£500ish Gaming Pc

bryanlaycock · 17 Dec 2008 at 15:42

Hey been out of the loop for a year now not sure what's been going on in the world of PCs! Looking for a gaming PC got a monitor/mouse/keyboard and windows disk. just need a computer! Ive got around £500 to spend
Many Thanks

siuko · 17 Dec 2008 at 15:53

The best thing to do to start with is give more specifics:

What native resolution does your monitor run in - what resolution to do want to play in?

What games do you want to play?
Do the games have to have all graphics at max?

Etc

Ranger07 · 17 Dec 2008 at 15:59

£500 is quite a tight budget for a gaming spec PC, this is what i can come up with which is a bit over your budget.

Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Zotac AMP GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £129.99
(£149.49) £129.99
(£149.49)
Abit IP35 Pro XE Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £84.99
(£97.74) £84.99
(£97.74)
Intel Core 2 Duo E7300 LGA775 'Wolfdale' 2.66GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £83.99
(£96.59) £83.99
(£96.59)
OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel Platinum Series DDR2 (OCZ2P10664GK) £54.99
(£63.24) £54.99
(£63.24)
Akasa Ultra Quiet 500W Paxpower Active PFC ATX2.2 PSU - Black Nickel £44.99
(£51.74) £44.99
(£51.74)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (ST3500320AS) £39.99
(£45.99) £39.99
(£45.99)
Thermalright TRUE Black 120 CPU Cooler (Socket AM2/LGA775) £34.99
(£40.24) £34.99
(£40.24)
Coolermaster Elite 330 Midi Tower Case - Black (No PSU) £25.99
(£29.89) £25.99
(£29.89)
Pioneer DVR-216DBK 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
(£19.54) £16.99
(£19.54)
Sub Total : £516.91
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DHL Select Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.99
VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £77.54
Total : £594.45

For that set up you'd need a 64bit OS, If its not then knock off 2gb of ram and save £30.

Kanifee · 17 Dec 2008 at 16:08

Id do this and say it wasnt a tight budget atall, id say that sa pretty respectable gaming tower indeed!

You would need to overclock the CPU but its a given that it will do 2.7 and 3.0Ghz is obtainable id wager, gigabyte are respectable overclockers and pretty easy to do aswell

Ranger07 · 17 Dec 2008 at 16:20

damian666 said:
Id do this and say it wasnt a tight budget atall, id say that sa pretty respectable gaming tower indeed!

You would need to overclock the CPU but its a given that it will do 2.7 and 3.0Ghz is obtainable id wager, gigabyte are respectable overclockers and pretty easy to do aswell

Its a good spec but you missed out a cpu cooler for the overclocking and a dvd drive.

ro55o · 17 Dec 2008 at 16:24

Menta · 17 Dec 2008 at 16:31

Why not have a look in this thread: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17883751

Good luck mate,

ro55o · 17 Dec 2008 at 16:38

Menta said:
Why not have a look in this thread: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17883751

Good luck mate,

It hasn't been updated in 3 weeks, there are a few offers on this week and a few price changes. But it will give the OP an idea of what's available to him at this budget, which should be a decent gaming spec.

The £500 tower spec on that thread is similar to mine, you could change the PSU to the corsair 450W, save a bit of cash, it'll be more than enough to power the system.

Menta · 17 Dec 2008 at 16:53

Oh sorry I missed that. Thought he kept on updating that stuff.

Corsair psu is definitely THE psu to have. 450w will do fine as well. I have a 650w, but just to be safe a few years ahead.

ro55o · 17 Dec 2008 at 16:59

Yeah, shaffaaf27's thread is the place to go, but it's a lot of work to keep it all up to date, prices and offers keep changing at a pretty quick rate.

On a budget the corsair 450W is a good buy, they get a great name on here. I know what you mean by having a bit extra, I'm stuck with a 500W PSU the now, looking to upgrade the PC in a few months to something a bit more power hungry, so gonna have to get a beefier PSU.