Gaming PC - £500?
- Thread starter Turtles
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No!
Personally i would save another 100 quid for it because i struggled to put everything thing to together underbudget.
But you can always go secondhand.
Really something like this:
Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail £95.99
(£112.79) £95.99
(£112.79)
Corsair VX 450W ATX PSU (CMPSU-450VXUK) £39.99
(£46.99) £39.99
(£46.99)
Antec Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case £29.99
(£35.24) £29.99
(£35.24)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775) £14.99
(£17.61) £14.99
(£17.61)
Intel Core 2 Duo E2180 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.00GHz (800FSB) - Retail £39.99
(£46.99) £39.99
(£46.99)
Gigabyte GA-P31-DS3L Intel P31 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £39.99
(£46.99) £39.99
(£46.99)
GeIL 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 800MHz Black Dragon DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GB24GB6400C5DC) £40.99
(£48.16) £40.99
(£48.16)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3320613AS) £33.99
(£39.94) £33.99
(£39.94)
LG GH20NS15 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £12.99
(£15.26) £12.99
(£15.26)
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (66I-01939) £58.99
(£69.31) £58.99
(£69.31) Sub Total : £407.90 Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £12.95 VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £73.65 Total : £494.50~Slash
Personally i would save another 100 quid for it because i struggled to put everything thing to together underbudget.
But you can always go secondhand.
Really something like this:
Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
(£112.79) £95.99
(£112.79)
(£46.99) £39.99
(£46.99)
(£35.24) £29.99
(£35.24)
(£17.61) £14.99
(£17.61)
(£46.99) £39.99
(£46.99)
(£46.99) £39.99
(£46.99)
(£48.16) £40.99
(£48.16)
(£39.94) £33.99
(£39.94)
(£15.26) £12.99
(£15.26)
(£69.31) £58.99
(£69.31) Sub Total : £407.90 Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £12.95 VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £73.65 Total : £494.50~Slash
I can do £488.61 Delivered.
At this price your gonna have to make sacrifices in certain areas, Forget fancy soundcards and speakers (Monitor has built in Speakers) & Mobo has 7.1 Audio so more than sufficient, besides if you cant get on with the speakers plug in your stereo speakers.
A Radeon 4850 would be nice but a Radeon 3850 @ £58.74 is a bargain, I am running the AGP version from Sapphire and im maxing out Cod 4 with no drop in frame rates, lags on Crysis but most things do, Will go much faster in a PCI Express X16 Slot & not suffer the bottleneck of an AGP X8 Slot and Single Core Cpu.
Motherboard offers an excellent upgrade path for Gaming with CrossfireX support for upto 2 Cards.
PSU should be enough although if you want to run dual cards its advisable to go out and get a better Power Supply
2.7ghz Dual Core Processor is fine for gaming and there is room to push it upto 3.0ghz on air but will need something better than the stock cooling.
Cheapo Case but with Power Supply Included Bargain!!
160gb Hard Drive should be enough for Games too.
All in all not bad if you ask me.
Vista 32 or 64 its upto you, 64 offers you the chance to get upto 8gb of Ram as another upgrade for the future.
At this price your gonna have to make sacrifices in certain areas, Forget fancy soundcards and speakers (Monitor has built in Speakers) & Mobo has 7.1 Audio so more than sufficient, besides if you cant get on with the speakers plug in your stereo speakers.
A Radeon 4850 would be nice but a Radeon 3850 @ £58.74 is a bargain, I am running the AGP version from Sapphire and im maxing out Cod 4 with no drop in frame rates, lags on Crysis but most things do, Will go much faster in a PCI Express X16 Slot & not suffer the bottleneck of an AGP X8 Slot and Single Core Cpu.
Motherboard offers an excellent upgrade path for Gaming with CrossfireX support for upto 2 Cards.
PSU should be enough although if you want to run dual cards its advisable to go out and get a better Power Supply
2.7ghz Dual Core Processor is fine for gaming and there is room to push it upto 3.0ghz on air but will need something better than the stock cooling.
Cheapo Case but with Power Supply Included Bargain!!
160gb Hard Drive should be enough for Games too.
All in all not bad if you ask me.
Vista 32 or 64 its upto you, 64 offers you the chance to get upto 8gb of Ram as another upgrade for the future.
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