Gaming computer on a tight budget

[Deleted]

My cousin visited me a few days ago and was amazed at my gaming PC (he's turning 11). He doesn't own a computer himself, but has been saving for a long time to buy one. His father has now asked me to fix something for his birthday in about 2 months time, and the budget is a strict 4000SEK, without Windows.

Case: Cooler Master Elite 341: Seems like a decent mATX case
MoBo: MSI H67MS-E23 B3: Basically the cheapest H67 1155 MoBo I could find.
CPU: i3 2100
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 4Gb (2x2) DDR3 1600Mhz
GPU: Gigabyte GeForce GT440 1Gb
HDD: Samsung Spinpoint F3 500Gb
PSU: Corsair CX 430W V2
+ DVD Reader/Writer

Total cost is 4020SEK (~$400).


Any opinions?

[OhpUldum]

You could drop down to 1333Mhz memory and probably save another ~$20 or so. Outside of that looks good.

[Roscoe]

Encourage him to going outside, making friends, and being active at that age. Wait a few years for him to start gaming or his social life will be screwed.

Computer = meh. It's a start.

[Deleted]

Encourage him to going outside, making friends, and being active at that age. Wait a few years for him to start gaming or his social life will be screwed.

Computer = meh. It's a start.

Its for an 11 year old.......


Its perfect, take the ram Mhz down a bit as suggested above, it won't make any difference for what he would use it for.

[Deleted]

Surprisingly, the Vengeance (2x2Gb, 1600Mhz) goes for 353SEK and the XMS3 CL9 (2x2Gb, 1333Mhz) goes for 333SEK.

[dlouhys]

My cousin visited me a few days ago and was amazed at my gaming PC (he's turning 11). He doesn't own a computer himself, but has been saving for a long time to buy one. His father has now asked me to fix something for his birthday in about 2 months time, and the budget is a strict 4000SEK, without Windows.

Case: Cooler Master Elite 341: Seems like a decent mATX case
MoBo: MSI H67MS-E23 B3: Basically the cheapest H67 1155 MoBo I could find.
CPU: i3 2100
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 4Gb (2x2) DDR3 1600Mhz
GPU: Gigabyte GeForce GT440 1Gb
HDD: Samsung Spinpoint F3 500Gb
PSU: Corsair CX 430W V2
+ DVD Reader/Writer

Total cost is 4020SEK (~$400).


Any opinions?

What about a monitor, keyboard, mouse?

[Deleted]

Encourage him to going outside, making friends, and being active at that age. Wait a few years for him to start gaming or his social life will be screwed.

Hehe, he is already ruined! His older brother just moved in with his girlfriend and left a PS3. Joke aside, the computer will be used for other than gaming, e.g. school work. His father (my uncle) is looking to throw away their 6 year old family computer as he has a laptop from work he uses.

---------- Post added 2011-07-30 at 06:38 PM ----------

What about a monitor, keyboard, mouse?

All inherited from their old family computer. So is the speakers, windows, etc.