PC BUILD £600

[Mike72]

Hi all,

Ive never built a pc before and do not know what to look for or where to start. Ive found this rig below for £585.00 is this a good pc and will it run most games.

My main use for my PC is a games machine, Or if you think its not that good. Do you know of any reliable PC manufactureres..

cheers

Case: Coolermaster Elite 330 Mid Tower 420W Black
CPU: (Sckt775)Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E8400 CPU @ 3.0GHz 1333FSB 6MB L2 ***Overclockable XXX*** Cache 64-bit
Motherboard: (QX9650 support) Asus P5K SE/EPU Intel P35 Chipset LGA775 FSB1600 DDR2/800 Mainboard w/GbLAN, USB2.0, &7.1Audio
Memory: (Req.DDR2 MainBoard)2GB (2x1GB) PC6400 DDR2/800 Dual Channel Memory (G.SKILL Value Select or Major Brand)
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 9600GT 512MB 16X PCI Express Video Card (Major Brand Power by NVIDIA)
Video Card 2: NONE
Video Card 3: NONE
Monitor & LCD: 19" Wide TFT Active Matrix LCD Display Monitor
Hard Drive: Single Hard Drive (160GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 8MB Cache 7200RPM HDD)
Data Hard Drive: NONE
Optical Drive: SONY DUAL FORMAT 20X DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW DRIVE DUAL LAYER (BLACK COLOR)
Optical Drive 2: NONE
Sound: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 5.1 AUDIO

 

[Ben M]

the P35 has been replaced by the P45 range, they're not much more costly, so I'd get a p45 instead, abit's p45 range is very good.

The 9600GT is a bit eww to be honest, the ati HD4850 is much better bang for buck.

Mentioning competitors to OcUK is against the forum's rules. Have a look at some of the prebuilt systems that OcUK sell, although it's better to build your own, as lots of people are about to say

Claimed.

 

[Mike72]

Thats the problem i have im limited to £600 budget and OCUK doenst have any gaming PCs for that amount ;-(.

Im not able to build my own PC as i wouldnt know where to start so looking aroudn its a mindfield what to get, what woudl work and what wouldnt work for games.

ie is Quad Core better than Core 2 duo?