£600 rig for friend

[WeatherMan]

Hi guys,

One of my mates wants to get back into PC gaming, and I've not really got too much time on my hands right now because I'm busy painting my room.

The Budget is £600 and he needs everything apart from a Keyboard & Mouse.

So I'm looking for the following:

Case
Power Supply
Hard Drive
Motherboard
Processor
Graphics Card
RAM
Optical Drive
CPU Cooler


I want to provide him with both an AMD and Intel system, he will also be overclocking

Many Thanks

 

[spirit]

Would you like me to take a look on Novatech and get a build for him?

 

[WeatherMan]

Yeah please!

 

[spirit]

A decent system with a monitor and OS included for £600 is proving to be a bit of a challenge, can he spend any more?

 

[WeatherMan]

That's the absolute maximum I'm afraid

 

[WeatherMan]

Just been speaking to him, and told him the problem.


You can take away the operating system and monitor from the budget!

Also, he will be overclocking

 

[spirit]

OK I'll get a build for you in the morning. Look at the likes of an i3, a GA-Z77X-D3H, 8GB 1600MHz RAM, 128GB SSD, 7850, CX 600 and Carbide 300R. That should get you to £600 or thereabouts.

 

[WeatherMan]

Okay thanks

Budget is now £700.

 

[Shane]

Well if spirit,s going to do the Intel build for ya,Il do the AMD.

AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-338-AM

Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 AMD 990FX (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-350-GI

Samsung Green (MV-3V4G3D/US) 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz 30nm Dual Channel Kit
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-017-SA

HIS HD 7950 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H795F3G2M) with FREE FARCRY3, Hitman Absolution, Sleeping Dogs & 20% off MOH Warfighter PC Games
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-049-HS

Corsair Hydro H60 V2 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-006-CS

SanDisk Extreme SSD 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-000-SD

Corsair Builder Series CX 600W V2
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-048-CS

Cooler Master K380 Midi Tower Black Windowed Case
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-307-CM

Total = £719.47,That price includes DPD Next Day delivery,I think you can choose a cheaper/slower deliver option during checkout.

If your mate really wants to lower the price,he could settle with a 7850 its still a bloody good card,But i think the 7950 is a really good deal for the power and free games you get.

 

[spirit]

Intel build for £728

Carbide 300R http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/cases/cc-9011014-ww.html
LG DVD-RW http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/opticaldrives/satadvdwriters/gh24ns95.auaa10b.html
CX 600 http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/powersupplies/cp-9020048-uk.html

i5 3570K http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/...ncorei3,i5andi71155socket/bx80637i53570k.html
Z77X-D3H http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/motherboards/intel1155z77chipset/ga-z77x-d3h.html
8GB Vengeance 1600MHz http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/memory-pc/ddr3-pc3-12800/1600mhz/cmz8gx3m2a1600c9.html

Seagate 2TB 7200 RPM http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/harddrives-internal/sata2tbto2.5tb/st2000dm001.html

XFX HD 7870 http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/...aphicscards/amdhd7870series/fx-787a-cdbc.html

Could have an XFX HD 7950 if he is prepared to spend £755 for the whole thing http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/...aphicscards/amdhd7950series/fx-795a-tdjc.html

An XFX HD 7850 would bring it to £678 http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/...aphicscards/amdhd7850series/fx-785a-cnjc.html

All prices include VAT.

 

[Okedokey]

intel build will bend the amd build over the bench, remove her panties and give amd a right old rogering.

 

[Shane]

intel build will bend the amd build over the bench, remove her panties and give amd a right old rogering.

It would,But my build has an SSD,7950 etc for only £20 over budget..I would not be recommending a standard 7200Rpm drive these days for other than storage.

 

[spirit]

You could get an SSD and a smaller 500GB or 1TB HDD with my Intel build and it won't be too much over budget.

 

[Okedokey]

You should preference the platform over an ssd. Changing the hidden is easy compared to upgrading the platform.