Budget gaming computer

gee3000 · 28 Jul 2008 at 22:54

Guys

Need a new computer for my younger brother, mainly for games and school work.

Budget: £450 +vat (£530 inc vat)

Need:

Case (antec 300?)
Mobo
Cpu
Memory
Psu
Graphics card
Hard drive (300gb)

Leaning towards a Q6600 but it's bumping the price up a bit.

Specs please!
Thanks!

gee3000 · 28 Jul 2008 at 22:57

Leezy said:
Does he need a screen mouse keyboard etc?

Screen will most likely be the 22" OcUK one, and keyboard/mouse will decide later.
He should be able to wait for those, so just the base for now

gee3000 · 28 Jul 2008 at 23:18

Thanks for the spec. But I should have mentioned - Intel and nVidia preferred!

Also please keep in mind - £450 PLUS vat

(£530 inc vat)

gee3000 · 28 Jul 2008 at 23:30

I've never had a good experience with ATI tbh (drivers, blurry display, etc), and own a 8800GT in my own pc and am very pleased with it.

Someone give me some shopping basket screen shots please? thanks.

gee3000 · 29 Jul 2008 at 00:03

Thanks Leezy - that looks really good.

Antec Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case
£29.99 (£35.24)

Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
£99.99 (£117.49)

Abit IP35 Pro XE Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
£84.99 (£99.86)

OcUK GeForce 8800 GT 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
£84.99 (£99.86)

Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2 Dominator PC2-8500C5 TwinX (2x1GB)
£49.99 (£58.74)

Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3320613AS)
£32.99 (£38.76)

Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-520HXUK)
£59.99 (£70.49)

Sub Total : £442.93
Shipping : £10.95
VAT : £79.43
Total : £533.31

I had this in mind, please advice on my choice of mobo, memory and gpu and why you chose the parts you recommended, thanks.

ps. left out the optical drive as we already have one from the old system.