New build for £450

Nuclear Fusion

Nuclear Fusion

Nuclear Fusion

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Just looking for a bit of help putting together a new build for a friend on a budget of around £450. Only the actual PC is needed (he already has the monitor, keyboard etc.). He mainly uses it for web browsing and some gaming (mainly Minecraft). He wanted a 1TB hard drive, and he will be using the RAM from my computer (I stupidly bought red RAM which clashes with the blue and black colour scheme of my motherboard) so no RAM needs to be included in the price. He has an old case that may be suitable, but I have yet to see it (I think it is unlikely to be good enough), so include a case anyway. I was thinking along the lines of an i3 2120, a cheap H61 mobo, a 6670, an Antec 300, an XFX 450W Pro PSU, a cheap DVD drive, a Seagate 1Tb HDD and W7 Home Premium 64 bit OEM. If anyone has any better ideas, then spec me a build below. Thanks :)
 
 
 
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Doomedspeed said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i3-2120 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £95.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £83.99
1 x **B Grade** OcUK Value GeForce GTX 460 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £79.99
1 x **B Grade** Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM £55
1 x Gigabyte H61MA-D3V Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £47.99
1 x XFX Pro 450W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £41.99
1 x BitFenix Merc Alpha Gaming Case - Black £29.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £12.98
Total : £462.01 (includes shipping : £11.75).



The GTX 460 is a great card, and that's about 2nd price, so all is good.
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I would have suggested the same pretty much.

The 460 is a good card (i have one) HOWEVER I suggest you get the 6850.

The 460 above is B grade so has a shorter warranty and may be missing accessories (if it has mini HDMI you'll need the adapter to use HDMI). The card is also running at stock speed (675mhz), the EVGA 460 sold here is pre-overclocked to 867mhz. You'll notice the EVGA 460 has HDMI 1.4a not 1.3 which is what the B grade 460 has.
 
honosuseri said:
I would have suggested the same pretty much.

The 460 is a good card (i have one) HOWEVER I suggest you get the 6850.

The 460 above is B grade so has a shorter warranty and may be missing accessories (if it has mini HDMI you'll need the adapter to use HDMI). The card is also running at stock speed (675mhz), the EVGA 460 sold here is pre-overclocked to 867mhz. You'll notice the EVGA 460 has HDMI 1.4a not 1.3 which is what the B grade 460 has.
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I was actually thinking of selling him my 6850 (It is a temporary card until the GTX 660 is released) so if the 660 is released soon, I might sell mine to him for say £70 (it's only a few months old).
 
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