Gaming Computer for under £400?

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Y2Kyle

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Can anyone reccomend me a decent Gaming Computer for under £400?

This would be everything from the case, to cpu, motherboard, ram etc. I already have mouses, keyboards, monitors and cd drives.

I am looking for something to smoothly run decent 3d graphics and games like call of duty and fallout.
 
Hows this...now its slightly overbudget £407.07 (choosing the 5 day free delivery option on Ebuyer.)

AMD Athlon II X4 640 Socket AM3 3GHz 2MB L2 Cache Retail Boxed Processor
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/242140

Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H 880G Socket AM3 8 Channel Audio mATX Motherboard
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/218935

Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro rev 2 Socket 775, 1156, 1366, AM2, AM3 Heatpipe CPU Cooler
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/176157

G Skill Ripjaws 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1600mhz Cas9 Dual Channel Memory
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/240501

Samsung HD103SJ Spinpoint F3 1TB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 32MB Cache
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/173804

ATI Radeon 5670 1GB GDDR5
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/prods/components/atiradeongraphicscards/Novatech/NOV-56701.html

OCZ 500W ModXStream Pro Power Supply - UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B001GLFD...de=asn&creative=22206&creativeASIN=B001GLFD4U


Antec 300 Three Hundred Case
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/143854

You could probably lower the price a little by just using the stock Heatsink/Fan instead of the aftermarket Artic freezer i choose,and also using a cheaper case,although id not recommend doing that.
 
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A sort of similar build but from a different retailer:
Asus M4A78LT-M - £47
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev. 2.1 - £16
SpinPoint F3 1TB - £41
Athlon II X3 445 - £56
2 x 2GB Corsair DDR3 1600MHz CL9 - £41
Same PSU - £50
NZXT Beta Evo - £35
Sapphire HD 5770 1GB - £100

CPU - Slight cutback here, though since few games use four cores you should be ok, plus the extra GHz (445 is slightly better OC'er too) will help in FPS games.
Case - Good quality, matches the 300 in cooling, nice cable management features, a tidy mid-tower for not much cash
GPU - A huge improvement over the HD5670. Frame Rates maybe 40-50% better in GPU-hungry games.
RAM - Good brand, same clocks/timings as above, for less
Mobo - I don't think it's worth having an 800 series chipset for this build. The mobo is mATX, so your case'll have better airflow, also the mobo is well featured, though there is no option to Crossfire/SLi in the future, there is on the one nev posted but only at 16x/4x, which means one card will get significantly less bandwidth. Also it has integrated graphics like the one above in case your GPU for whatever reason failed

EDIT: Oops forgot to add final cost: £386, you'll get better FPS
 
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You could probably fit a higher quality PSU in there. An Antec HGC 520 would be in about the same price range, I think.
 
Hey guys, thanks for the great advice. I've just looked through both of your options and both seem pretty decent.

Yes, I already have a copy of Windows so no need to worry about that ;D My dad has a copy that he does not need to use.

Just to check, all of this stuff would be compatible with the motherboard right? :)
 
Y2Kyle said:
Hey guys, thanks for the great advice. I've just looked through both of your options and both seem pretty decent.

Yes, I already have a copy of Windows so no need to worry about that ;D My dad has a copy that he does not need to use.

Just to check, all of this stuff would be compatible with the motherboard right? :)
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Yes. :)
 
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