Rate this system please?

[arctine]

It's for my friend who wants to spend less than £500 on a gaming PC that will last a few years. Mainly Guild Wars 2 which is quite CPU intensive, hence the i5. This was my attempt but perhaps some of you lovely people can improve on it? Thanks.

 

[dunn2010]

£1 cheaper

better mboard, different case with usb3 and tooless locking. modular psu. 8 gb ram instead of 4

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3330 3.00GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £139.99
1 x Sapphire HD 7850 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ FARCRY3 & Sleeping Dogs PC Games £133.99
1 x MSI Z68MA-G43 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £49.99
1 x PC Power & Cooling Silencer Mk III Series 400W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply - White £49.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) £43.99
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x GeIL Black Dragon 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GD38GB1600C11DC) £23.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
Total : £503.03 (includes shipping : £11.75).



if he can stretch an extra £17 i would advise him to get the gigabyte 7850 as it has 2gb of dram and is an overall better card

with gigabyte card

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7850 OC Windforce 2X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ FARCRY3, Sleeping Dogs & Dirt Showdown PC Games £149.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3330 3.00GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £139.99
1 x PC Power & Cooling Silencer Mk III Series 400W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply - White £49.99
1 x MSI Z68MA-G43 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £49.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) £43.99
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x GeIL Black Dragon 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GD38GB1600C11DC) £23.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
Total : £519.02 (includes shipping : £11.75).