£600 - £650 Gaming Spec

[Zacko]

Yet another spec me up. I've got a friend who's after a gaming rig that can play most recent games at resolutions no higher than 1280x1024 (He plays a lot of CSS). He already has a nice TFT and mouse/keyboard etc so no need for that, he would also like AMD (Dual core maybe?) and isn't too bothered about whether he has nVidia or ATI. I would do it myself but I seem to go completely overboard

Cheers guys

 

[semi-pro waster]

This might do, to go dual core with this basic specification puts it at ~£680 so to lower the Ram to 1gb would allow it to be done but I think the 2gb will be more beneficial.

CA-048-AN Antec SLK3800BUK Black Quiet Midi Tower Case - 400W SmartPower PSU (CA-048-AN)
£51.95 £51.95
MB-120-AS Asus A8N5X nForce4 (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-120-AS)
£49.95 £49.95
FG-000-AR Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940) (FG-000-AR)
£15.95 £15.95
MY-046-GL GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS3 (GE2GB3200BDC) (MY-046-GL)
£89.95 £89.95
CD-026-NE NEC ND4551 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer LabelFlash ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-026-NE)
£25.95 £25.95
HD-023-WD Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 80GB 800JD SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-023-WD)
£29.95 £29.95
GX-061-PC PowerColor ATI Radeon X1800 GTO 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-061-PC)
£144.95 £144.95
CP-150-AM AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 90nm (Socket 939) - OEM (CP-150-AM)
£119.95 £119.95
Subtotal £528.60
VAT £92.51
Total £621.11

 

[Zacko]

That looks pretty good, actually I'm sure he doesnt mind too about dual core just if it was possible in that budget.