£500 Spec Check

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I've been asked to help my neighbours son put together a cheap gaming PC on a budget of £400 (not going to happen I dont think) so I've put together the following spec, if anything can be done for cheaper without sacrifice or if any componenets could be replaced with better ones please let me know. I should also point out I'm a little out of date with what's good in terms of components!

Asus GeForce GTX 260 TOP 896MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card (Includes Terminator Salvation PC Game) £134.99
Asus P5Q Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £94.99
OCZ ModXStream Pro 600w Silent SLI Ready Modular Power Supply £57.99
Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200 "LGA775 Core 2" 2.50GHz (800FSB) - Retail £51.99
Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black (No PSU) £44.99
Kingston HyperX 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 6400C4 800MHz Dual Channel (KHX6400D2LLK2/4G) £35.98
Microsoft Wireless Media Desktop 1000 - Retail (ZHA-00007) £24.99
Pioneer DVR-217FBK 22x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer LabelFlash ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775) £17.99
Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.B 1TB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (0A38016) £57.99

Sub Total : £469.47
+vat & Delivery Total : £539.89


I need to add a monitor to this as well, he has windows XP already which will do unitl more funds are available for Vista/7
 
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swapped some parts around:D for better quality ones:D didnt think the TOP edition was worth it for the GFX

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and if u link your forums account to your ocuk buyer account you get free delivery:D
 
Thanks for the spec, I've added a drive to my OP as well (forgot that bit doh!!)

Free delivery, indeed. forgot that not purchased anything for my PC since christmas :(
 
Over budget but, includes everything...
  • OcUK Value L-2254WD 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor £102.99
  • Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 4850 PCS 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail £68.99
  • Gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3 AMD 770 (Socket AM3/AM2+) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £60.98
  • AMD Athlon II X2 Dual Core 250 3.00GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £59.00
  • OCZ StealthXStream 500w Silent Power Supply £48.99
  • Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black (No PSU) £44.99
  • Corsair XMS2 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 PC2-8500C5 TwinX Dual Channel (TWIN2X4096-8500C5C) £37.00
  • Samsung SpinPoint F1 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD322HJ) £34.99
  • Logitech X-210 2.1 Speaker System (970191-0120) £28.99
  • Microsoft Wireless Media Desktop 1000 - Retail (ZHA-00007) £24.99
  • LG GH22NP20 22x DVD±RW IDE Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
  • Sub Total : £459.91
  • Shipping : £15.50
  • VAT : £71.31
  • Total : £546.72
Download the beta copy of Windows 7

EDIT: Changed GFX to 4850 which would be better. Though out of stock you can drop the shop a web note to find out when they expect more :)
 
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thats a good sepc for £550, how would the 4830 fair with gaming on the 22" monitor?

Good idea about windows 7, I already have a beta downlaoded so I'll go with that :D
 
OcUK Value L-2254WD 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor £102.99

Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 4850 1GB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail £75.99

Gigabyte GA-EP43-DS3 Intel P43 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £67.99

OCZ ModXStream Pro 600w Silent SLI Ready Modular Power Supply £57.99

Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200 "LGA775 Core 2" 2.50GHz (800FSB) - Retail £51.99

Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black (No PSU) £44.99

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500418AS) £38.99

Kingston HyperX 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 6400C4 800MHz Dual Channel (KHX6400D2LLK2/2G) £23.99

Pioneer DVR-217FBK 22x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer LabelFlash ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99

Sub Total : £419.92
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £14.50
VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £65.16
Total : £499.58

Ooops gfx card is Out of Stock
 
Thanks for the spec, if I can keep it under £500 then I think its going to be doable, I might go for 4Gb Ram for an extra 12 quid which I can save on delivery anyway.

I'm not really up on ATI cards, but I take it the 4850 isnt going to struggle with COD WAW etc?
 
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