Decentish gaming PC for £500

[Me__2001]

thats a good spec, change the RAM to some Corsair or Geil value its about £35 for 512MB, the graphics card isn't gonna be good for gaming, if you get a 6600GT it will cost about £50 more and will be alot better, then all you need is a case and decent PSU

 

[Thackerz]

In terms of the PSU, what kinda thing am I looking for? Bearing in mid the restricted budget as well,,,

 

[Me__2001]

a decent make like antec, enermax, tagan and it will need to be 400W minimum, i'd recommend a Tagan TG420-U01 420W which is about £50

 

[Thackerz]

OK, so I'm ordering most of it from dabs to get myself a good 9 month interest free credit thingy. I have now got in my basket a "Tagan 420W PSU - Black Series" for 49p short of £50. This is what you're meaning yes?

And I've decided to stick with the Radeon X700, I mean, when I say gaming, I don't mean overloaded with bang up to date, high spec games, as long as it plays Pro Evo 4 then I will be happy. Just got to decide what £25 case to get now.

 

[Me__2001]

i've had a quick look on their site and thats the one, that graphics card will handle just about anything you throw at it but thee newer the game the lower the quality will need to be set to, for cheap case look at the ones below obviously the PSU's will be useless but the cases are ok

http://www.dabs.com/uk/Search2/Product+Details.htm?quicklinx=389t&searchphrase=case

http://www.dabs.com/uk/Search2/Product+Details.htm?quicklinx=3LH6&searchphrase=case

http://www.dabs.com/uk/Search2/Product+Details.htm?quicklinx=3LHC&searchphrase=case

http://www.dabs.com/uk/Search2/Product+Details.htm?quicklinx=3NW2&searchphrase=case

 

[Alf]

get the 6600GT, its better than the X700 series in most respects.
nice system build by the way

 

[Thackerz]

One last quick question, will a 30.5cm x 24.5cm mobo fit in most cases? I'm guessing it will but some of these of dabs say something about all cases up to 244mm.

 

[Me__2001]

if it is an ATX case then the motherboard will fit, what case is it ?

 

[Thackerz]

I'm currently quite tempted by the Aspire X-Dreamer,

http://www.dabs.com/uk/Search2/Product+Details.htm?quicklinx=3PQ6&searchphrase=Aspire X-Dreamer

 

[Me__2001]

thats nice looking case and comes with a lot of things for the price, the motherboard will fit in that fine so buy it you know you want to