Spec me build £400-£550 please

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Hey all,

I'm wanting to put a new pc together for my son who is 14 for christmas. Apart from the usual word processing for his homework he's into gaming - WoW, CS:GO etc.

I'm completely out of the loop as to what is worth buying and would very much appreciate it if you could spoon feed me a shopping list of components from ocuk that are good for price vs performance :)

Will want a 120gb SSD, fairly decent graphics card and reasonably large case as I have fat fingers and struggle with small cases :D

Thanks!
 
Certainly looks good Shivy, as I said though I'm out of the loop with hardware though so I'll have to take your word for it :)

I'll remove the 1tb drive I can use old drive from his current computer for storage. He can also use his old peripherals.

Thanks
 
Both specs looks decent, you guys have got me wondering now though. There seems to be a lot of debate about which of those CPU's are better. AMD cheaper but use more power and generate more heat although slightly better for general use. Intel i5 said to be slightly better for gaming but less overclocking potential... hard choice. Don't know which build to go with :confused:
 
I just ordered that card you mentioned Stulid but when applying the code it says 'Get GX-224-XF for £166.66+VAT and Free shipping on your whole order'.. so I ordered it but the price hasn't changed. I don't see any other way to 'activate' the code... does this mean that they are no longer running the offer despite the code seemingly working?
 
Yeah, my order says:

XFX Radeon R9 290 DD 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (R9-290A-EDFD) £179.99 1 £179.99

AMD Radeon GOLD Reward Ticket (Emailed) £0.00 1 £0.00

AMD PROMO: Sid Meier's Civilization Beyond Earth PC Game £0.00 1 £0.00

FREE SHIPPING (DPD Next Day): £0.00
VAT: £36.00
Order Total: £215.99



I tried a few times even with different browser and applied the code each time getting the same 'Get GX-224-XF for £166.66+VAT and Free shipping on your whole order' but it never updated the price
 
Could you do me a favour and try apply it yourself now and see if it works for you? You just enter the code and get that message and that's it right? :confused:
 
Strange, just tried it again and it's working now... tempted to reorder it and ask them to cancel the other one. Could over complicate things though, are ocuk known for sorting these things out? If they are likely to change my current order to the correct price then I'll leave it as it is.
 
Thanks Shivy but it seems it's really temperamental, even though it showed as the discount applying this time it reverted back to original price when actually confirming payment. Very odd.

I'll leave my current order in place and hopefully they'll knock off the discount manually tomorrow :)

I'm not going to order any of the other components you guys kindly recommended just yet, I'll wait until nearer christmas - might be a bit cheaper then
 
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