Need a £400 PC

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Ok woop iv'e ordered my new gaming rig and it will be sick :D.. now I need to build a pc for about £400 for my friend that I can sell to him for like 500-550, thing is iI only want to use parts on the oc site as its trusted... does anyone have any suggestions as I have never even looked at low range stuff before.
 
couple of weeks old i think, going to update tomorrow in fact when new TWO deals start, if you can wait
you want win in £400? so more like £330 for pc? thats gonna be tough if he plans to game
 
For gaming?

Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Corsair XMS3 4GB (1x4GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Single-Channel Module £75.19
(£63.99) £75.19
(£63.99)
OcUK Value GeForce 9800 GTX 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - (Grade A OEM - 3 Months W,arranty) £74.99
(£63.82) £74.99
(£63.82)
AMD Phenom II X2 Dual Core 555 3.20GHz Black Edition (Socket AM3) - Retail £70.49
(£59.99) £70.49
(£59.99)
ASRock M3A770DE AMD 770 (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard £51.99
(£44.25) £51.99
(£44.25)
Akasa Freedom Xone Case - Black £38.99
(£33.18) £38.99
(£33.18)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502HJ) £32.99
(£28.08) £32.99
(£28.08)
Corsair CX 400W ATX Power Supply (CMPSU-400CXUK) £29.99
(£25.52) £29.99
(£25.52)
Pioneer DVR-S18L 22x DVD±RW SATA Labelflash ReWriter - Black (Retail) £17.99
(£15.31) £17.99
(£15.31)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler (Socket 939 / AM2 / AM3 / 775 / 1156 / 1366) £16.99
(£14.46) £16.99
(£14.46)
Sub Total : £348.60
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 17.50% VAT : £63.06
Total : £423.41

As for Windows... could you get it at the student price? Alternatively you could get a single user copy of Windows Server 2008 for around £20 which i believe is possible to turn into something akin to Vista. Don't forget to dual boot Linux!
 
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95thrifles said:
couple of weeks old i think, going to update tomorrow in fact when new TWO deals start, if you can wait
you want win in £400? so more like £330 for pc? thats gonna be tough if he plans to game
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hmm his not a serious gamer, but he plays games like.. rts's like age of empires etc and also he likes the sim city games, well lets say £350 for the pc + windows on top, i would prefer it to be either vista or win7 tho, many thnks.
 
Hmm, i guess something like this...

Product Name Qty Price Line Total
OCZ Gold 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Low-Voltage Dual Channel (OCZ3G1333LV4GK) £66.96
(£56.99) £66.96
(£56.99)
ASRock M3A770DE AMD 770 (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard £51.99
(£44.25) £51.99
(£44.25)
OcUK GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - OEM (Grade A Refurb - 3 Months Warranty) £46.99
(£39.99) £46.99
(£39.99)
AMD Athlon II X2 Dual Core 245 2.90GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £43.46
(£36.99) £43.46
(£36.99)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502HJ) £32.99
(£28.08) £32.99
(£28.08)
Corsair CX 400W ATX Power Supply (CMPSU-400CXUK) £29.99
(£25.52) £29.99
(£25.52)
Xigmatek Asgard Midi Tower Case - Black £26.99
(£22.97) £26.99
(£22.97)
Pioneer DVR-S18L 22x DVD±RW SATA Labelflash ReWriter - Black (Retail) £17.99
(£15.31) £17.99
(£15.31)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler (Socket 939 / AM2 / AM3 / 775 / 1156 / 1366) £16.99
(£14.46) £16.99
(£14.46)
Sub Total : £284.56
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 17.50% VAT : £51.85
Total : £348.16
 
Your charging your mate 150 quid to build him a computer? Why dont you just send him the way of the pre build bundles.. at least he gets a proper warranty with it and its professionally made.
 
tr1cky said:
Your charging your mate 150 quid to build him a computer? Why dont you just send him the way of the pre build bundles.. at least he gets a proper warranty with it and its professionally made.
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Agreed with this.
I hope you are also offering a lengthy warranty and technical support for free, given the rip off build charge?

For your "mate" to get the best deal, point him in the direction of the prebuilds.
 
Don't really agree with OP, very unfair charge your "mate" £150 for a low end build especially with no warranty etc.

For £566 you could one of these

Better than anything you could conjour up! Plus warranty etc.
 
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