New build - around £500

[{S.G}Monkey]

Hey people, just pricing up a new PC for my little brother, looking to spend around £500

Here's what ive priced up

LN20682
Item in stock. Saitek PM42, Cyborg Gaming Laser Mouse, 3200dpi, USB 1.1/2.0, 5 Buttons, Black + 4 Way Hat Switch
£30.12

LN23291
Coolermaster Centurion 590 Black - up to eight 120 mm fan, Removable HDD rack, 9 x5.2"/ 43.5" Bays
£51.62

LN27468
500W Silverstone Strider ST50F-230 v 1.0, PSU Silent, Modular, V 1.0, 80+ Eff'
£50.01

LN27738
4GB (2x2GB) Corsair TwinX XMS3, DDR3 PC3-10666 (1333) 240 Pin, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 9-9-9-24
£79.47

LN28008
AMD Athlon II X2 245, Regor Core, S AM3, 2.90GHz, 2MB Cache, HT 3600MHz, 65W, Retail
£46.90

LN28229
250GB Hitachi HDT721025SLA380 Deskstar 7K1000.B, SATA 3Gb/s, 7200rpm, 8MB Cache
£29.79

LN28391
Gigabyte GA-MA785GT-UD3H, AMD 785G, AM3, DDR3 1066/1333/1800, SATA 3Gb/s RAID, ATX, VGA
£76.59

LN28822
896MB Asus GTX 260 Glaciator+ 55nm, 1998MHz GDDR3, GPU 576MHz, Shader 1242MHz, 216 Cores + Batman
£123.84

LN28905
Sony AD-5240S-0B 24x DVDR 12xDVDDL DVDRW x8/-RWx6 SATA Black
£15.74

Any idea's and recommendation are welcome, thanks in advance

Anyone?

[{S.G}Monkey]

Any ideas anyone?

[Champman99]

Hey I havnt included a mouse, (although I wouldnt recommend that saitek one, i had one it broke very quickly) but I think this is a solid build for £500. Squeezed in a DX11 Graphics card, Quad Core CPU and 4GB Ram - plus a higher quality and higher capacity hard drive.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

This is what I would go for:

500GB Samsung F3 ~ £34

http://www.scan.co.uk/TodayOnly/Index.aspx

Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P ~ £71

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/GIGAB...770T-UD3P-MOBO

This is a very well regarded motherboard.

OR

MSI 770-C45 ~ £49

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/MSI-7...dio-GB-LAN-ATX

This motherboard is considered quite decent for the money too!

AMD Phenom II X2 545 ~ £64

http://www.scan.co.uk/TodayOnly/Index.aspx

This has L3 cache which is better for gaming and also a 770 based motherboard with the SB710 southbridge (the two I mentioned are 770 based motherboards with this southbridge) you maybe able to unlock to a quad core!!

4GB (2x2GB) Corsair XMS3 Dominator DDR3 ~ £83

http://www.scan.co.uk/TodayOnly/Index.aspx

Coolermaster Centurion 590 Black ~ £49

http://www.scan.co.uk/TodayOnly/Index.aspx

Samsung SATA DVD rewriter ~ £16

http://www.scan.co.uk/TodayOnly/Index.aspx

500W Silverstone Strider ST50F-230 ~ £50

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/500W-...lar-cable-V-10

1GB Asus HD5770 ~ £120

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/1GB-Asus-HD5770-PCI-E

Saitek PM42 mouse

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Saite...Way-Hat-Switch

The total comes to around £517.