New PC Build

[Jason87]

Hi,

I was just wondering if people could give me some advice. My uncle is looking to buy my cousin a new computer, but I told him I'd build one. The PC will generally for browsing the Internet/burning CD's and playing the latest games. The last computer I built was my own 2 years ago so I'm not sure on what's the best products to be buying, although I want Intel/Nvidia; I've had too many bad experiences with AMD/ATI.

My uncle does not want to spend anymore than around ?700 on the computer and ?200 on a monitor.

Should I go for DDR3 instead of DDR2? Also would it be worth getting a small SSD and another SATA Hard drive? I was also thinking of going for one graphics card as he won't really have any use for SLI/CrossfireX.

Also I was thinking of going for a Quad Core processor, which I will not be overclocking.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Jason.

[+PeterUK MVC]

SSD would hit hard for the budget of the computer so a 1TB would be best.

With or without OS?

Without OS ruff layout

Intel Core i5 750

Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3

SATA DVD RW

SATA 1TB

4GB DDR3 1600MHz

GTX 260

550W Corsair

?60 ~ case that you can pick eg. Coolermaster CM-690 V2 Dominator

Under ?700 add better CPU cooler will put it over but you can get a good 22? monitor for ?180~

[Jason87]

Hi Peter,

Thanks for the reply. Yeah, that's without an OS as I have spare free Windows 7 licence from my MSDNAA account :).

That looks good, I'll probably have a look around and order the parts today for him :).

Thanks,

Jason.