it, fan chosen for the rating, the memory card chosen from the rating and cheaper
MHD
 
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