Help me spec and upgrade for £450

cainey

cainey

cainey

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Hi all,

My nephew's birthday is next week and he's asked his mum and dad for a laptop or computer to play Starcraft 2 on. The budget he's got is £450 they've asked me to see what I can come up with.
Finding a laptop that will run SC2 comfortably is probably not going to happen any time soon. So I've kindly offered to give him my old PC and with £450 I'm thinking I should be able to spec something that will do the job.

This is what I have

Asus P5B Deluxe (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler
OCZ ModXStream Pro 600w
BFG GeForce 8800 GTS OC 640MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express)
OCZ Gold Edition 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 Dual Channel
OCZ Platinum Revision 2 XTC 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel
Creative X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Soundcard
Antec 900 Nine Hundred Case

Things I don't have...

Hard Drive
Monitor
Keyboard & Mouse
Speakers (2.1 will do)

Any advice would be very much appreciated
 
sorry if im being a bit dense here, but are you offering him your old PC with £450 of upgraded bits for a bday present, are you offering him your old PC, and spending £450 on a replacement for yourself?
 
Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
OcUK GeForce GTX 460 OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £113.99
(£94.99) £113.99
(£94.99)
BenQ G2222HDL 21.5" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £103.19
(£85.99) £103.19
(£85.99)
Creative A320 2.1 Speakers (51MF0405AA003) £31.99
(£26.66) £31.99
(£26.66)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500413AS) £30.98
(£25.82) £30.98
(£25.82)
Microsoft SideWinder X4 Gaming Keyboard - Retail (JQD-00006) £29.99
(£24.99) £29.99
(£24.99)
Logitech MX518 Gaming-Grade Optical Mouse (910-000616) £25.99
(£21.66) £25.99
(£21.66)
Sub Total : £280.11
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £11.75
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £58.37
Total : £350.23


The system still looks quite capable, just up the GPU for something with more poke.
 
stulid said:
I wouldn't want to be using cheap nasty keyboard and mouse in the heat of a gaming battle.
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also, the OP's son will probably notice a really nice keyboard + mouse more than a slightly better.

my only other suggestion would be an old model SSD (your mobo doesnt have SATA 3 connections, which new SSD'd need to work at full speed). its a shame the ~80GB OCZ vertex one has disappeared from OcUK's shelves as that would have been perfect
 
Both spec's look pretty good there, thanks.
I wasn't expecting anyone to spec a new mobo and cpu so you've done well there anilkiral.
 
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