Budget gamer

The system we have choose for a budget gaming machine (sub £900) is:
Case - Corsair 400R
CPU - Intel i5 2500k
Mainboard - Asus P8P67-M Pro
Memory - Corsair vengeance 1600 MHz DDR3
SSD - Corsair Force 120GB SATA III
Graphics - MSI GTX560Ti 448Core 1.2GB
Power Supply - Silverstone strider 600W modular
Cooling - Gelid Tranquillo Rev.2


This system comes in at £857 and has a great amount of power for a gamer, the CPU is great at overclocking and lots of extra performance can be gained. The Tranquillo cooler is perfect for cooling an overclocked CPU and doesn't cost much at all. 4GB of memory is a good amount for a gamer, however at the current price of memory you could upgrade to 8GB at very little cost. The solid state drive allows very fast read/write speeds meaning that the pc boots faster and software loads much faster. The motherboard is MATX and it also supports 2way crossfire/ SLI so the user could upgrade the graphics by just adding a second card. Finally the GTX560Ti 448 core is the bridge between the GTX560 Ti and the GTX570, it can run most games on high settings at a great frame rate for a great price.