Computer upgrade for £400

[fishy]

A mate of mine wants to upgrade their computer. He has a budget of £400 and would like a new motherboard, CPU, graphics card, RAM, hard drive and case. What would you guys suggest as the best components for that budget?
Cheers.

[Humbug]

what do they want to do with it.... what components are they re-using if any? ( HDD, DVD drives, Case...)

and what do they have now?

[fishy]

They want to use it for gaming and they are re-using their DVD drive and case.

[frymaster]

they're reusing their case? you said in the OP that they needed one...

for 400, getting it all migh be a struggle

[Humbug]

couldnt hit the £400 budget and tbh fry is right.  always going to struggle with a tight budget like that. 

after 10 mins of looking however i got this... slightly over though.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-267-OK&groupid=43&catid=1817&subcat=

"Primo Ascension" Intel Core i3 H55 DDR3 Ready Barebones (Socket 1156)    £94.99

System Specification
- Case: Black Knight Micro ATX case - Black
- Motherboard: Asus P7H55-M (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard
- Power Supply: OcUK Value 450W PSU

Intel Core i3 530 2.93GHz (Clarkdale) (Socket LGA1156) - Retail     £91.64

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500418AS)  £37.59

Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit  £89.29

VTX ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card  £123.36


All roughly £439  - NO operating system though or monitor however it does include the case...... went for a 5770 for graphics but you could go lower though i wouldnt recommend it.

like i said this is after a quick 10 min look.

eek  actually i didnt check if the gfx card would fit in the case.....might wanna make sure on that

[fishy]

Cheers for your help, i didn't realise i had case in the OP.

[Enef]

Mine was £400 :/ (a LITTLE bit more but meh)

[Humbug]

if they are using their case.. what PSU do that have.. ?

enef what was your spec again,.. can u link it here

[frymaster]

this is enef's:

http://img.127001.org/img/enef.png

but prices have been going up

still, if there's an equivalent system, I'd buy a core2quad over a dual-core i3 these days

[Humbug]

this is enef's:

still, if there's an equivalent system, I'd buy a core2quad over a dual-core i3 these days

i chose this one as i thought it was a good entry level with the capacity to upgrade to an i7 (so i7 8xx quad series) at a later date (not too much later) should they wish. Of course, if they got the money to go i7 9xx series.. that would be better

just my 2p anyway

edit

a Intel Core i7 860 2.80GHz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1156) - Retail (cheapest on overclocekrs) - £218.98 - would of put this but it's a headtshot to the budget   i also would of gone fore a completely different system