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[Nevram]

Hey, My brothers friend wants me to build him a computer that will play COD4. I was wondering if you guys would be able to help me out, hes got £370-400 for the base unit and that budget needs to include an OS. Thankyou!

 

[reiyushin]

Need a monitor, keyboard, mouse and speakers?

 

[Nevram]

Sorry i should have been more detailed.
Nothing else needed, just the base unit itself. Size is not an issue either. Thanks!

 

[reiyushin]

Palit GeForce GTS 250 Green 1024MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card £83.99
Patriot G Series 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Dual Channel (PGS34G1333ELK) £77.98
Asus M4A785TD-M Evo AMD 785G (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £69.99
AMD Athlon II X2 Dual Core 250 3.00GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £60.99
OCZ StealthXStream 500w Silent Power Supply £48.99
Samsung SpinPoint F1 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD251HJ) £28.99
Coolermaster Elite 334 Midi Case - Black £27.99
Samsung SH-S223C/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99

Total : £430.72

OS's can be had for £30-40 for Win7 with a valid student email account.
£450-470 is what I think it can be done for.

 

[Nevram]

Thanks, although i still need to knock the price down a bit cause he really is stuck on £400 max.

 

[koooowweeee]

if you only have that amount you could always get a asrock board there cheap but good. would knock it down a little but you cant really get any slower other things or it would not be worth getting with todays games

 

[bJN]

This is what I came up with. It's using practically the cheapest components available on OcUK yet will still do well. I would be suprised if this could be made cheaper on here, elsewhere though I'm pretty sure I could shave off about £20 tops.

If you have got a valid student email then remove windows 7 and purchase through Microsoft for £40, bringing the cost down even more

 

[Nevram]

Thanks, that is about what i had in mind. I have a student account so i will do it thats way. Cheers!