Under £400 Gaming PC?

[OCAspire]

great to know!. I will be buying in a month or so, ill have time to decide which one to go with. If the i5 3450 is beter stock than the ivybridge stock then ill get that instead since i wont be overclocking?

 

[honosuseri]

In its favor it does include a number of fans fitted as standard, a temperature display with temperature probe and a simple fan controller.

I have one myself. It has four 120mm fans to be precise and people forget to mention the P4/8 extension cable included to help you route it behind the mobo. These alone must be worth £25...seeing as the case itself is £45 that's not bad at all, lots to like for the price

great to know!. I will be buying in a month or so, ill have time to decide which one to go with. If the i5 3450 is beter stock than the ivybridge stock then ill get that instead since i wont be overclocking?

With this weeks offers I would aim for something like this.....

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM £167.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) £69.98
1 x OCZ ZS Series 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £49.99
1 x Zalman Z9 Plus Tower Case with Fan Controller - Black £44.99
1 x Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £43.19
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler (Socket LGA2011/1366/1155/1156/775/ AMD AM3/AM3+/AM2/AM2+/FM1) £26.39
Total : £497.52 (includes shipping : £12.50).



You'll need to check back with us nearer the time you order as the offers change weekly. You'll notice I've used the OEM CPU which is notably cheaper, this helped me pay for the aftermarket heatsink.

The Z77 mobo not only allows the overclocking of K series CPUs (really does make sense to use one on it) but it has lucidMVP which uses the IGP to boost the GPU. SO if you are on a tight budget you could use the 6850 (£80ish), overclock it and it's still getting a boost from lucidMVP You could look to upgrade to a 2GB GPU (7850 etc) once they are a more reasonable price