£500 gaming rig

AHarvey

AHarvey

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My brother is wanting to put together a gaming rig on a budget of £400, but i don't think it's possible to get what he wants for that.

He's using an old amd 4400+ x2, 2gb RAM and an ATI Radeon HD 4550 at the moment so really needs a full system.

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Any feedback? I know some of the bits are the cheapest going but it's not for maxing out Crysis or BF4, he mostly plays Rift.
 
Thanks, I've passed both over to him and tbh, i'd probably pick up in store for him, I work 10 mins away from the new warehouse.

I'm now going to have to argue the case of intel vs AMD and Nvidia vs Radeon because

Price is a bit more manageable on those but the guys I spoke to warned me off AMD/Radeon things
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:(
 
Thanks for all the advice. I've been speaking to him more in depth today and i am wondering if we should scrap the HDD idea and go for a similar priced 120GB SSD drive to really boost speed.

Its mainly going to be RIFT and internet, maybe some coding as I teach him.

Then we can turn his old 4400+ into a server and later on bang in some 2/3TB hdds.

This a good idea? will it work? I know nothing about SSDs.
 
stulid said:
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The GFX card includes a BF4 and a Ruby voucher allowing you/your brother to pick from an additional four games.
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spec turned up this morning, took an hour to build and get running, set up the SSD properly. Windows score of 7.9, very fast and he's very impressed with it.

No haribo though :(


And the GFX card 4 game ruby voucher was out of date from the start of the year! :(
 
They don't even do the ruby offers now, just gold to bronze, nowhere to enter it from what I can find on my phone.


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