gaming rig £700

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My friend is looking for a new rig, hes got about £700 to spend but he doesnt need a monitor, mouse or keyboard.
I havent done a new rig for a while so iam a bit out of touch, any ideas?
 
Antec Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case (£46.99)
Samsung SpinPoint F1 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD322HJ) (£38.76)
Samsung SH-S223F/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (£15.26)
HIS ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail (£187.99)
Asus P5Q Pro Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (£93.99)
OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 800MHz SLI-Ready Edition Low Latency Dual Channel DDR2 (OCZ2N800SR4GK) (£58.74)
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 LGA775 'Wolfdale' 3.00GHz (1333FSB) - Retail (£123.36)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775) (£14.68)
Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-620HXUK) (£93.99)


What i have been building in that price range for a week

For gaming its good, high overclockable chip and nice graphics
The motherboard is a this week only offer so buy now :)
 
Just out of interest why the 4879 and not the 3879 x2 ? there about the same price but surely the 3870 x2 is better or not :confused:
What about the processor is the dual better than the range of quads for the same price.
Thanks
 
The 4870 is definitely better than the 3870x2, and definitely the card of choice these days.

CPU is personal choice to some degree and depends on what you use pc for.

I like dual cores as quads are not yet utilized correctly, so a faster dual core (which is what you can get for quad core prices) will give you more gaiming performance. Quads are better at multitasking / video encoding etc so if you need to do this then get the Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - OEM instead.

The above is a nice spec though i would go for Western Digital HDD's over Samsung.
 
What res does he plan to game at?

But David-Stephens spec is good, though will need a 64-it OS to take full advantage of the 4GB RAM :)
 
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