Budget (~ £350) gaming rig.

[ukbrainstew]

So after a little bit research, I've come up with a provisional basket:

For the price, I'm really quite happy. I've never done any overclocking before but just want to run the CPU at ~ 2.8ghz which seems very acheivable judging by other posts. So can anyone improve on this setup given a similar sort of budget?

Edit: Looks like I cut the price off, it comes to £351 after postage.

 

[ukbrainstew]

No idea about OCing with stock cooler but yeh 2.7-2.8 shouldn't be a big problem.
And 250gb for gaming nowadays is definitely not enough unless you want to delete every game after you played it for 2 weeks ;p.

Get some 400-450w quality PSU. Corsair 450 or OCZ 500 are pretty cheap ( 40-50range ).

Well I can get the same spec at a competitor but with a 500GB HDD and a case with better airflow for the same price which is probably what I'll do. I was actually planning on changing the stock cooler and included a better one in my basket at said competitor.

With regards to the PSU I'm thinking of spending a bit extra and going with either the Corsair 450w model or an Antec Earthwatts 430w PSU. I assume these would be worth the extra £20 investment?