i have just built a marvellous PC for my brother for:
Athlon II x3 at 3.2GHz - £58
Asus 880G/USB3 m/b - £68
4GB DDR3 at 1333MHz - £48
Nvidia 460GTX 768MB - £114
grand total = ~£280
a fitting rig for Guild Wars 2 now that he is the big cheese at Zam
if you want something more bling, what I have:
Phenom X6 at 3.2GHz - £180
Gigabyte 890FX UD5 - £140
8GB DDR3 at 1600MHz - £105
ATI 5870HD 2GB - £300
after xmas however a number of cool things will happen:
Intel release sandy-bridge which means CPU prices for everyone goes down.
ATI release the successor to my card; the 6970
up to you
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