best gaming PC for 500 british pound

Hey everyone

can you recommend all of the best pieces apart from the case (i know which one i want)

i have £500 budget in mind and would like the a pc that can have medium settings and a few maxed out games etc

can you recommend all the components

Hey everyone

can you recommend all of the best pieces apart from the case (i know which one i want)

i have £500 budget in mind and would like the a pc that can have medium settings and a few maxed out games etc

can you recommend all the components

mattamomo

EDIT: If you are willing to wait approximately until June, then the new AM3+ Bulldozer CPUs will come. It will cause the price of AM3 CPUs to drop, therefore you will get better value for money

[QUOTE="mattamomo"]

Hey everyone

can you recommend all of the best pieces apart from the case (i know which one i want)

i have £500 budget in mind and would like the a pc that can have medium settings and a few maxed out games etc

can you recommend all the components

wolverine_97

i have speakers and monitor

dont know what the others are

[QUOTE="wolverine_97"][QUOTE="mattamomo"]

Hey everyone

can you recommend all of the best pieces apart from the case (i know which one i want)

i have £500 budget in mind and would like the a pc that can have medium settings and a few maxed out games etc

can you recommend all the components

mattamomo

i have speakers and monitor

dont know what the others are

ok i need none of them

ok i need none of them

mattamomo

[QUOTE="mattamomo"]

ok i need none of them

wolverine_97

well i do

but not within that budget

that is just for the actual pc

[QUOTE="wolverine_97"][QUOTE="mattamomo"]

ok i need none of them

mattamomo

well i do

but not within that budget

that is just for the actual pc

[QUOTE="mattamomo"]

[QUOTE="wolverine_97"] so you have a copy of windows?wolverine_97

well i do

but not within that budget

that is just for the actual pc

that is correct

ohhh it would be nice to have blu ray aswell

Atm blurays are quite expensive and are not worth the price.

Have a look at this deal from scan(the top one), youd need a gpu. Something like thiswould be good. This comes to 510.67. And is a great buy in my eyes

Atm blurays are quite expensive and are not worth the price.

Have a look at this deal from scan(the top one), youd need a gpu. Something like thiswould be good. This comes to 510.67. And is a great buy in my eyes

Tim_Millington

i said british pound

thats only £340

you could get yourself an i5 2500k for £500 aslong as you dont include the OS in the price.

[QUOTE="Tim_Millington"]

Atm blurays are quite expensive and are not worth the price.

Have a look at this deal from scan(the top one), youd need a gpu. Something like thiswould be good. This comes to 510.67. And is a great buy in my eyes

mattamomo

i said british pound

thats only £340

[QUOTE="mattamomo"]

[QUOTE="Tim_Millington"]

Atm blurays are quite expensive and are not worth the price.

Have a look at this deal from scan(the top one), youd need a gpu. Something like thiswould be good. This comes to 510.67. And is a great buy in my eyes

wolverine_97

i said british pound

thats only £340

ahh i missed the second link

[QUOTE="wolverine_97"][QUOTE="mattamomo"]

i said british pound

thats only £340

mattamomo

ahh i missed the second link

[QUOTE="mattamomo"]

[QUOTE="wolverine_97"] It is £400 inc VAT, but it doesn't come with the GPU, that is in the second link.wolverine_97

ahh i missed the second link

no it does not

I spent exactly £500.16 on the rig in my profile, 4Gb 1600Mhz RAM, i5 2.8Ghz processor, ATI 5770 and Antec 300 case. Not too bad but i bought this PC in December so you could probably save a few quid or get a slightly better GPU for the money. Scan.co.uk are generally the cheapest around for parts and great service. One thing was i used my old monitor, KB/M, and even my DVD-RW and HDD.

[QUOTE="wolverine_97"][QUOTE="mattamomo"]

ahh i missed the second link

mattamomo

no it does not

OK BEFORE YOU BUY ANYTHING, MAKE SURE YOU CHECK WITH A MORE EXPERIENCED MEMBER OF THIS FROUM THAT THESE PARTS ARE BEST VALUE FOR MONEY AND THAT THEY ARE GOOD QUALITY AND COMPATIBLE

Motherboard - Will support the new AM3+ chipset when it comes out.Gigabyte GA-870A-USB3

CPU - Phenom II X4 955

GPU - 2GB HD 6950, will unlock to a 6970, much better than a HD 5770

RAM - 4GB

HDD - 1TB Spinpoint F3

DVD Drive - Blu ray is too expensive without sacrificing on other parts (ie, GPU)

PSU - you may need a more powerful/better PSU, im not completely sure. MAKE SURE YOU CONFIRM THIS WITH ANOTHER(MORE EXPERIENCED) MEMBER ON THIS BOARD

Total:£530, If you don't want to spend the extra £30, then you can get this GPU.

Post your case, it will help to see if everything is compatible.

EDIT: you may want to wait until the new AM3+ CPUs come out around June, It will cause the price of AM3 CPUs to fall and you will get better value for money.

^^^

i dont mind spending the extra £40 for a bluray player

^^^

i dont mind spending the extra £40 for a bluray player

mattamomo

you could get yourself an i5 2500k for £500 aslong as you dont include the OS in the price.

adam0926

whats more important then

the cpu or gpu

whats more important then

the cpu or gpu

mattamomo

Advent Gaming PC from Currys PC World here in the UK costs £429.97

It is a core i5 6 GB RAM, HD 5750. It's not on the website. But I saw it last week when I went to Curry's PC World. That might be good Though the graphics card itself is only £50.

Advent Gaming PC from Currys PC World here in the UK costs £429.97

It is a core i5 6 GB RAM, HD 5750. It's not on the website. But I saw it last week when I went to Curry's PC World. That might be good Though the graphics card itself is only £50.

BLaZiNg_SPEED

[QUOTE="BLaZiNg_SPEED"]

Advent Gaming PC from Currys PC World here in the UK costs £429.97

It is a core i5 6 GB RAM, HD 5750. It's not on the website. But I saw it last week when I went to Curry's PC World. That might be good Though the graphics card itself is only £50.

wolverine_97

Actually I muddled it up. It was a HD 5570. Just too many numbers, sometimes hard to remember.:lol:

But yeah the card I saw in that Advent Gaming PC was a HD 5570 not 5750. That's about £50.