[Woodzy]

Hey everyone,

I have a friend who currently uses a laptop he's now had enough of how slow it is and how it cant handle a few programs at once, so he wants me to put a pc together for him he has give me a budget of £800 thats including a screen within the price!

So has anyone got any ideas the system will be used for a little gaming no overclocking ect.

He wants to shop at overclockers.co.uk as he lives near by the shop.

Thank for any help if you have any questions please ask

[>HyperlogiK<]

On that budget I would consider what I did for my last build (when I had just moved countries and money was tight), buy a mid range OEM machine in a decent looking case and gradually swap out bits over time. Otherwise, have a look at AVForums' classifieds.

[Knufire]

Hey, welcome to OCF!

When trying to recommend a build to you, there's some information that's extremely helpful for us to know. If you could answer these few short questions, we'd be happy to help!

• What are you planning to do with this compuer? Please be as specfic as possible.

• What is your budget?

  1. Does this include a copy of Windows?
  2. Does this include peripheals (a keyboard, monitor, mouse, speakers, etc.)?

• Are you from the United States or a different country? Are you ordering from your own country or from across borders?

  1. Wherever you may be from, does the store that you are planning to order from have a website? It's okay if it isn't in English, we can manage.
  2. If you are from the United States, do you live nearby a Microcenter?

• Do you have any specific requests with the build?

  1. Do you plan on overclocking? If yes, do you have a specific goal in mind?
  2. Would you prefer the build to be particularly small?
  3. Would you prefer the build to be particularly quiet?
  4. In general, do you prefer this to be a computer that you can spend money on now and let it rest, or a box built for continuous upgrading?
  5. Do you ever plan on utilizing NVIDIA's SLI or AMD's CrossfireX technologies? These features, with a compatible motherboard, allow a user to link multiple identical graphic cards together for added performance. In real world terms, this lets you buy a second identical graphics card down the line as a relatively cheap and easy way to gain a fairly large boost in performance. However, this requires buying a SLI/CFX compatible motherboard and PSU now, which may result in slightly higher initial cost.

Once again, thank you in advance for taking the time to answer these, and I hope you enjoy your stay at OCF!

[Woodzy]

Thanks again for the help

Will be no need for SLI/Crossfire

Like i said hes just building a system as his laptop is very slow all he will be doing is plying the odd game here and there and will use the system work related i.e word documents ect.

I already have case so that wont be needed.

Thanks again.

[Knufire]

I'd go with something like this. For non-power users, a large SSD and a really nice screen are going to make more of a difference than CPU or GPU horsepower. Left budget in there to get one of the 27" Catleap monitors.

[manu2b]

^

[Woodzy]

Whats games would that run? Also would it handle multiple tasks at a nice speed?

Thank you for putting that together.


Edit : what about this

[Knufire]

The previous is essentially a unlocked Athlon II X4 and a 6770.

My reasoning behind that was that for a normal user they're only going to notice the more powerful CPU/GPU combo in a small percentage of tasks. However, they're going to notice the difference with a SSD and a really nice screen much more.

[PolePosition]

That is quite a system there Knufire, and I especially like the SSD
Makes me wish I had waited a bit, but the really good deals always come out after the fact.