Gaming pc for £400

[mjones1]

What kind of spec should i be looking to get for £400 with no case, no psu, no keyboard and no os and keyboard keyboard just hardware?

 

[Conan257]

Could get a nice little E8500 setup, probably 4850 etc...

I'm sure some people will put together a spec for you

 

[mjones1]

Can some one please help me?

 

[Cristian]

there you go.
just 10 pounds over the budget.

 

[mjones1]

Thank you, i think i could get cheaper ram, mobo and cpu

I can get all this stuff from rival websites for less so i will look into this.

 

[Cristian]

well i have no idea what the "policy" for posting links from rival website on this forum is, so I thought I'd give you something from here.

look for a e7200 then, decent 4gigs of ram (ddr 800), and a p35 or p43 mobo, so that you can also overclock a bit.
and if you save enough from there, go for a 4850.

 

[TheRedZealot]

Thats what i would buy

 

[eGu_Ryan]

As said in the spec someone gave me, I really reccomend getting the 500GB HDD for the extra £4 it's a steal. (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-058-SA)

 

[Slashiem]

Your basket

Product Name Qty Price Line Total

HIS ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail (H485F512P) £106.99
(£123.04) £106.99
(£123.04)

Gigabyte GA-EP43-DS3 Intel P43 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £74.99
(£86.24) £74.99
(£86.24)

Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200 "LGA775 Core 2" 2.50GHz (800FSB) - Retail £59.99
(£68.99) £59.99
(£68.99)

Western Digital Caviar Blue 640GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (WD6400AAKS) £48.99
(£56.34) £48.99
(£56.34)

Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 PC2-6400C5 TwinX (2x2GB) £33.99
(£39.09) £33.99
(£39.09)

Tuniq Core Contact Freezer CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/LGA775) £24.99
(£28.74) £24.99
(£28.74) Sub Total : £349.94 Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DHL @ Home Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £8.99 VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £52.49 Total : £402.43

 

[TheRedZealot]

All specs now will just be slight variants, the extra money will only really go towards a bigger Harddrive ect.

 

[mjones1]

I was thinking about getting a mobo for about £50 so i can get some other stuff such as a better case and i only want 500gb hdd since i am capped at 40gb a month dum talktalk.

 

[TheRedZealot]

All motherboards under £70 wont be that good though, if you wanted to add a case into the £400 the performance of these specs would take a fairly large hit in performance.

 

[mjones1]

I can go upto about £440 with case :/

 

[Loque]

I wouldn't bother with the E5200 as it only has 1mb l2 cache. I won't be very good for gaming at all.
Go for the E7300 or the E8200
While my E6300 only has 2mb l2 cache, it still bottlenecks my 8800GTS 512, and the next time I have some money, i'll be getting an E8200

 

[mjones1]

i was going to get a e7300 for about £90 but they sold out

 

[benwoodcock]

Logue, the E5200 has 2mb

Have you actually compared to a E6600 at 3.1?