best pc for 300pounds?

my cousin is looking to buy a new pc with this months pay and hes got about £300 to spend (around $600 i think?), and he wants a moniter that could play ps3/360, and to be able to play games like cod4 and bioshock on max and maybe crysis on mid....

im really crap at this stuff and isit possible to get a pc that good with £300? (even if the parts are selected....)

Sorry bud, to play bioshock on max you need a video card that will cost 200+ (maybe even 400+).

No way will you get a monitor and a computer for 300 pounds, impossible unless you steal your parts... Then you wouldn't be buying it would you :P?

my cousin is looking to buy a new pc with this months pay and hes got about £300 to spend (around $600 i think?), and he wants a moniter that could play ps3/360, and to be able to play games like cod4 and bioshock on max and maybe crysis on mid....

im really crap at this stuff and isit possible to get a pc that good with £300? (even if the parts are selected....)

mustaf_nur89

Do you need aoperating system or does he already have one?

No it is not possible.

i dont mean to sound like im advertising here....but Custom PC (UK mag) has just covered that topic this month. might be worth a look. i just bought it today and the cover says "build yourself a dell beater for 275 pounds".

basically its a core 2 q6600, 9600gt, 2GB of ram and an asus p5k premium wifi ap.

You couldn't build such a system for £275 it isn't possible.

ok lol how about 500 pounds?

ok lol how about 500 pounds?

mustaf_nur89

Possibly. What montor is he looking at because that would set you back some? and the PC would suffer because the monitor would cut a large slice of the money.

I would spend at least £500 on the computer alone.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-085-OK&groupid=43&catid=1078&subcat=&name=Primo%20Swift

Will play Crysis on Medium and will play BioShock on high.

You would need to buy the monitor seperatly.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-085-OK&groupid=43&catid=1078&subcat=&name=Primo%20Swift

Will play Crysis on Medium and will play BioShock on high.

You would need to buy the monitor seperatly.

sadikovic

Don't be fooled with that price!

With operating system Vista premium 32bit vat and shipping comes to £379.82

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-085-OK&groupid=43&catid=1078&subcat=&name=Primo%20Swift

Will play Crysis on Medium and will play BioShock on high.

You would need to buy the monitor seperatly.

sadikovic

wow thats pretty good, could you add another 8600gt to that? or doesnt it work?

This is the best I could do:

Dabs Value BLACK WIZARD CASE 600W +25CM LED FAN SIDE PANEL £47

Asustek S775 Intel 945GC ATX DDR2 Audio Lan £38.30

Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2180 2.0GHz 1M Cache S775 800MH £45.34

Crucial CT2KIT12864AA667 2x1GB PC2-5300 NonECC CL5 £27.97

Samsung Spinpoint 160GB 7200RPM S300 3.5" £29.66

Asustek GeForce 8800GS 384MB PCIE DDR3 TOP Dual DVI 600/1.8GHz £69.58

LiteOn 20X DVD+/-RW/12XRAM IDE beige + Nero £17.64

Dabs Value Optical Scroll PS2 - Black £3.76

****** ****c Keyboard £4.11

Total: £293.92 inc. Del & VAT

With Monitor & OS:

Dabs Value 20" Wide L-2041W 8ms LCD TFT £109.26

Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition SP2b OEM £54.75

Total: £460.40 inc. Del & VAT

This would play most games near maxed out and Crysis medium at a decent res.

[QUOTE="sadikovic"]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-085-OK&groupid=43&catid=1078&subcat=&name=Primo%20Swift

Will play Crysis on Medium and will play BioShock on high.

You would need to buy the monitor seperatly.

teddyrob

Don't be fooled with that price!

With operating system Vista premium 32bit vat and shipping comes to £379.82

hmm i see...how comes operating systems are so expensive? jeez you could get other serious stuff for that price...

Comes to £500 with monitor.

