Cheap Gaming/Maya Workhorse [Spec Me Please]

[artaxerxes]

My neighbour has an old DELL - so screen (19' i think), optical, keyboard, mouse et cetera are still useable, he can also get Student pricing on an OS.

He wants to play online computer games - nothing too modern - but it is FPS.
He also needs to do some MAYA for his college course work.

Could you spec me a £250 PC budget burner - and a £350 medium monster. I will happily build for him- so a reliable overclock is allowed.

Thanks!

 

[95thrifles]

Budget: uses onboard gfx

Coolermaster Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black (with 500w Elite Power PSU) £64.99
Asus M4A88T-M AMD 880G (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £59.99
AMD Athlon II X2 Dual Core 255 3.10GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £47.99
OCZ Platinum 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Ultra Low Voltage Dual Channel Kit (OCZ3P1333C9ELV4GK) £31.99
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500418AS) £27.98
Samsung SH-S223C/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £11.99
Total : £244.93

Mid range: Dedicated gfx and quad core, dropped mobo back as dont need the more powerful integrated gfx the other offered

HIS ATI Radeon HD 5770 ICEQ 5 TURBO 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £95.99
AMD Athlon II X4 Quad Core 640 3.00GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £79.99
Coolermaster Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black (with 500w Elite Power PSU) £64.99
Asus M4A78LT-M 760G (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard £43.99
OCZ Platinum 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Ultra Low Voltage Dual Channel Kit (OCZ3P1333C9ELV4GK) £31.99
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500418AS) £27.98
Samsung SH-S223C/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £11.99
Total : £356.93

 

[artaxerxes]

Those seem perfect. Will pass em on. Thanks!