£600 build for sons xmas.

[0ctane]

Hi OCUK,

I would like to build a PC for my son for xmas and have managed to squeeze santa'ess for a budget of £600

Now this is for the whole shooting match.....monitor, chassis, psu, ram, hardrive, gfx card and all the goodies that goes within.

Keyboard and mouse is the only starting point I can give him

The games he loves are civilization and football manager.

What can you do for me with whats available?

Thanks

 

[0ctane]

Cant see the thread, although I do feel I could inherit someone else's problems or have a well worked machine.

At least with new, you have protection and warranty should worse case scenario happen....2nd hand will be sold as seen and if it broke after a week there is not much I could do about it.

Yeah i can build it myself if required, that wont be a problem and operating system he can have my windows 7 as I went to 8 which I regret buying.....I dont like change :/

 

[0ctane]

thanks for that, would ditching the rewriter and putting the £18 towards upgrading one of the other components help?