New PC for brother

[Kani]

He is willing to spend £400-£500 and to be honest isn't asking for much - there is a new counter strike game coming out January 2012 ish called Counter Strike Condition Zero i think and he wants a computer which will run this perfectly, this means it has to be a decent graphics card, prefer 4 GB ram and a duel-quad core processor and this is just for the base unit, he already has a monitor.


See what you lot come up with

 

[Skyline]

Does he want to build it himself, e.g. Buy all the parts deperate, or does he want to buy a ready built one?

For the money, he will get a better spec by building his own.

I've priced an i5 2500k, 4GB RAM for around £300, that;s with case and PSU, but doesn't include a HDD as I already have one, graphics card, or the little bits like DVD Drive, as I alread have these too.

So add a few extra hundered quid he should be able to get a decent rig.

Read the thread somewhere in here about a guy that's just bought a new PC. It has a few different setups in there.

 

[Karl]

He is willing to spend £400-£500 and to be honest isn't asking for much - there is a new counter strike game coming out January 2012 ish called Counter Strike Condition Zero i think and he wants a computer which will run this perfectly, this means it has to be a decent graphics card, prefer 4 GB ram and a duel-quad core processor and this is just for the base unit, he already has a monitor.


See what you lot come up with

Coolermaster Hyper 212 Quiet CPU Cooler 4 Heat Pipes 120mm Fan Intel S775/AM2/AM2+/AM3/754/939/940
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition, Thuban, Sok AM3, 3.2GHz, 9MB Total Cache, 125W, Retail
8GB Corsair DDR3 XMS3, PC3-10666 (1333), Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 9-9-9-24, 1.50V
500GB Seagate ST3500413AS Barracuda 7200.12, SATA 6Gb/s, 7200rpm, 16MB Cache, 8.5ms, NCQ
600W PSU, Silverstone Tech. Strider SST-ST60F-ES, 80% Eff', 80 PLUS, SLI/CrossFire, EPS 12V, Quiet Fan, ATX v2.3
Sharkoon T9 Value Red Edition Mid Tower Case inc Front USB 3.0/Audio, Cable Management
Samsung WriteMaster SH-S222AB/BEBE 22x DVD±R, 12x DVD±R, DVD+RW x8/-RW x6, SATA, Black, OEM
Asus M5A87, AMD 870, AM3+, PCI-E 2.0 (x16), DDR3 1600(OC)/ 2000(OC), SATA 6Gb/s, SATA RAID, ATX
1GB XFX HD 6850 XXX, 4200MHz GDDR5, GPU 800MHz, 960 Stream Processors, HDMI/ DisplayPort/ 2x DVI

Total Price including delivery comes to £550.89

Could easily go below £500 by trimming things down but to be honest for the spec id definately find the extra 50 quid, however:
Trim off 4gb Ram = £20
Cheaper case = £20
Cheaper PSU = £30
Drop to a Dual CPU = £50

I think for that extra £120 quid though you'd have a build that will last at least 5 years has an am3+ board so its easy just to drop in a brand new AMD processor when needed and ram upgradeable to 16gb.
Dropping down you'd get poorer quality and lesser reliability of components, noiser machine.

Specced up on www.scan.co.uk

 

[Kani]

thanks guys!