After advice on system

chili

chili

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I need some advice on building a pc for my son, currently I am an alienware laptop owner previously I built my own pc's to play games the last one I built was about 5-6 yrs ago and I think it was an intel i7 cpu have posted a couple of piccys of the beast





anyway onto my dilema, my son is just starting university he is studying art and media, video editing etc he also like's gaming ( wow and eve ) so I want to build him a pc that will play games to a good standard and also edit and render video in less than a week :).
the problem I have is knowing what spec parts to buy for this machine I am kind of out of touch now. he does not want a pc the same size as the beast I had he is after something more compact, but powerful and able to do the above.

any advice would be appreciated, price is an option I would like to keep the cost to say sub £600

Thanks
 
 
 
Is he going away to uni ? I have this case and I love it but its not a case to move around as it the size of a small wardrobe :)

If he is not going away or you are ok moving it around I would stick with the case after a good clean out it will be fine that will drop the cost of a new case and change to an ATX Bundle and up memory to 2 x 8 gig sticks ( just give OCUK a call to do this ) and with the other bits listed you will be good to go.
 
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What with the state of their RMA and warranty support at the moment I'd steer clear of NZXT stuff. Not worth the risk for the few £'s you save imo.
 
anthony566 said:
Is he going away to uni ? I have this case and I love it but its not a case to move around as it the size of a small wardrobe :)

If he is not going away or you are ok moving it around I would stick with the case after a good clean out it will be fine that will drop the cost of a new case and change to an ATX Bundle and up memory to 2 x 8 gig sticks ( just give OCUK a call to do this ) and with the other bits listed you will be good to go.
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not sure what case your going on about buddy the top piccys are my old case which is no longer mine as it got sold on
 
chili said:
not sure what case your going on about buddy the top piccys are my old case which is no longer mine as it got sold on
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Ah I see ... I thought you still had the HAF X in the photo .... in that case the Corsair Carbide Series Air 240 gets a +1 from me ... I have had a close up look at the 240 and 540 a few weeks back and they both looked very nice cases indeed I did however favour the 540 :)
 
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