Hi all,
I've got a non-techy friend who wants my help to put together a reasonably decent gaming rig on a budget of £400.
I suggested saving the i5 2310, 8gb RAM and optical drive from his old, bricked Dell pc, getting a cheap sandybridge motherboard, and putting it together in a Lian-Li case of mine which I no longer require.
That leaves money for a decent GFX card, PSU and an SSD for his copy of Windows (can get a cheap HDD for volume storage later).
With that in mind, my suggested remaining spec looks like this. A quick glance to suggest any glaring errors or hardware conflicts would be appreciated.
I've got a non-techy friend who wants my help to put together a reasonably decent gaming rig on a budget of £400.
I suggested saving the i5 2310, 8gb RAM and optical drive from his old, bricked Dell pc, getting a cheap sandybridge motherboard, and putting it together in a Lian-Li case of mine which I no longer require.
That leaves money for a decent GFX card, PSU and an SSD for his copy of Windows (can get a cheap HDD for volume storage later).
With that in mind, my suggested remaining spec looks like this. A quick glance to suggest any glaring errors or hardware conflicts would be appreciated.