design me a gaming rig for under £600

[hayjoesam]

I'm going to be upgrading my rig soon and would love to see what you guys think i should do i have around £600 to spend.
Do i upgrade the one i have or start from scratch?

£600 budget
Mid tower or full ATX tower
Should i stick with AMD or move to Intel

My current rig [Case- Zalman Z9] [Mobo- Asus M5A78L] [Processor- Amd phenom X4 965] [GPU- XFX HD 6870 DD] [Ram- 1x8GB patriot] [cooler- H70]

Thank you all in advance!

 

[zakblood]

upgrade it,

so new m/b cpu and ram and video needed

 

[hayjoesam]

upgrade it,

so new m/b cpu and ram and video needed

Thanks what hardware do you suggest?

 

[zakblood]

1 x Z77 Gamer Intel Core i5 3570K 3.40GHz @ 4.50GHz DDR3 Ivybridge Overclocked Bundle £379.99
- 1 x Standard Build Systems - Approximately 5-7 working days £0.00
1 x Gigabyte ATi Radeon HD 7950 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £239.99
Total : £631.98 (includes shipping : £10.00).



a couple of quid over, can always have the next video card down, as it would be still loads faster than your old system

1 x Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7850 OC Windforce 2X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Tomb Raider & Bioshock PC Games £173.99
Total : £184.79 (includes shipping : £9.00).



like this one etc


Why You Should Buy This Bundle?
- Prebuilt and configured. Just "plug and play"
- Quad core Intel Core i5 3570K overclocked to 4.50GHz!
- 8GB of Dual Channel DDR3 memory delivers fast load times
- Intel Z77 Chipset for future proof computing

Bundle Specification
- CPU: Intel Core i5 3570K 3.40GHz @ 4.50GHz Quad Core CPU
- Motherboard: Asus P8Z77-V LX2 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
- RAM: Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 8GB DDR3 1600MHz Dual Channel
- Cooler: Prolimatech Megahalems CPU Cooler - Black w/x2 120MM Zaward Golf III Fans

 

[MiddieIndex]

i no this isnt my post but thanks for the info.

am looking for a motherboard and cpu bundle that will be better than the consoles coming out soon. ive £500, any thoughts?

 

[Doomedspeed]

The £380 bundle Zakk specced above is great...


If buying seperatly, the only thing i'd change is the motherboard to a Z77 D3H..

What GPU do you have middle index?