Build for a friend

[allosunshine]

My mate is gonna have around £800 to spend at the end of november so would like advice from the wise world of these forums on as good as spec as he can get for his money. He has a monitor and keyboard and mouse he's going to reuse and it will be used primarily for gaming.
Thanks.

 

[mishima]

This in my opinion is how to spend £800 on a gaming system. Here you get Quad core with an extremely reputable after-market cooler to overclock along-side the Gigabyte motherboard and Geil RAM so that you can gain a decent overclock. You also get a GTX in there for hi res gaming - what monitor does he have btw?

Gigabyte GA_P35_DS3P (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
(£88.11)

Antec NeoHE 550W Modular ATX2.0 PSU
(£70.49)

Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 OEM
(£159.79)

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC)
(£37.59)

Samsung SpinPoint S 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD250HJ)
(£42.29)

Samsung SH-S203NBEBN 20x20 DVD±RW Dual Layer Serial ATA Lightscribe ReWriter (Black) - OEM
(£22.31)

Noctua NH-U12F CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/LGA775)
(£39.94)

Akasa AK-ZEN-01-BK Zen Black Case - No PSU

OcUK GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - OEM
(£299.61)

Shipping : £10.95

Total : £804.71

 

[semi-pro waster]

I'd try but I can't improve on that, a couple of changes that I might consider simply come down to personal preference so I reckon you won't get much better than that.

 

[Cr0fty]

£864.61

If he doesn't want to overclock then take off the heatsink, thermal paste, and OS if he already has windows

EDIT: & The case can be changed for a cheaper one. Or a p182

 

[hp7909]

My mate is gonna have around £800 to spend at the end of november so would like advice from the wise world of these forums on as good as spec as he can get for his money.

Enough time to see how the new GFXs coming out next week fair, though outlook very good Christmas this year might be early for some of us

In the meantime...