Hey,
My friend has asked me to build a pc for him, and as he knows pretty much nothing about computers at the moment, has given me free rein to do what I want. He first asked me back in June or something like that so I've been doing a fair bit of looking around.
He will be using the computer for mostly gaming, college work and music and stuff. I think he's doing IT so will probably start learning more about computers. I wand to build him a fairly decent rig so he won't need to upgrade for a while, but also keep the cost down a bit.
Anyway, enough of the story and more of the computer......
I'm thinking:
MB- Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H
CPU- i5 3570K Ivy Bridge - Retail
HDD- 2TB Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001
DVD Drive- Plextor PX-891SA Lightscribe (or something like that)
Case- Zalman Z9-U3
GFX- 2GB MSI Radeon HD 7850 Twin Frozr III OC
The next bits I'm not as sure on....
Monitor- Something 22" around the £100 price
PSU- Something around 500w? Would like modular, was looking at a Cooler Master Silent Pro M500 because I have Cooler Master myself, but there seems to have been a jump in prices? Or is that just me?
RAM- Really not too sure on this either, 8GB of something, does it really make much of a difference when looking at similar types? Was thinking about some Corsair XMS3 PC3-12800 9-9-9-24 I found for £27.
And lastly a mouse and keyboard, which I have completely no idea about at all lol. I might be able to give him my old mouse til he gets some spare cash to buy a better one, but am waiting to hear back, so I am assuming he needs both. Looking for something not too expensive but that will do the job competently, and a mouse suitable for gaming.
So far with that lot I'm looking at about £770 without the mouse and keyboard, and I'm trying to keep it fairly close to £800.
Bit of an essay there, sorry
But any advise would be greatly received. Thanks 
EDIT: I also forgot to say that he won't be overclocking it for the time being so the stock cooler will be ok for now, and I haven't included a SSD to keep the price down.
My friend has asked me to build a pc for him, and as he knows pretty much nothing about computers at the moment, has given me free rein to do what I want. He first asked me back in June or something like that so I've been doing a fair bit of looking around.
He will be using the computer for mostly gaming, college work and music and stuff. I think he's doing IT so will probably start learning more about computers. I wand to build him a fairly decent rig so he won't need to upgrade for a while, but also keep the cost down a bit.
Anyway, enough of the story and more of the computer......
I'm thinking:
MB- Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H
CPU- i5 3570K Ivy Bridge - Retail
HDD- 2TB Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001
DVD Drive- Plextor PX-891SA Lightscribe (or something like that)
Case- Zalman Z9-U3
GFX- 2GB MSI Radeon HD 7850 Twin Frozr III OC
The next bits I'm not as sure on....
Monitor- Something 22" around the £100 price
PSU- Something around 500w? Would like modular, was looking at a Cooler Master Silent Pro M500 because I have Cooler Master myself, but there seems to have been a jump in prices? Or is that just me?
RAM- Really not too sure on this either, 8GB of something, does it really make much of a difference when looking at similar types? Was thinking about some Corsair XMS3 PC3-12800 9-9-9-24 I found for £27.
And lastly a mouse and keyboard, which I have completely no idea about at all lol. I might be able to give him my old mouse til he gets some spare cash to buy a better one, but am waiting to hear back, so I am assuming he needs both. Looking for something not too expensive but that will do the job competently, and a mouse suitable for gaming.
So far with that lot I'm looking at about £770 without the mouse and keyboard, and I'm trying to keep it fairly close to £800.
Bit of an essay there, sorry
But any advise would be greatly received. Thanks EDIT: I also forgot to say that he won't be overclocking it for the time being so the stock cooler will be ok for now, and I haven't included a SSD to keep the price down.
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