£300 build for a friend

Soldato
Joined
18 Mar 2008
Posts
12,751
He's already got:

.500gb hard drive
.4gb ddr3
.coolermaster elite 330 case
.DVD drive

so he needs:
.CPU
.Motherboard
.GPU
.PSU

For £300. First thing that came to mind for me was:
Gigabyte H55
5770
i3 G6950
Antec 550w modular PSU

Total £315

Can you improve this?

Thanks :)

EDIT: forgot to add. wants to play arma2 on as high settings as possible on 1440x900
 
Last edited:
Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Asus M4A87TD/USB3 AMD 870 (Socket AM3)
DDR3 Motherboard £86.99
(£74.03)
£86.99
(£74.03)
AMD Athlon II X4 Quad Core 635 2.90GHz
(Socket AM3) - Retail £79.89
(£67.99)
£79.89
(£67.99)
XFX ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB GDDR3 PCI-
Express Graphics Card £68.14
(£57.99)
£68.14
(£57.99)
Corsair CX 400W ATX Power Supply
(CMPSU-400CXUK) £29.99
(£25.52)
£29.99
(£25.52)
Sub Total : £225.53
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland
with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout)
Shipping : £9.50
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £41.13
Total : £276.16
 
better still

Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line
Total
OcUK Value GeForce GTX 260 "Core 216
55nm" 896MB GDDR3 Dual DVI (PCI-Express)
- (Grade A OEM - 3 Months Warranty) £101.04
(£85.99)
£101.04
(£85.99)
AMD Athlon II X4 Quad Core 635 2.90GHz
(Socket AM3) - Retail £79.89
(£67.99)
£79.89
(£67.99)
Asus M4A785TD-V Evo AMD 785G (Socket
AM3) DDR3 Motherboard £74.99
(£63.82)
£74.99
(£63.82)
Corsair CX 400W ATX Power Supply
(CMPSU-400CXUK) £29.99
(£25.52)
£29.99
(£25.52)
Sub
Total : £243.32
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland
with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout)
Shipping : £9.50
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £44.24
Total : £297.06

the psu will be enough, will just have to use a molex to pcie adaptor as the card needs two 6pin connectors.
 
+1 for Stulid's build can't get much better than that for £300, although I'd say stretch to a better PSU if u can, will serve him well in future wen adding or upgrading
 
Back
Top Bottom