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Best Budget Gaming PC Help needed.
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If it is intel based then the Q6600 chip is best bang for your buck .
It will need to be the SLACR chip the one with GO stepping.
This can be overclocked,
Fit a good CPUcooler I went for a zalman aero flower..plus arctic silver thermal paste
Go for something like an Asus P5E motherboard
Ram is So cheap now So I would put 4Gb in. OCZ or Crucial
The samsung spinpoint hard drives are cheap and fast 750 or 1 TB.
The antec 900 case runs very cool and is easy to build in.
The power supply will need to be good...You need to hope scan or ebyer do a special offer.
Graphics card .I would go for one of the good older generation I have a zotac 9800 GT.which is pretty good and fairly cheap.
Get a sata dvd writer . really cheap on play.com
This is the machine I recently built for my daughter ...I have to build one for my son now ..It is extremly fast and quiet and runs very cool 29 to 34 degrees C.
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this is for the box and it assumes you already have keyboard ,mouse and monitor and operating system ...So maybe no Good .0 -
globalds, the OP has stated they have a 9800 card (not sure which model). That looks a nice build, complete with monitor etc..did it come under the OPs £500 budget?
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courtesy of hotukdeals there is also a voucher to discount apparentlymulldoonuk wrote: »That's not a bad little rig for the price.
Use £13.00 off voucher XXC7NM for this price. There's also 3% cashback through quico
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Wow thanks again guys hubby has a lot to look at when he comes home. I have been giving him periodic updates by phone of all your replies. He said to say that we do not have the operating system and would need to buy Vista Home Premium hopefully cheaply!!!The victims we know so well
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Tony you are a wonderfully helpful person, thanks again!!The victims we know so well
They shine in your eyes
When they kiss and tell
Strange places we never see
But you're always there
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carolannjo wrote: »Tony you are a wonderfully helpful person, thanks again!!
ah...thank you
:grouphug:Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant.0
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