£200 quid base unit as quick as poss, no case needed

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Hi guys. A friend has asked if I can knock something together around the £200 marker, as quick as poss, perhaps able to game a bit too.

He has an ancient machine at the mo so wants play a couple of games a few years old which his machine won't do. Too old to mess about upgrading :)

I have a case already so need everything else.

Mobo, CPU, RAM, 500GB HDD be fine, DVDRW, PSU, cheap wifi card, perhaps squeeze a video card in if poss I know it wouldn't be anything fancy.

Is it do-able? Any recommendations would be appreciated :) Already got Windows 7 so just the base unit hardware is whats needed.

Ta!
 
Cheers guys. My friend is looking to have as good a graphics performance as poss for the money. DVD and Wifi would be ideal really. Perhaps FM2 would be the best idea, would the CPU suggested be anywhere near something like a GT640, ATI 7750 or similar? Or is that expecting too much.

Think I have a spare PSU to help with the budget also :) 500GB would definitely be plenty also.

The case is an ATX one so ATX or mATX mobo would be fine, whichever is most cost effective :)
 
Ended up popping OcUK on Sat and going to £280 for A10 6800K, 8GB Avexir 1600MHz, Gigabyte F2A78M DS2, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM, 24x Pioneer DVDRW, cheap ACE 750w PSU. Not too shabby :)
 
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