Spec me a £500 System

Gundog48

Gundog48

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My mate wants me to build him a rig for general use and light gaming. He is looking for something that will be fast and also play light games like Minecraft and Portal. He wants to spend about £500 but no more than £520. I'm providing him with a PSU for £50 and my old faithful 9800GTX for £49 which is pretty good considering it still beasts the latest COD titles, Mafia II, Dirt 3 and the like. Its old tech but you'd have to pay double that to get the equivalent up to date version.

Anyway, this is roughly what I have:

i5 2400 CPU
Asus P8P67
4Gb Kingston HyperX Blu
64Gb Crucial M4 SSD
1Tb HDD
Lancool K56
Bog standard DVD drive
My 9800GTX + PSU

Thoughts? Perhaps you would even suggest a different platform altogether- any suggestions or do you think that is pretty good?
 
If you did away with the SSD as its a luxurary item, then you can easily get a i5 2500K and 8Gb RAM
 
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I did think that, but I reckoned that an SSD would suit his uses better rather than processing power as it would give it faster boot times and a general snappiness. I think that CPU and 4Gb will suit him fine for day-to-day stuff and doing the odd bit of light gaming.
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail with FREE TrackMania 2 Canyon PC Game £173.99
1 x Asus P8Z68-V Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £130.00
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £77.99
1 x Zalman Z9 Plus Tower Case with Fan Controller - Black £44.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £29.99
1 x Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £25.99
1 x Samsung SH-S222AB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
Total : £515.03 (includes shipping : £11.75).



£500 and bits without shipping. The motherboard is a bit pricey, could go with a GD53, and get a different case, or 1TB drive.

SSD is OK as long as he is aware to check usage regularly. Mine tends to fill with crap and need a clean up once in a while.
 
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