Cheep Gaming System Please!

to get a fairly decent cheap gaming machine...£250-£300 should be your budget. I recently built a cheap gaming machine for someone, went for an Intel dual core bundle with case, PSU, CPU and RAM and added a new HDD and GPU. Total for all that? £260 and the GPU itself was an ATI 4670 512MB GDDR5. He mainly plays flight sim games so didnt need anything more expensive than this...

Previous to me building the machine for him, he had asked a local PC shop how much it would be for a cheap gaming system to play such games. He was quoted £700!! go figure.
 
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Yea, I dont have access. Which is annoying! When I was looking for a cheap 8800 was when a GTX went for £60, remember sombody teling me just after I spent £50 on a 320mb GTS on the bay haha. But that soon died, RMA'd and I got an 8800GT OCX sent in return... not bad lol

But back on topic, you should have access to the MM, if you dont mind going for second hand components you can get some great deals. Otherwise your going to be struggling for £200
 
Most of my current rig is second hand some of it from the mm.

I may be able to borrow a gfx card from my brother until i can afford to buy one myself, just wanted a rough idea as to what to go for.

@Ducky Spud I do a lot of encoding avi>DVD and back thats why i said no the E1200 (I still got over 400 DVD's to encode for my HTPC!)
 
I have a system i'm looking to maybe sell, i'm not going to post the specs/price until someone confirms if this is allowed, or should just be kept to MM, drop me an email if you're interested.
 
Sorry but I just wish to say this... LOL
It's gonna be never cheap unless you don't want full option
Games do require extream performance system at full antialising maximum option
 
Hmm the OP is going to be verrryyy lucky to build something half decent with that budget... as said I would add at least another 50 quid to the budget to make it worthwhile.

This is the minimum I would consider to make it a worthwhile upgrade BEFORE adding a GPU...

Your basket

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Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3L Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £98.89

(£85.99)
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Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200 "LGA775 Core 2" 2.50GHz (800FSB) - Retail £62.09

(£53.99)
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Kingston HyperX 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel (KHX8500D2K2/4G) £42.99

(£37.38)
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Corsair CX 400W ATX Power Supply (CMPSU-400CXUK) £42.99


(£37.38) Sub Total : £214.74

Total : £247.88

Personally if I were you OP I would source ALL of the components from MM and put up a big wanted thread advertising for a:


  • E6600 - around 60 quid
  • Gigabyte DS3 965 - around 40 quid
  • Cheap PSU 400w minimum - around 30-40 quid
  • 8800GT 512MB - Around 50-60 quid

Buy the Kingston RAM new from OCUK.

That should see you right for around 240 quid. :)

Hairboi said:
I have a system i'm looking to maybe sell, i'm not going to post the specs/price until someone confirms if this is allowed, or should just be kept to MM, drop me an email if you're interested.
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Of course it's not allowed, that's the whole point of having MM access restrictions... it's either MM or nowhere on this forum so please wait until you have access before selling anything.
 
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Thanks Richdog what the sort of thing im looking for, only problem i have had with the MM is not getting in early enough :( to catch the first strike, and as i dont have web access at work its a real PITA!
 
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Thanks Richdog what the sort of thing im looking for, only problem i have had with the MM is not getting in early enough :( to catch the first strike, and as i dont have web access at work its a real PITA!
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Thats why you post a WANTED thread, you get first dibs when people offer you. :)
 
BigBoy said:
Thanks Richdog what the sort of thing im looking for, only problem i have had with the MM is not getting in early enough :( to catch the first strike, and as i dont have web access at work its a real PITA!
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Make a wanted thread, sometimes people don't bother making a for sale thread and would spot your wanted thread and take the chance for a quick easy sale.
 
Ok guys i have been on the MM and so far am in the running for 4gb of OCZ Platinum Revision 2 XTC 4GB (4x1GB) PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Series £16 2x2gb packs

and this bundle for £45

AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 2.2Ghz Socket AM2 with cooler
Abit KN9 Ultra AM2 Motherboard (I'm afraid I've not got the I/O Plate for this though)
2x 512MB (1GB) Corsair Value Select DDR2 PC5400 Ram

just need to find a good gfx card and psu now :)
 
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