£550 Spec me please :)

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Hiya!

Not been around for a while....but i need you help!

Brother has £550 to spen on a new computer. He has a monitor (currently a 17" CRT - but apparently next month he will upgrade to a 20"/22" flat screen), keyboard, mouse and speakers.

Just the tower needed.

He has a couple of games he got for christmas that his current computer will not run, he's having to use mine at the moment (quite annoying). The game titles include: Gears of War, Kayne and Lynch and Crysis, there are some others but if the computer runs the first 3 OK then it will surely run the others.

I'm easy when it comes to what kind of processor, AMD or Intel (might help him overclock it some time) A good quality overclockable motherboard. Whatever you feel is best. Needs a graphics card that will be able to run all the games at a nice standard AFTER upgrading to the 20"/22" flat screen. Roughly 250gb minimum HD space. 2GB/4GB ram, not sure, as he might upgrade to vista. CD/DVD RW, PSU

Case - not an ugly "gaming" case with horns, eyes, and windows, just a smart looking functional (good airflow) case.

Hope this is enough information for you to spec for me ;)!!

Thanks a hell of a lot if you spend the time to help me! I really appreciate it.

Mfrost
 
Just about bang on the budget, should give you a bit of potential for overclocking as well. :)

Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £64.99
(£76.36) £64.99
(£76.36)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3250410AS) £38.99
(£45.81) £38.99
(£45.81)
Samsung SH-S203D 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
(£17.61) £14.99
(£17.61)
Intel Core 2 Duo E2180 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.00GHz (800FSB) - Retail £45.99
(£54.04) £45.99
(£54.04)
OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 Dual Channel Vista Gold Series DDR2 (OCZ2G8004GK) £54.99
(£64.61) £54.99
(£64.61)
BFG GeForce 8800 GTS OC 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £169.99
(£199.74) £169.99
(£199.74)
Antec Sonata III Piano Black Quiet Case - EarthWatts 500W PSU £66.99
(£78.71) £66.99
(£78.71)
Sub Total : £456.93
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.95
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £81.88
Total : £549.76
 
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £55.99
(£65.79) £55.99
(£65.79)
Intel Core 2 Duo E2200 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.20GHz (800FSB) - Retail £50.99
(£59.91) £50.99
(£59.91)
Tuniq Tower 120-LFB CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775) £22.99
(£27.01) £22.99
(£27.01)
Gigabyte GeForce 8800 GT 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GV-NX88T512H-B) £144.99
(£170.36) £144.99
(£170.36)
Samsung SpinPoint T 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD321KJ) £42.99
(£50.51) £42.99
(£50.51)
Samsung SH-S203D 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
(£17.61) £14.99
(£17.61)
Akasa AK-ZEN-01-BK Zen Black Case - No PSU £29.99
(£35.24) £29.99
(£35.24)
Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-520HXUK) £59.99
(£70.49) £59.99
(£70.49)
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) £31.99
(£37.59) £31.99
(£37.59)

Sub Total : £454.91
Shipping : £10.95
VAT : £81.53
Total : £547.39

*EDIT* SPW's spec's better but without the tuniq tower.
 
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