£250 to spend!

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Right i have bought the below and i need a CASE, PSU, HDD, GRAPHICS, DVD RW to finish it off.

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I got £250 to complete the system!
 
HIS ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card - OEM £97.99
OCZ StealthXStream 600w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 Power Supply £48.99
Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black (No PSU) £44.99
Samsung SpinPoint F1 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD322HJ) £34.99
Pioneer DVR-216DBK 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99

Sub Total : £213.00
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £12.50
VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £33.83
Total : £259.33

Subtract shipping and it's under £250
 
Here's my try comes in under budget, but the rest could be used to buy anything else, hope this helps

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Just under without the shipping...

Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 4870 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 4870 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £106.98
(£93.03) £106.98
(£93.03)
OCZ StealthXStream 600w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 Power Supply OCZ StealthXStream 600w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 Power Supply £48.99
(£42.60) £48.99
(£42.60)
Akasa Rev.4 Zen Case - White (No PSU) Akasa Rev.4 Zen Case - White (No PSU) £37.94
(£32.99) £37.94
(£32.99)
Samsung SpinPoint F1 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD322HJ) Samsung SpinPoint F1 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD322HJ) £34.99
(£30.43) £34.99
(£30.43)
Pioneer DVR-217FBK 22x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer LabelFlash ReWriter (Black) - OEM Pioneer DVR-217FBK 22x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer LabelFlash ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
(£15.64) £17.99
(£15.64)
Sub Total : £214.69
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £11.75
VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £33.97
Total : £260.41

EDIT: Although I would chuck another tenner at it and upgrade to the Antec 300.
 
1GB 4870 - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-091-PC
Seagate 500GB HDD - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-206-SE
Corsair 400W PSU - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-017-CS
Coolermaster 355 case - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-160-CM
Pioneer DVDRW - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-063-PO
Akasa 120mm case fan - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FG-037-AK

£241.67 inc VAT + Delivery (which no doubt you get free)

Advantages here are excellent GPU and 500GB platter HDD will give you best performance and 400W of decent corsair PSU is more than enough even if you clock it hard.

Hope that helps.

Hawker
 
Right ive bought the case, psu and dvd drive.

Went for:

Coolermaster 355 case - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...odid=CA-160-CM

OCZ ModXStream Pro 600w http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-206-SE

LG GH22NS30 22x DVD±RW SATA http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-090-LG&groupid=701&catid=10&subcat=951

Ive got about £150 left for the graphics and hard drive, im decided on the 4870 1gb but im just not sure what hard drive to get i want something that will score 5.9 in vista and is very fast.
 
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
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Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 4850 1GB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail £75.99
(£66.08) £75.99
(£66.08)
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Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (WD10EADS) £61.99
(£53.90) £61.99
(£53.90)
CA-031-OC_60.jpg
OCZ ModXStream Pro 600w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 Modular Power Supply £54.99
(£47.82) £54.99
(£47.82)
CA-155-CM_60.jpg
Coolermaster Elite 330 Midi Tower Case - Black (No PSU) £34.99
(£30.43) £34.99
(£30.43)
CD-067-PO_60.jpg
Pioneer DVR-217FBK 22x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer LabelFlash ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
(£15.64) £17.99
(£15.64) Sub Total : £213.87 Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : FREE VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £33.84 Total : £248.46
 
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