PC Gaming

[Scott]

If you want to build a decent rig, there are a few areas which you will want to spend your money in..

Motherboard - A decent Sandybridge one will set you back £100
Processor - Bang for buck, the i5-2500k is a great cpu. £170
Power supply - You CANNOT skimp here. No excuses. Budget £60+
RAM - Cheap as chips these days. £40 gets you 8GB of decent stuff.
Graphics Card - Does the bulk of the work for modern games. The more you spend the longer it will last. £140 gets a decent GTX card.
HDD - Although you have storage, you will ideally want an SSD for your OS, but this is optional. £80 gets you 120GB.
Case & Cooling - Whatever you like really. A decent cpu cooler will set you back £20.

I recently built a gaming rig, in total it came to roughly £700. That includes 2 monitors and fan controllers etc though..

Thanks mate Yeah I was planning on getting myself an SSD, I've noticed they've dropped a lot in price recently so £80 for the 120Gb drives isn't too bad at all. One thing I'd probably want to add is a decent sound card.

Forgot to mention I'm happy to build it myself too, so no need to worry about adding cost for that. I'd say £700 sounds pretty reasonable really.