New rig please help

IIFastraXII · 12 Jul 2013 at 12:51

Hello I'm posting in behalf of a friend who stays in Sweden.

What he is looking for is new rig just the case and components inside no
Monitor etc, he is looking to go intel and the computer will be used mostly for gaming. Also when recommending components will the company post to Sweden? His budget is 400-500 Great British pounds. Which converts to 5000 Swedish Krona approximately.

Help would be very much appreciated he has posted on the Swedish version of pc gamer to no receive absolutely no help at all I know you guys won't let me down as you guys done more than enough to help me When I was upgrading.

Hope everyone is well.

Thanks again Brian

Freddie1980 · 12 Jul 2013 at 13:18

An Intel rig with a half decent video card (Radeon HD7850) 500 isn't really doable your going to need to spend at least 600. The cheapest Intel Haswell quad core is £150, motherboard is another 90 and 50 for 8gb of ram. Then you have a case, PSU and storage on top which is anther £170-£180 (assuming your friend wants fairly decent gear and not cheap rubbish) you budget is nearly all gone before you get the GPU.

I would look at building an AMD APU system for that sort of change, for gaming he really isn't going to notice the difference in performance between an Intel and AMD rig as games are typically bound by the performance of the video card.

Fire_fly · 12 Jul 2013 at 13:38

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI HD 7850 OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Cards £143.99
1 x Intel Core i3-3220 3.30GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £89.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £89.99
1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BLS2CP4G3D1609DS1S00CEU) £43.99
1 x XFX Pro 450W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £39.95
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x **B Grade** Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500418AS) £27
1 x OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £498.98 (includes shipping : £11.75).

Can upgrade the CPU to socket 1155 Quad core later for an upgrade.

If he is willing to spend about £20 more then this 7850 comes with 8 free games.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-064-HS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=411

Edit: If he is willing to give up some of the features of the motherboard.

YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS HD 7850 IceQ 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H785Q2G2M) £161.99
1 x Intel Core i3-2130 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £95.99
1 x Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £45.95
1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BLS2CP4G3D1609DS1S00CEU) £43.99
1 x XFX Pro 450W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £39.95
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x **B Grade** Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500418AS) £27
1 x OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £478.94 (includes shipping : £11.75).

DaleTheWhale · 12 Jul 2013 at 13:40

YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS HD 7850 IceQ X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H785QN2G2M) £149.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £124.99
1 x MSI 990XA-GD55 AMD 990X Chipset (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BLS2CP4G3D1609DS1S00CEU) £43.99
1 x XFX Pro 450W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £39.95
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x **B Grade** Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM £30
Total : £516.00 (includes shipping : £11.75).

Intel just isn't going to be possible. EDIT: It is but... I'd rather the quad AMD.

EDIT2: Install windows using an USB.