i3 or i5 build for £500

Prian

Prian

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Hey guys, I have a friend that wants a new PC He has a budget of about £500 and would like everything including a monitor, mouse and keyboard, I am having a hard time trying to spec this myself, and was wondering if you guys could help me?
Thank you
 
Things like TF2, maybe a bit of call of duty. Gaming is not a priority but I think he would like a 24 inch monitor with HDMI and DVI so he can run his PS3 and PC.
 
I've gone over and not included a mouse or keyboard.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus VS228H 22" Widescreen LED Multimedia Monitor - Black £109.99
1 x Intel Core i3-3220 3.30GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £99.95
1 x Sapphire HD 7750 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £77.99
1 x ASRock B75 Pro3-M Intel B75 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £55.99
1 x OCZ ZS Series 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £45.98
1 x BitFenix Merc Alpha Gaming Case - Black £27.98
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV38G160C9K) £23.99
1 x Samsung SH-S222BB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
Total : £521.86 (includes shipping : £12.50).

 
Ok no worries.

When he gets back to you let us know if he can stretch his budget or if £500 is his max and cant go a penny more as well.

Also ask him what settings he likes to play in and at what fps. That will help sort out the GPU side of things.
 
Bacon? said:
I've gone over and not included a mouse or keyboard.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus VS228H 22" Widescreen LED Multimedia Monitor - Black £109.99
1 x Intel Core i3-3220 3.30GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £99.95
1 x Sapphire HD 7750 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £77.99
1 x ASRock B75 Pro3-M Intel B75 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £55.99
1 x OCZ ZS Series 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £45.98
1 x BitFenix Merc Alpha Gaming Case - Black £27.98
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV38G160C9K) £23.99
1 x Samsung SH-S222BB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
Total : £521.86 (includes shipping : £12.50).

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Something alternative to consider:
Drop the PSU down to a OCZ CoreXtream 500W: £29.99 (save £20)
Drop the CPU down to a G620: £49.99 (save £50)

then add the £70 to the graphic card budget:
from a 7750 to a 7850 2GB

Also rather than the B75 chipset low-end board, could consider a B-grade Z77 board at simliar price instead (but may be missing accessories or even backplate):
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BG-280-GI&groupid=595&catid=689&subcat=
Or just pay the £22 extra for the brand new one:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-391-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=2261
 
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Bacon? said:
I wouldnt power a 7850 with the CoreXtream.
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It is not a cheap and nasty PSU, and 7850 only require ONE PCI-E 6pin. People use it with Quad cores systems and graphic card that use both the PCI-E 6 and 6+2 pin provided and runs perfectly fine....and for this build it is only with a low power consumption Pentium (Sandy) dual-core with no HT.

The 7750 while is nearly half of 7850 2GB's price, it is also less than half of 7850's performance and with half the vram.
 
Bacon? said:
It may not be cheap and nasty but its not made by a well known OEM.
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No offense, but I don't see how significant the "possible" PSU issue is (there's no negative feedbacks who by users much higher power consuming systems), comparing to guarantee having only half the graphic grunt of the 7850 2GB. But of course ideally it would be good if OP's friend can stretch another £20 to get the OCZ ZS 550W. But if he really can't stretch that, then the OCZ CoreXtream would still do fine.
 
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If you cant go over by much and plan to put in a decent CPU later on this will do.

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI HD 7850 Twin Frozr III OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Cards w/ Nexuiz, Sleeping Dogs & Dirt Showdown PC Games £149.99
1 x BenQ G2255 21.5" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black £99.95
1 x MSI Z77A-G43 Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x Intel Pentium G850 2.90GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £59.99
1 x OCZ ZS Series 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £49.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 500GB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA050) £47.99
1 x BitFenix Merc Alpha Gaming Case - Black £27.98
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV38G160C9K) £23.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
Total : £557.86 (includes shipping : FREE).

 
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Have included a Z77 board, for future Cpu upgrade.
The monitor has a £40 cashback offer, valid until midnight tomorrow.
Also included a "B" grade Gpu, may have some accessories missing. But comes with an OCUK 90day warranty and after that, what ever Gigabyte warranty is left.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Samsung S23B550V 23" Widescreen LED MHL Monitor - Black **BTS £40 CASHBACK** £137.99
1 x Intel Core i3-2120 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £87.59
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £81.98
1 x **B Grade** Gigabyte HD 7770 OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express G (GX-101-GI) £79.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £45.98
1 x OCZ CoreXtreme 500w '80 Plus' Power Supply £29.99
1 x BitFenix Merc Alpha Gaming Case - Black £27.98
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV38G160C9K) £23.99
1 x Samsung SH-S222BB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
Total : £545.48 (includes shipping : £12.50).

 
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