Spec me a core i5 build max £600 including OS, keyboard mouse and LCD monitor

OC introduced this one the other day http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-056-AC&groupid=17&catid=949&subcat=

I know i'm just throwing ideas at you here but for just over £100 I think this one is a bargain for a 22" with full high definition!

If you were to take that monitor + an OS, keyboard, mouse and an i5 that would leave you with around £230 to spend on the rest of your components which isn't a lot. Do you have any components from other computers that you might be able to reuse?
 
can you spec one for me please i aint good at choosing components :(

im sure £600 is more than enough :O for an i5 system? well maybe £700 will help?
 
well, with these preferences the budget is kinda low.
You want an OS,keyboard and mouse and monitor.
Even if you go with the cheapest keyboard,mouse and monitor in shop, they come out to 200pounds. The cheapest i5 is 150pounds, 4GB of Dual Channel DDR3 are 75, a 550W PSU is 76 and a "nice" GFX around 150.
If we add all of these we come to a total of 650 and we still haven't added a mobo.
 
over budget.

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Intel Core i5 750 2.66GHz (Lynnfield) (Socket LGA1156) - Retail £152.99
(£130.20) £152.99
(£130.20)
Samsung B2030N 20" Widescreen LCD Monitor £99.99
(£85.10) £99.99
(£85.10)
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £86.99
(£74.03) £86.99
(£74.03)
Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H Intel H55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 microATX Motherboard £69.99
(£59.57) £69.99
(£59.57)
XFX ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card £65.99
(£56.16) £65.99
(£56.16)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502HJ) £39.99
(£34.03) £39.99
(£34.03)
Corsair CX 400W ATX Power Supply (CMPSU-400CXUK) £39.99
(£34.03) £39.99
(£34.03)
Logitech Wireless Desktop MK300 (920-001633) £29.62
(£25.21) £29.62
(£25.21)
Xigmatek Asgard Midi Tower Case - Black £26.99
(£22.97) £26.99
(£22.97)
Samsung SH-S223C/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
(£11.91) £13.99
(£11.91)
Sub Total : £533.21
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £17.85
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £96.44
Total : £647.50

really difficult, to get down to that budget without compromising even more, the motherboard in this spec is a small M-ATX one.

Ideally you want an Nvidia card for CUDA processing, but even a midrange one is £79, the cheaper ones are just horrid.

and you still need win7.
 
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Intel Core i5 650 3.20GHz (Clarkdale) (Socket LGA1156) - Retail £149.99
(£127.65) £149.99
(£127.65)
Gigabyte GA-P55-USB3 Intel P55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard £104.99
(£89.35) £104.99
(£89.35)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium - Retail (Full Version) £99.99
(£85.10) £99.99
(£85.10)
Samsung B1930N 18.5" Widescreen LCD Monitor £86.99
(£74.03) £86.99
(£74.03)
Corsair VX 550W ATX Power Supply (CMPSU-550VXUK) £75.99
(£64.67) £75.99
(£64.67)
OCZ Gold 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 (1333MHz) Low-Voltage Dual Channel (OCZ3G1333LV4GK) £74.99
(£63.82) £74.99
(£63.82)
Western Digital Caviar Black 750GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (WD7501AALS) £67.99
(£57.86) £67.99
(£57.86)
XFX ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card £65.99
(£56.16) £65.99
(£56.16)
Asus TA-B11 Midi Tower Case - Black £20.99
(£17.86) £20.99
(£17.86)
Samsung SH-S223C/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
(£11.91) £13.99
(£11.91)
Logitech S96 PS/2 Optical Wheel Mouse Black - OEM (953688-1600) £5.99
(£5.10) £5.99
(£5.10)
Microsoft Black PS/2 Keyboard (Q95-00086) £5.99
(£5.10) £5.99
(£5.10)
Sub Total : £658.61
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £12.50
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £117.44
Total : £788.55

edited: forgot a few compoments out :p
 
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well its for my dad and he wants a quad core processor build, i myself am starting my build in a few weeks and he wants me to build a PC for him. I can chip in about £400, so the bugdet can be around £900-£100, the reason why my dad wants this pc is because its for my lil bro who is 15 years old and likes to make montages and stuff and record HD footage editing and abit of gaming. So a maximum is £1000, however i wont tell him that because he dosent like to spend too much on PC he is one of those guys that spends £500 a year on a new pc
 
If you went AMD, you could get bang on budget.

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Samsung B2030N 20" Widescreen LCD Monitor £99.99
(£85.10) £99.99
(£85.10)
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £86.99
(£74.03) £86.99
(£74.03)
Asus M4A87TD/USB3 AMD 870 (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard £86.99
(£74.03) £86.99
(£74.03)
AMD Athlon II X4 Quad Core 635 2.90GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £80.99
(£68.93) £80.99
(£68.93)
Point Of View GeForce 9800 GT Green Edition 512MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card £76.99
(£65.52) £76.99
(£65.52)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500418AS) £39.99
(£34.03) £39.99
(£34.03)
Corsair CX 400W ATX Power Supply (CMPSU-400CXUK) £39.99
(£34.03) £39.99
(£34.03)
Logitech Wireless Desktop MK300 (920-001633) £29.62
(£25.21) £29.62
(£25.21)
Xigmatek Asgard Midi Tower Case - Black £26.99
(£22.97) £26.99
(£22.97)
Samsung SH-S223C/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
(£11.91) £13.99
(£11.91)
Sub Total : £495.76
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £17.85
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £89.88
Total : £603.49

Quad core cpu.

motherboard with sata and usb3.0.

Nvidia gpu for silly fast video encoding using CUDA.
 
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