This is the best I could do:

Dabs Value BLACK WIZARD CASE 600W +25CM LED FAN SIDE PANEL £47

Asustek S775 Intel 945GC ATX DDR2 Audio Lan £38.30

Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2180 2.0GHz 1M Cache S775 800MH £45.34

Crucial CT2KIT12864AA667 2x1GB PC2-5300 NonECC CL5 £27.97

Samsung Spinpoint 160GB 7200RPM S300 3.5" £29.66

Asustek GeForce 8800GS 384MB PCIE DDR3 TOP Dual DVI 600/1.8GHz £69.58

LiteOn 20X DVD+/-RW/12XRAM IDE beige + Nero £17.64

Dabs Value Optical Scroll PS2 - Black £3.76

****** ****c Keyboard £4.11

Total: £293.92 inc. Del & VAT

With Monitor & OS:

Dabs Value 20" Wide L-2041W 8ms LCD TFT £109.26

Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition SP2b OEM £54.75

Total: £460.40 inc. Del & VAT

This would play most games near maxed out and Crysis medium at a decent res.

shearMario

cool thats some nice stuff...thanks...

just one more question...

a pc with an AMD Athlon 64X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+

3gb of ram, a crappy nvidia geforc6150se(lol), and a 32-bit operating system...

would the graphics card be the only upgrade needed to play some games on high or??

[QUOTE="shearMario"]

This is the best I could do:

Dabs Value BLACK WIZARD CASE 600W +25CM LED FAN SIDE PANEL £47

Asustek S775 Intel 945GC ATX DDR2 Audio Lan £38.30

Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2180 2.0GHz 1M Cache S775 800MH £45.34

Crucial CT2KIT12864AA667 2x1GB PC2-5300 NonECC CL5 £27.97

Samsung Spinpoint 160GB 7200RPM S300 3.5" £29.66

Asustek GeForce 8800GS 384MB PCIE DDR3 TOP Dual DVI 600/1.8GHz £69.58

LiteOn 20X DVD+/-RW/12XRAM IDE beige + Nero £17.64

Dabs Value Optical Scroll PS2 - Black £3.76

****** ****c Keyboard £4.11

Total: £293.92 inc. Del & VAT

With Monitor & OS:

Dabs Value 20" Wide L-2041W 8ms LCD TFT £109.26

Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition SP2b OEM £54.75

Total: £460.40 inc. Del & VAT

This would play most games near maxed out and Crysis medium at a decent res.

mustaf_nur89

cool thats some nice stuff...thanks...

just one more question...

a pc with an AMD Athlon 64X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+

3gb of ram, a crappy nvidia geforc6150se(lol), and a 32-bit operating system...

would the graphics card be the only upgrade needed to play some games on high or??

If the mobo has a PCI-Express slot then I suggest you just buy a 8800GTS 512MB and you should be able to max out all games apart from Crysis which you could play on high at 1280x768 res with decent fps.

[QUOTE="mustaf_nur89"][QUOTE="shearMario"]

This is the best I could do:

Dabs Value BLACK WIZARD CASE 600W +25CM LED FAN SIDE PANEL £47

Asustek S775 Intel 945GC ATX DDR2 Audio Lan £38.30

Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2180 2.0GHz 1M Cache S775 800MH £45.34

Crucial CT2KIT12864AA667 2x1GB PC2-5300 NonECC CL5 £27.97

Samsung Spinpoint 160GB 7200RPM S300 3.5" £29.66

Asustek GeForce 8800GS 384MB PCIE DDR3 TOP Dual DVI 600/1.8GHz £69.58

LiteOn 20X DVD+/-RW/12XRAM IDE beige + Nero £17.64

Dabs Value Optical Scroll PS2 - Black £3.76

****** ****c Keyboard £4.11

Total: £293.92 inc. Del & VAT

With Monitor & OS:

Dabs Value 20" Wide L-2041W 8ms LCD TFT £109.26

Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition SP2b OEM £54.75

Total: £460.40 inc. Del & VAT

This would play most games near maxed out and Crysis medium at a decent res.

shearMario

cool thats some nice stuff...thanks...

just one more question...

a pc with an AMD Athlon 64X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+

3gb of ram, a crappy nvidia geforc6150se(lol), and a 32-bit operating system...

would the graphics card be the only upgrade needed to play some games on high or??

If the mobo has a PCI-Express slot then I suggest you just buy a 8800GTS 512MB and you should be able to max out all games apart from Crysis which you could play on high at 1280x768 res with decent fps.

cool thanks for that!

Closest i could come to £500, if you drop the E7200 for a E2180 it'll save you about £44