£720 Gaming PC

[nemesiszero]

Building a Gaming PC for a friend his budget is £720 this is what I have come up with. I open for suggestions to improvement at no extra cost.

CPU: Intel Sandybridge i5-2500K
£166.97

Motherboard: Gigabyte SKT-1155 Z77X-D3H
£100.01

Memory: Corsair Vengeance Memory 8GB 1600MHz
£43.28

Graphics Card: Asus Radeon HD 7850
£186.98

Power Supply: OCZ ModXStream Pro 600W
£58.57

Case: NZXT Phantom 410
£79.68

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Black
£81.99

TOTAL: £717.48

 

[seumasbeathan]

Drop the OCZ power supply and put in a Corsair CX600, Other than that its pretty good

 

[jamesriley94]

I'd still say go for an MSI Z77a-G45 and a 3570k if you can squeeze it in. Other than that, I agree with Seumas about the psu.

Fine other than that - think the case is a little cliche though :/

 

[seumasbeathan]

^+1 The g45 is about £20 cheaper I think and he 3570k £20 more so that should work out fine

 

[yassarikhan786]

What about a cooler? If you're not going to be using the stock cooler than the CM Hyper 212+ is a really good cooler for the price. I had one before I changed it and the temps were very reasonable.

Also I agree with the above about the PSU. I've never used an OCZ PSU, but they seem to have a very bad reputation when it comes to PSU's, so it would be better to avoid them.

 

[ruairi.C]

should get a cavier blue imo. similar performance, much more reasonable price

 

[Josh Weston]

You know it makes sense.