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A friend of mine needs a build for his brother. He already has a monitor m/kb and a HD5750. What can somebody come up with? I know its a low budget. I'd say between £300 and £400.
Spec me a build. £300ish.
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£286 inc VAT and P&P
Seem ok?
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Made some alterations. Needed to shave the price down a bit and added a HDD which I missed out on. OS not required. Take off £20 for the coolermaster offer.
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YOUR BASKET
1 x Xenon Intel Core i5 2500K 3.30GHz Bundle - Quad Core £260.00
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/4GX) £26.99
1 x Toshiba MK5076GSX 500GB 5400RPM SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM £69.98
1 x Cooler Master GX 450W '80 Plus' Power Supply £27.98
1 x OcUK Flamingo FM-12A Midi Tower Case - Black/Blue £21.98
Total : £427.46 (includes shipping : £17.10).
1 x Xenon Intel Core i5 2500K 3.30GHz Bundle - Quad Core £260.00
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/4GX) £26.99
1 x Toshiba MK5076GSX 500GB 5400RPM SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM £69.98
1 x Cooler Master GX 450W '80 Plus' Power Supply £27.98
1 x OcUK Flamingo FM-12A Midi Tower Case - Black/Blue £21.98
Total : £427.46 (includes shipping : £17.10).
Simple answer?
NO
YOUR BASKET
1 x Xenon Intel Core i5 2500K 3.30GHz Bundle - Quad Core £260.00
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/4GX) £26.99
1 x Toshiba MK5076GSX 500GB 5400RPM SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM £69.98
1 x Cooler Master GX 450W '80 Plus' Power Supply £27.98
1 x OcUK Flamingo FM-12A Midi Tower Case - Black/Blue £21.98
Total : £427.46 (includes shipping : £17.10).
no to the psu
Why using a laptop hard disk?
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Its not for heavy gaming or anything. Just casual use with possibly some gaming. It seems that £300 is actually the max budget.
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Well for that money get one of OCuk's Llano value bundles.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-265-OK&groupid=43&catid=2038&subcat=
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i3-2100 3.10GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £91.19
1 x Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £81.38
1 x Samsung SpinPoint F4 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD322GJ) £62.99
1 x Cooler Master Silent Pro Modular 500W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £29.99
1 x Cooler Master Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black £39.98
1 x Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9AD3B1K2/4G) £17.99
Total : £323.52 (includes shipping : FREE).
that's with free shipping and using the voucher code cmdouble, so just a little over budget but would say that's better than amd build. in the future pop in the i2500k and he'll be able to over clock it(kingarthurs spec has the h61 motherboard which doesn't allow for overclocking).
if you or your friend have an old sata hard disk that can be reused then that'll save £63
1 x Intel Core i3-2100 3.10GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £91.19
1 x Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £81.38
1 x Samsung SpinPoint F4 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD322GJ) £62.99
1 x Cooler Master Silent Pro Modular 500W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £29.99
1 x Cooler Master Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black £39.98
1 x Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9AD3B1K2/4G) £17.99
Total : £323.52 (includes shipping : FREE).
that's with free shipping and using the voucher code cmdouble, so just a little over budget but would say that's better than amd build. in the future pop in the i2500k and he'll be able to over clock it(kingarthurs spec has the h61 motherboard which doesn't allow for overclocking).
if you or your friend have an old sata hard disk that can be reused then that'll save £63
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Surely the 960t with a 5750 is a better option than the APU?
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Plus another £80 for OS
£66?
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you could always use ubunyu, pick up a pc with win 7 from your purple computer store or if you know how, get if for free (legally of course)
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Ah, I see. Apologies
No prob
Do you or your mate have any bits you can donate to the build, spare sata hddd, optical drive or ram?
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I think we are giving up on the idea to be honest. Thanks for everybodys advice. Happy new year.