Spec me a gaming rig for £600 without ram/monitor/peripherals

PESolution · 28 Mar 2008 at 13:46

Hi there

Im looking to build a PC for a friend, he has a budget of 600£. He already has a monitor and peripherals, all he needs is the base unit without RAM. He currently has 2gb of Gskill HZ.

He wants his PC for gaming and watching movies through his TV.

Thanks in advance guys, im sure you'll do me proud

MiNxYyY · 28 Mar 2008 at 14:28

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This Is a Decent Gaming Rig,Will Run Most Games With Ease,Also V Good Overclocking Ability With The Mobo And Processor

Hope This Helps

Johnboyjoe · 28 Mar 2008 at 14:30

aye looks ok but wouldn't get the Q6600 maself

miceormen · 28 Mar 2008 at 14:37

Why not the q6600? From what i've seen they're rather good, even performed well in the packard bell machines at i33 and thats a bloody miracle in its own right.

Johnboyjoe · 28 Mar 2008 at 14:57

well as far as gaming goes not much point in having 4 cores at the moment IMO they also don't clock as well as some other processors.

i know people with them, my system is better than theirs as far as gaming/graphic benching goes and they are running GTX cards lol

my current setup:

E6750
MSI Neo2 FR
Crucial Ballistix DDR2 PC6400
BFG 8800GT OC

if i was to bulid something for someone i'd go for something like the above again, maybe even a newer 45nm cpu would be the only change i'd make

llwayneio · 28 Mar 2008 at 15:22

hope this helps

PESolution · 28 Mar 2008 at 16:43

thanks for the help guys, so far i think that the post from kieren looks good. how do the 9600's compare to the 8800's?

llwayneio · 28 Mar 2008 at 18:11

they are very close to the 8800gt and scale about 80% in sli so that system would be way more powerful than the single 8800gt option. plus the 45nm dual core overclocks pretty well and will give you much better gaming performance than the quad

PESolution · 28 Mar 2008 at 18:38

hmm, one the main problems my friend has is a very warm room, and therefore he doesnt really want to overclock. so i think perhaps the 8800 might be cooler aswell than running 2x9600's?