£300 Gaming Rig

danceforfreedom said:
Wouldn't go with above, the dual core althlons have locked multiplyers so you will only beable to increase as much as the memory will let the fsb go up, ...............
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Have you never heard of decoupling? Or even down-rating ram in the bios to facilitate a decent oc which brings it back up to spec?

Frankly the Athlon II x2 are good for 3.4Ghz at the very least on just about any mobo these days.

Having said this an Athlon II quad or even an x3 is probably the better buy. That too is multiplier locked but can be oc'd just like the dual. The x3 445 in particular often unlocks to a quad with 6mb cache as this model seems to be exclusively locked down Denebs many of which were not locked down due to flaws.
 
HIS ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £93.99
(£79.99) £93.99
(£79.99)
Coolermaster Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black (with 500w Elite Power PSU) £62.99
(£53.61) £62.99
(£53.61)
Foxconn A7DA-S 3.0 AMD 790GX (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard £49.98
(£42.54) £49.98
(£42.54)
OCZ Gold 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Low-Voltage Dual Channel (OCZ3G1333LV4GK) £44.99
(£38.29) £44.99
(£38.29)
AMD Athlon II X2 Dual Core 250 3.00GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £39.99
(£34.03) £39.99
(£34.03)
Western Digital RE2 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000YS) £24.99
(£21.27) £24.99
(£21.27)
LiteOn IHAS124 - DVD±RW (±R DL) / DVD-RAM drive - Serial ATA £11.74
(£9.99) £11.74
(£9.99)

Sub Total : £279.72
Shipping cost based on delivery to paypal address, GU2 8AU with:
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(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : FREE
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £48.95
Total : £328.67

It won't handle CPU intensive games but it's the cheapest half decent gaming machine that I can come up with. I guess you could always upgrade the processor for him later on if he needed more power.
 
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