Which CPU

For GPU I like this >

GPU looks good. It will probably be blazing fast when playing games and watching vids...

The HIS ATI Radeon 5670 IceQ has some good reviews ... and I like ATI (cant get my head around calling it AMD ... yet )

Price seems high to me. It is the lower end chipset (H67 vs P67), off-brand minimal wattage PSU - if you want to upgrade your graphics card to a more powerful one, you would need to replace the PSU, and no graphics card. The PSU wattage is the minimum for the graphics card you specified.

What brand Motherboard, do you know?

GeneO & linnemeyerhere thanks for the info :)

pparks1 said:

From everything I have read, the Intel Sandy Bridge CPU is going to outperform just about everything better...the only exception would be a serious mutiple core coded application that would take advantage of those extra two cores.

This just doesn't even seem like a question to me, based on my reading. It's the Sandy Bridge all the way right now.

Thank you pparks1 ... info noted

Ciara said:

Thanks Solarstarshines

This is the i5 Bundle just need to add fans, HDDs, Optical drive and OS

(snip)

Sorry Forum wont let me rep you

I'm unconvinced that it's a bargain.

I'd suggest a P67 board, rather than an H67:

MSI P67A-C45 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) Motherboard

(About £100),

An overclockable I5-2500k CPU:

Intel Core i5 2500K 3.30GHz (Sandy Bridge) Socket LGA1155 - Retail.

(£180),

plus a relatively robust power supply for its price:

Corsair CX 600W ATX2.2 Power Supply

(£56). For the RAM, maybe:

Corsair XMS3 TwinX 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Dual Channel Kit

(£42) The total so far is £378, including VAT.

Not sure what to recommend for a case, but this one looks serviceable, although it lacks a lot of gamer flash:

CoolerMaster Elite 334 Case

(£31). Total would be £409.

For your extra £69 you'd get a good PSU, an overclockable CPU, and a name-brand motherboard and RAM. I believe that it'd be a considerably more powerful PC, particularly if you were willing to clock the CPU up a little. (4.2 GHz should be easy.) The case that I list includes one 120 mm fan (rear exhaust), but you might want a second (front intake).

You'd have the additional labor of installing the CPU to the motherboard, and the motherboard to the case.

This is a hastily-prepared list, but I hope that it represents a fair representation of a good, relatively inexpensive, Intel based system. I admit that the "Sandy Bridge" CPUs and motherboards seem to be undergoing some teething problems at the moment, but once they are sorted I think they'll offer the best price/performance at the moment.

Thanks for the list/links bobkn, I will be looking close at your recommendations. I can install the CPU and Motherboard, and for case I like > Antec Dark Fleet Series DF10 Gaming Enclosure - Black £66.37