Help with budgetish spec

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Hi all. Having read some other threads I've come up with this. I was wondering if anyone had any opinions.

I'm looking to spend £500-£600 on a new PC. I want something that can run most games, though i'm not too fussed about being able to ramp everything up to max detail. Obviously on a budget I'm not going to get that.

I also want it to be vaguely future proof and upgradeable. Hopefully to last me a good few years.


YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS HD 7850 IceQ X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H785QN2G2M) w/ Nexuiz, Sleeping Dogs & Dirt Showdown PC Games £149.99
1 x Intel Core i3-3220 3.30GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £95.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £84.98
1 x OCZ ZT 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply £63.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £49.99
1 x BitFenix Outlaw Gaming Case - Black £39.95
1 x GeIL EVO Leggera 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GEL38GB1600C9DC) £35.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
Total : £551.46 (includes shipping : £10.50).



I'm not sure whether I want/need a SSD or not. The only affordable one seemed to be at 128GB which I fear isn't much room by the time i've got an OS and WoW installed. I could always use my current hard drive for working files, and I have a seperate server to hold TV programs, music, etc.

Monitor/OS/KB&M not required.

Any comments welcome

 

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Cheers for the feedback. Have changed it slightly and added an SSD in place of the HDD. I'll use my old one for files.

I think i'll stick with the i3 for price at the moment. Am I correct in thinking the motherboard below will be able to support an upgrade of CPU at some point in the future or would I be better with the more expensive one that dunn2010 suggests?


YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS HD 7850 IceQ X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H785QN2G2M) w/ Nexuiz, Sleeping Dogs & Dirt Showdown PC Games £149.99
1 x Intel Core i3-3220 3.30GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £95.99
1 x OCZ Vertex 4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (VTX4-25SAT3-128G) £85.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £84.98
1 x OCZ ZT 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply £63.98
1 x GeIL EVO Leggera 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GEL38GB1600C9DC) £35.99
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £34.99
1 x Samsung SH-S222BB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
Total : £580.01 (includes shipping : £11.75).

 

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Building this now and I note the CPU doesn't come with any thermal paste. There is however some sort of material on the bottom of the heat sink. Is this instead of a paste?

 

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Pictures

Bit blurry as my phone is quite old. Now just need to go pick up a windows disc from my mate and find my mouse. It should be around the house somewhere... Never seen a mouse cursor in the BIOS before!

 

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Case seems solid. Found it a bit odd having the PSU at the bottom though.

I did find the hard drives slightly awkward to get in. But apart from that everything else went in nicely enough.

Much more roomier than my old case too which is a big plus.

 

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Well, gf has a spare mouse but it, like my keyboard, has a ps2 connector and the motherboard only has one slot. She managed to find a usb converter... but it was usb>ps2. So having to set it up using the on screen keyboard lol