spec sub £500 gaming base

[edger100]

I fancy building a gaming pc for under £500. I have keyboard and monitor etc, so I would only need the base unit and os. Has anybody got any ideas?

Many thanks Tony

 

[semi-pro waster]

Welcome to the forums, this is just about on the budget, if you needed to you could either wait for the OcUK 3850pro to come into stock or buy a smaller hard drive. Using Windows XP instead is another option but you couldn't then use over 4gb of Ram.

Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £53.99
(£63.44) £53.99
(£63.44)
Intel Core 2 Duo E2180 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.00GHz (800FSB) - Retail £47.99
(£56.39) £47.99
(£56.39)
Antec NSK 6580 Super Midi Tower Case - 430W Earth Watts PSU £57.99
(£68.14) £57.99
(£68.14)
OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2 (OCZ2P800R22GK) £29.99
(£35.24) £29.99
(£35.24)
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit Edition DVD - OEM - 1Pk (66I-00788) £59.99
(£70.49) £59.99
(£70.49)
Samsung SH-S202JBEBN 20x DVD±RW IDE Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
(£16.44) £13.99
(£16.44)
HIS ATI Radeon HD 3850 Pro Turbo X 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail £119.99
(£140.99) £119.99
(£140.99)
Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (0A33423) £35.99
(£42.29) £35.99
(£42.29)
Sub Total : £419.92
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.95
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £75.40
Total : £506.27

 

[Jonny69]

Would that be any good for playing Wolfenstein Enemy Territory? I need the same sort of price/spec for my uncle.

 

[danman2k]

this is very similar but with the ocuk GFX card(which isnt in stock yet)
and a cooler for overclocking that 2180

 

[semi-pro waster]

Would that be any good for playing Wolfenstein Enemy Territory? I need the same sort of price/spec for my uncle.

I'm assuming here you are talking about the game released a few years back for free? In which case it is amply sufficient because that system ought to play almost any game released very well indeed.

 

[jackthezipper]

Wolfenstein Enemy Territory requirements:

600 MHz CPU, 128 MB RAM, 32 MB OpenGL graphics card, 56.6k Modem/LAN

So yes it will

If you mean quake wars enimy territory:
* Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 2800+ processor
* 512 MB RAM (768 MB RAM for Windows Vista)
* 128 MB NVIDIA Geforce 5700 or ATI Radeon 9700 with OpenGL 2.0 drivers
* 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
* 5 GB of free hard drive space, plus 700 MB for Windows swap file

So yes easily again

 

[Jonny69]

Cool, cheers