Building new PC

**Darkeagle** · 25th January 2009, 06:22 PM

Ok, i know everyone makes these posts so i am joining in. I am looking to buy a new comp soon, and yes i am building it my self. I am on a bit of a budget, so i am looking for a cheap, good gaming PC, i dont want a immense one, but a good one would be, well good.

Budget probably 400-700 Cheaper the better though.

If any one could spec me one up, that would be great, i dont need a OS, or a monitor, keyboard or mouse.

Oh, if you can get a good comp for less than 400, then great, but i doubt you can.

Thanks

Darkeagle

**VoX** · 25th January 2009, 06:43 PM

£400-£700? Large budget range then lol.

You should get a v good one due to no OS or Peripherals.

**Darkeagle** · 25th January 2009, 06:44 PM

well, i want a cheap one, so anyone give me a spec?

probabaly best in the 400-500 tbh

**Calneon** · 25th January 2009, 07:09 PM

Would be perfect for you, and I think I remember you said you had a small monitor so it would run pretty much everything on max settings.

**VoX** · 25th January 2009, 07:13 PM

Phantom - Eugh, P4 Dual Core. Also, single slot 4850s are known to overheat.

**Colonel Mitch** · 25th January 2009, 08:27 PM

To quickly mention - Pentium D isnt worth looking at comapred to teh core 2 tbh, and ive built a pc with 2 single slot 4850s in crossfire before, and chirs has a single 1 and neitehr have ever had a problem. If you did u can tweak the fan anyway by downlaoding something to fix that.

This doesnt include a processor as you may have noticed.

I have a Core 2 Duo (wolfdale) E8500 - 3.16GHZ 1333FSB thats been spare for about 9 months now and was only ever used for less than a week. I'd sell it for £100 including the standard fan, which is required for warranty. It has over 2 years warranty left on it and was originally purchased from OCUK and i can get you proof of purchase too.

- It was only purchased as I thought my Quad Core had died, but it turned out it was my old motherboard that had, and as such it hasnt been used since.

To sum up this pc would have:

4850 512MB DDR3
500GB Hard Disk
4GB DDR2 800MHZ ram
Core 2 Duo (wolfdale) E8500 @ 3.16GHz 1333FSB
Quite nice case
Fast DVD-Burner

And would cost in total about £415 with next day delivery on everthing.

**Calneon** · 25th January 2009, 08:56 PM

I'd go with what Mitch said. I made a mistake with the Pentium D, was just trying to keep it as close to £400 as possible.

**Target** · 26th January 2009, 01:54 AM

Chalex can u create a proper like forum bit for this and we can put like a range of different specs in different price catagories so people can easily find what they want for the money they have???

**VoX** · 26th January 2009, 05:20 PM

Was thinking about something like that a while ago, sort of like an ATK System Guides Section.

When I've got a bit more time I'll make a sticky in the forum and keep it updated with specs that people PM me with.