Gaming Build ~£700.

[Repressor]

Greetings,

A friend has asked advice on a gaming computer for around £700 and I said I'd check on here first.

This is what he came up with:



Rip it apart; input greatly appreciated.

[nibbler]

Needlessly expensive motherboard, if you want to save get an MSI c45 for £50, or if you want to spend that much get an MSI GD70, or smack bang in the middle is teh Gigabyte 790x ud4p.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Needlessly expensive motherboard, if you want to save get an MSI c45 for £50, or if you want to spend that much get an MSI GD70, or smack bang in the middle is teh Gigabyte 790x ud4p.

What he said!!

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

The HD5770 is also cheaper on Ebuyer.

This is what I would look at getting:

AMD Phenom II X4 955BE ~ £122

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/AMD-P...he-125W-Retail

Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P ~ £67

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

4GB 1600MHZ DDR3 ~ £82

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/p...L9D-4GBRL.html

Run this at 1333MHZ using lower latencies.

500W Silverstone Strider ST50F ~ £54

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/500W-...n-Dual-plus12V

Antec 300 case ~ £39

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

Samsung F3 500GB ~ £38

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/500Gb...-Cache-8ms-OEM

SATA DVD rewriter ~ £16

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Sony-...Wx6-SATA-Black

Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit OEM~ £78

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Windo...8Single%29-OEM

HD5850 1GB ~ £245

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/175714

The build is over budget but should be able to run most games fine:

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2009/...eo_card_review

Hopefully the price of the HD5850 should start to decrease as supposedly more cards should be available now.