Hey everyone I'm thinking of building my own gaming/entertainment pc. I have never built a pc before but I have experience changing graphic cards and ram (I know its easy 
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Here are the parts I'm thinking of ordering:
22" Widescreen LED Monitor £90.00
MSI HD 7770 GHz Edition 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £90.00
Intel Core i3-3220 3.30GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £89.99
Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £40.00
Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA100) £54.98
Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1600 MHz Dual Channel Kit £30.00
Corsair Builder Series CX 500W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' £40.00
NZXT source 210 white Tower £35.00
Asus 24x DVD±RW DRW-24B5ST SATA ReWriter - Black (Retail) £20.99
OCZ Technology 60GB SATA 2.5" Solid State Drive SSD £40.00
Operating System windows 8 £60.00
It would cost around £590, my budget is £600 max.
What do you guys think? I am not that worried about building it, i'm more worried about getting the right parts.
I have heard good things about the i3 3220 and the gpu.
As long as it can play all the current games on max/high settings it would be ok. The processor also does a lot for the price.
Tbh the cheaper the system the better, originally I was planning on spending £500 but that was before I knew that getting a good psu and a good Tower was important. Also I did not have in mind a SSD.
Any input would be greatly appreciated x
).Here are the parts I'm thinking of ordering:
22" Widescreen LED Monitor £90.00
MSI HD 7770 GHz Edition 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £90.00
Intel Core i3-3220 3.30GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £89.99
Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £40.00
Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA100) £54.98
Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1600 MHz Dual Channel Kit £30.00
Corsair Builder Series CX 500W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' £40.00
NZXT source 210 white Tower £35.00
Asus 24x DVD±RW DRW-24B5ST SATA ReWriter - Black (Retail) £20.99
OCZ Technology 60GB SATA 2.5" Solid State Drive SSD £40.00
Operating System windows 8 £60.00
It would cost around £590, my budget is £600 max.
What do you guys think? I am not that worried about building it, i'm more worried about getting the right parts.
I have heard good things about the i3 3220 and the gpu.
As long as it can play all the current games on max/high settings it would be ok. The processor also does a lot for the price.
Tbh the cheaper the system the better, originally I was planning on spending £500 but that was before I knew that getting a good psu and a good Tower was important. Also I did not have in mind a SSD.
Any input would be greatly appreciated x