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[KIERONOO]

Im doing a project to help get into uni which is the subject title I thought might aswell make a decent one and I'm a complete noob at this so can anyone help on which parts are best for each area on a 400-550 pound budget. Games end up playing are steam games and games like Diablo 3 and sim city

[Elite-Hawk]

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KIERONOO wrote:
Im doing a project to help get into uni which is the subject title I thought might aswell make a decent one and I'm a complete noob at this so can anyone help on which parts are best for each area on a 400-550 pound budget. Games end up playing are steam games and games like Diablo 3 and sim city

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http://pcpartpicker.com/uk/p/a7gV

Adjust the CPU if you want.

[LordRoss]

New Sim City or old one?

I'm guessing the upcoming Sim City will be processor hungry.

[KIERONOO]

Probably both sim city

[James91]

How about this one plus this case?

http://pcpartpicker.com/uk/p/abWN

http://www.ebuyer.com/172779-casecom-6788-all-black-case-km-6788-black

eBuyer are also doing this mobo - http://www.ebuyer.com/351598-gigabyte-ga-z77-d3h-socket-1155-vga-dvi-hdmi-8-channel-audio-atx-mother... - plus a free Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro rev 2 fan

Once the case is added in it's a bit over budget but it has an i5 2500K plus a Z77 mobo (so you can OC in the future, or straight off if you get that eBuyer deal with the cooler), 2TB of space so plenty and 4GB of RAM should be enough still.

[xElfenLied_US]

I won't be buying the new Sim City. Not from what I've heard about it. I can't even find the link of where I read all this bad stuff about it, because there's somehow a huge gap in my Facebook timeline, from when I posted D:

[James91]

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xElfenLied_US wrote:
I won't be buying the new Sim City. Not from what I've heard about it. I can't even find the link of where I read all this bad stuff about it, because there's somehow a huge gap in my Facebook timeline, from when I posted D:

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Care to try to elaborate?

[ArsenalMark]

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James91 wrote:

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xElfenLied_US wrote:
I won't be buying the new Sim City. Not from what I've heard about it. I can't even find the link of where I read all this bad stuff about it, because there's somehow a huge gap in my Facebook timeline, from when I posted D:

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Care to try to elaborate?

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Probably due to it requiring Origin - and possibly due to their being a "Limited Edition" with exclusive DLC, and then a "Collector's Edition" with yet more exclusive DLC.

I won't be buying it for the DLC reason, which is a shame, I like Sim City.

[Muttykins]

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KIERONOO wrote:
Im doing a project to help get into uni which is the subject title I thought might aswell make a decent one and I'm a complete noob at this so can anyone help on which parts are best for each area on a 400-550 pound budget. Games end up playing are steam games and games like Diablo 3 and sim city

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You could try here & buy a bare bones bundle all you need to add is a hdd, dvd drive & graphics card.

You basically build the system youself.

http://www.novatech.co.uk/barebonebundles/

[fenian]

Is the gaming pc going to be for a course you're doing? or for like a gaming rig to play games on while youre not in uni?

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xElfenLied_US wrote:
I won't be buying the new Sim City. Not from what I've heard about it. I can't even find the link of where I read all this bad stuff about it, because there's somehow a huge gap in my Facebook timeline, from when I posted D:

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Trying to find old stuff on facebook is a nightmare, You know its there somewhere but next to impossible to find, i have spent ages looking for stuff I knew I posted myself.