Budget Gaming PC £500

CrygenF100 · 8 Sep 2012 at 16:01

I want to create a budget gaming pc for £500. This is my first build so I am not sure whether the components I chose are correct :confused:

. The components im not sure about are the SSD, Motherboard, GPU and the PSU.

Components List:
CPU - Intel i3-2120
GPU - Sapphire Radeon HD 7750 £79.99
or XFX ATI Radeon 6870
RAM - Corsair XMS3 8GB Two Memory Module Kit
MotherBoard - ASRock B75M Intel B75 £52.99
PSU - OCZ CoreXtreme 500w £32.99
Harddrive - Seagate Momentus 5400.6 250 GB Internal hard drive
SSD - OCZ Vertex 2E 60GB 2.5" SATA-II £29.99
Case - OcUK Tsunami Gaming Case £19.99
Monitor - Samsung S19B150N 18.5" Monitor £65.99
Some prices are omitted as they are not from OCuk

Total cost around £428.42 - £448.42 (Depending on the GPU)

Should i get the XFX 6870? Is the PSU good enough? Is the motherboard good enough? Is it worth getting the SSD? Can you suggest any better/cheaper components?

The rest of the money I can spend on peripherals and fans.

CrygenF100 · 8 Sep 2012 at 16:13

Reserved

Fire_fly · 8 Sep 2012 at 16:19

Do you need an OS?

Fire_fly · 8 Sep 2012 at 16:31

YOUR BASKET
1 x Samsung S23B550V 23" Widescreen LED MHL Monitor - Black **BTS £40 CASHBACK** £143.99
1 x Intel Core i3-2120 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £101.99
1 x **B Grade** XFX HD 6870 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £90
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 500GB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA050) £46.99
1 x Gigabyte H61MA-D2V Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £41.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 '80 Plus' Power Supply (CMPSU-430CXUKV2) £36.98
1 x Silverstone Precision PS05 USB3.0 Midi-Tower - Black (SST-PS05B) £35.98
1 x GeIL EVO Leggera 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GEL38GB1600C9DC) £31.19
Total : £545.60 (includes shipping : £13.75).

Looking at some of your prices they don't appear to be from OCUK, you need to remove them them before a mod comes along. This is what I came up with, just from OCUK. You also get £40 cashback on the screen.

CrygenF100 · 8 Sep 2012 at 16:40

Thanks for the advice. In reply to your previous post I already have an OS ready to install.

CrygenF100 · 8 Sep 2012 at 16:52

Is the case listed on my list too small because I dont want to spend a lot of money on it as im not too fussed on how it looks and I dont need a 500GB hard drive so is there any way I can just use a smaller cheaper drive and a small storage(60GB) SSD.

Bacon? · 8 Sep 2012 at 18:13

Worth noting the builder series are not worth buying. The seasonic 450W's OcUK have are currently the best of the kind on the market.