£400 Build

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Hey guys, firstly can I say thanks to those who helped me with my rig a couple of years ago. Shout-out to Stulid if he's still around!

My dad is looking for a new build around the £400 mark, it will be used mainly for recording music (Cubase) and browsing the web. I'm not aware of how resource hungry recording and editing is likely to be so is £400 a suitable budget? Bearing in mind he was making do with a 5 year old Dell beforehand.

Is a DIY build the way to go here or do OcUk have something that fits the bill?

Many thanks in advance
 
DIY is always cheaper and I think you can get away with £400 at a squeeze, audio editing is mainly cpu intensive to the best of my knowledge. Il have a look to see if you can squeeze in
overclockable i5 but i doubt you will be able to :(
Is there anything you can salvage from the old pc like the optical drive and hard drive?
 
 
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This would be nice

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i3-2120 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £99.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) £87.98
1 x Samsung 64GB SSD 830 Desktop Series SATA 6Gb/s KIT with Norton Ghost - (MZ-7PC064D/EU) £53.99
1 x Gigabyte H61MA-D3V Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £47.99
1 x Zalman Z9 Plus Tower Case with Fan Controller - Black £44.99
1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BLS2CP4G3D1609DS1S00CEU) £43.99
1 x XFX Pro 450W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £41.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
Total : £435.86 (includes shipping : FREE).



Lil over the £400 for the tower. Does include a small SSD to boost loadtimes of the OS and software installed to it and 2TB of storage. There are cheaper cases than the Z9 but that case comes with 4 120mm fans, fan controller and digital temp display....a lot to like for the price :)

If you need an OS,monitor etc we will need to have a rethink
 
Thanks for the ideas guys. He will be needing an OS but he has a keyboard etc. He also has a hdd he can use as bulk storage, so maybe a ssd would be ideal for windows/cubase only?
 
 
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