Help with a new build

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I'm planning a new build circa £700 and I'd appreciate some assistance with components as I'm a little out of touch having not built anything for about 4 years. Any recommendations would be greatly received.

The parts I need are CPU, mobo, RAM, graphics card, HDD/SSD, Windows 7, CPU cooler, PSU & Case.

I currently have a 500GB HDD, sound card & DVD RW that I can incorporate into the build.

Usage of the PC will be mainly gaming and ideally I'd like it to last me around 3years (with minor upgrades before a full new rebuild).

Thanks again in advance.

 

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Cheers for the reply.

It looks like a nice build, but add to that a case and Windows 7 and I simply couldn't afford it at the moment. I should probably mention that my wife and I are expecting our first child soon so my limit really is £700 for the lot - maybe £750 at a push.

Thanks again

 

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Now I like the look of that, RJC. I've never gone with Intel before; always AMD so it's something to think about. Thank you.

I've just been looking around and came up with the following, can anyone see any major problems with it?

MSI GeForce GTX 460 Cyclone 768MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE 3D Mark 11 £122.99
(£104.67) £122.99
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition "125W Edition" 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £111.61
(£94.99) £111.61
Asus M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 AMD 880G (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard £88.99
(£75.74) £88.99
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599) £82.24
(£69.99) £82.24
Corsair Hydro H50-1 High-Performance CPU Watercooler (Socket LGA775/1156/1366/AM2/AM3) £59.98
(£51.05) £59.98
Corsair CX 600W ATX Power Supply (CMPSU-600CXUK) £55.99
(£47.65) £55.99
Xigmatek Midgard Midi Tower - Black £52.99
(£45.10) £52.99
Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD6402AAEX) £51.99
(£44.25) £51.99
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £46.99
(£39.99) £46.99
Sub Total : £573.43
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £13.75
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £102.76
Total : £689.94


Also tried the above build with the 6870 and although pushing the budget to
~£740 it's possible.