£550 for 2500k based Rig - suggestions please :)

[panyan]

ive got a friend who's dad has given him a £550 budget to spend on components (he has already got monitor, keyboard and mouse AND has the student free windows 7 )

- preferably 2500k (for overclocking)

- decent motherboard ATX

- decent PSU

- well ventilating case

- 4gb ram

- decent video card preferably nvidea

- MAYBE a very small SSD just for booting windows from (he already has a storage 2TB drive)

what he does on his PC is a lot of Autocad work (which is NOT hyperthreaded ) a little photoshop, a little video editing, a little gaming

thanks guys

 

[panyan]

Does he need an operating system included within the budget?

nope, he has already bought a student license for W7

An SSD is sadly out of reach at this price point, you really need to allocate a good £90 or so to get one.

What you can get is the following:



YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £173.99
1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 460 OC 768MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £124.99
1 x Gigabyte P67A-UD3-B3 Intel P67 Chipset (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £104.98
1 x Coolermaster Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black (with 500w Elite Power PSU) £64.99
1 x Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £43.99
1 x Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus CPU Cooler (Socket AM2/AM2+/AM3/775/1155/1156/1366) £20.99
Total : £546.53 (includes shipping : £10.50).

^ some nice ideas there, thanks

 

[panyan]

NB: It's not 1600MHz though mind you

will that make a big difference?