Help with P.C Gaming hardware

[Daveman]

I?m looking for a P.C for around £700 ($1,140) I can go as high as £800 ($1,300) but only if its a major jump in quality

That's an easy price range. Mine was about £800 (with buying vista) 2 years ago and it runs oblivion at full spec, crysis and anything I've tried running. ergo graphics are better than PS3. Mine was recommended by PC gamer magazine, they did it ages ago "build a cheap gaming PC" column. Try googling it. Also they gave advice on the build and overclocking.

 

[not a zaar]

You can make an awesome PC for that amount... It all clips together easily, only things you need to worry about are getting a decent PSU, (300V should be fine for anything) and heat paste.
I got a laptop and I rarely move it, depends on your course I suppose...
Where are you hoping to go to Uni?

You probably mean 300 Watts, not Volts, but that's a bit of a marketing misdirection. When you're buying a PSU don't look at the overall Wattage rating, the important thing to look at is the current output (in Amps) on the 12V rail. You have to do a little bit of reading into the product description to find it. Depending on how power-hungry your GPU and CPU are you're probably going to want at least 30A on the 12V rail.

 

[EMFCRACKSHOT]

I got a fairly good gaming laptop at the price. Processor is only 2.13ghz but graphics card is top notch. I can play crysis so it does me

I got it from laptops direct. They have some good deals

What's graphics card did it come with? I will eat my e-hat if it's anything much better than an 9600GT. And at what settings are you playing Crysis? What's the framerate? Inquiring minds want to know!

It is in fact a 9600gt. I'm plating on normal, i cba finding how to change them. I don't know the framerate. i am a complete techtard

 

[Horticulture]

If you decide to build yourself, these parts perform pretty well and will leave some of your budget for Windows (if you need a copy) and peripherals/monitor. The Intel CyberPower uhgungawa linked to also looks like a pretty good deal.

CPU: AMD Phenom II 940 (3 GHz) [http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/AMD-Phenom-II-X4-940-Black-Edition-Deneb-S-AM2plus-30GHz-8MB-Total-Cache-HT-2000MHz-125W-Retail]
Motherboard: Gigabyte 790x (AM2+) [http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Gigabyte-GA-MA790X-UD4-AMD-790X-AM2plus-PCI-E-20(x16)-DDR2-1066-1200-800-SATA-II-SATA-RAID-ATX]
Video Card: Radeon 4870 1GB (XFX) [http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/1GB-XFX-HD-4870-PCI-E-20-(x16)-3600MHz-GDDR5-GPU-750MHz-800-Cores-2x-DL-DVI-I-HDTV-HDCP]
RAM: 4GB Corsair DDR2-1066 [http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/4GB-(2x2GB)-Corsair-TwinX-XMS2-DDR2-PC2-6400-(800)-240-Pins-Non-ECC-Unbuffered-CAS-5-5-5-18-DHX]
Power Supply: Corsait 650W [http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/650W-TX-Corsair-PSU-single-12V-rail-energy-efficient-quiet-and-cool-fully-compatible-5yr-warranty]
Hard Drive: 640GB Western Digital Black [http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/640GB-Western-Digital-WD6401AALS-Caviar-Black-SATA-300-7200-rpm-32MB-Cache]
Optical: DVD-R (Samsung) [http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Samsung-SH-S203D-BEBN-20x-DVDR-12x-DVDDL-DVD-plusRW-x8-RW-x6-SATA-Black-OEM]
Case: fan [http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Antec-Three-Hundred-Black-Midi-Tower-Case-w-o-PSU]