Hexus monthly buyers guide

[Jayfunk]

This is an excellent thread.

I am looking to put together a £300 build which can play games as well as an x-box, so graphics card and I want the Athlon II x3 so I need to shave some pounds elsewhere.

Is it just a mistake to go for a ~£40 board
and try and squeeze the case and PSU in for under £50 as some combo's on this thread allow?

theoretical build
x3 +stock cooling - 65
M-Board - 40
4gB RAM - 40
case and psu - 50
internal drive - 30
DVDRW - 15

= 240 leaving ~60 for a graphics card.

Am I kidding myself?

[Phage]

Do you have a monitor, keyboard and OS ?
2nd hand that should just about be doable. It's the rest of the system that will cost.

[shakerist]

CAT came up with this build for me earlier :



he recommended for an extra £20 a 5830 and Be quiet 530w psu:

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/190751
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/265356

and I would recommend this case for an extra £15
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/239238

[marshalex]

little bit over the price range but i'm configuring this for my mate

with this case and psu bundle from ebuyer http://www.ebuyer.com/product/220861

already got windows 7, monitor keyboard and mouse.

thoughts?

[OilSheikh]

Remember Samsung F3 1TB is £34 in SCAN's Today Only.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

After seeing this effort its time Hexus came up with something better:

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/buy...de-july-2011/2