Building a gaming PC with £500-£600 budget (any help please)

liampope940

liampope940

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It is my first time building a gaming PC and looking to find the best components with a low budget of £500-£600 that will play Diablo 3 and SWTOR any help please.
 
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i3-2120 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £99.95
1 x MSI HD 6850 OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £83.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) £74.99
1 x OCZ ZS Series 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £49.99
1 x Zalman Z9 Plus Tower Case with Fan Controller - Black £44.99
1 x Patriot Viper Xtreme 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PXD38G1600LLK) £39.95
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
Total : £503.83 (includes shipping : £12.50).



Good budget case with 4 120mm fans for cooling, digital temp display and fan controller. The cooling is important as i went with the 6850 as i would suggest you overclock that to get close to the 6870 for less cash.

It's still £100 under budget, once I know exactly what you need or don't need we can tweak it. You could get an i5K CPU in maybe or a much better GPU or even a SSD.

EDIT

Just seen your post......so you need a screen, keyboard, we can skip the OS if you download the developers copy of windows 8 for now ;)

YOUR BASKET
1 x OcUK E2250SWDA 22" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £99.95
1 x Intel Core i3-2120 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £99.95
1 x MSI HD 6850 OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £83.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £54.98
1 x OCZ ZS Series 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £49.99
1 x Zalman Z9 Plus Tower Case with Fan Controller - Black £44.99
1 x Patriot Viper Xtreme 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PXD38G1600LLK) £39.95
1 x OcUK Ultra-Slim Wirelesss Desktop Set (6311ARF) £19.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
Total : £611.69 (includes shipping : £19.10).

 
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RJC said:
Spec below, assuming you don't need anything else :)


YOUR BASKET
1 x XFX HD 6870 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £119.99
1 x Intel Core i3-2120 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £99.95
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £54.98
1 x OCZ ZS Series 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £49.99
1 x Cooler Master Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black £39.98
1 x Kingston Blu 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9AD3B1K2/4G) £23.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
Total : £498.86 (includes shipping : £12.50).

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Thank you I will look in to it, I was looking into getting a i5 intel processer will that change any components you have put down?
 
Slightly over, did not include KB or mouse:


YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i3-2120 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £99.95
1 x OcUK E2250SWDA 22" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £99.95
1 x MSI HD 6850 OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £83.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £79.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £54.98
1 x OCZ ZS Series 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £49.99
1 x Gigabyte H61M-S2PV Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £46.99
1 x Cooler Master Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black £39.98
1 x Kingston Blu 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9AD3B1K2/4G) £23.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
Total : £617.71 (includes shipping : £19.10).

 
Thank you both you have given me some ideas to think about, I won't be buying it all in one I am going to be buying it over a couple of months, so it good you have kept close to the budget thank you.
 
The Z77 also has lucid MVP it uses the CPUs IGP to boost the GPU. So overclocking the 6850 makes sense so it's being boosted twice :)

I wouldn't pay £120 for the 6870. The Nvidia 460 is basically the same price and can be overclocked to the same speed. The 460 adds cuda support and HDAO lighting, nice but is it worth £40 over the 6850? ;)
 
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