MY old pc has DIED... and ermm.. need help looking for a good cheap one.

Friday the 13th takes another victim.

Dead not always means the end of his life.

Do you need something with quadro/firepro? And what is your budget?

This is the PC Gamer UK rig. They consider it the standard for gaming, very reliable and best value for money. They update one component a month and my issue just arrived this morning. It may be out of your price range, but it is a damn fine computer and since you didn't set a limit, I'll type it up anyway.

CPU: Intel Core i5 2500K (£155)

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 (£80)

RAM: Crucial Ballistic Sport (£42)

Case: Cooler Master 80+ (£53)

Hard Drive: Samsung Spinpoint F3 500GB (£39)

DVD Drive: LG GH22NP21 (£17)

3D Card: GeForce GTX 560Ti (£153)

Power Supply: Cooler Master 80+ (£70)

Monitor: LG IPS236V (£142)

Keyboard: Microsoft Sidewinder (£25)

Mouse: Logitech G400 (£30)

Headset: Corsair HS1A (£34)

Total price: £840 (though you can probably drop that down a considerable amount if your monitor etc still work fine)

Heres just a list. I reckon GPU's will fall down in price more due to the release of the newer cards comming out soon.

CPU: Intel core i7 2600k (got mine for £185 on ebay)

RAM: 4gb can get it for around £13-£14 on ebay

GPC: XFX ATI Radeon 5770 1024MB GDDR5 £69.98 be able to play bf3 on high graphics

Hard drive: WHITEBOX Generic Internal 3.5" SATA Hard Drive - 3TB £119.99 Prices sky rocket last year due to the flood but now its falling.

If your old computer still has working parts you could reuse it should as PSU, RAM, Hard drive, etc.

If your budget's only £300, then you won't be able to get any decent PC at all. Sorry mate.

If I were you, I would research what the problem is with your old pc (if you can) and see if you can buy some replacement gear for what might have died on you. It might be cheaper and within your budget to do that instead.

Do you feel comfortable building your on system?
Or are you willing to buy the hardware and have a local store assemble it?

At your budget that may be preferable, so you can scavenge some of the working hardware form your existing computer to save money.

If you want to build your own computer, you can use tinyurl.com/falconguide as a building guide. However, it doesn't include monitors or an OS ( which means if you don't have a copy of Windows 7, you would have to use your old hard drive or acquire it.).

This. Use your current monitor, speakers, mouse/keyboard with it and you should be fine. This is the perfect build for your budget.

It can easily run Skyrim/BF3 on Ultra :)

tinyurl.com/falconguide

Do you have any idea what died exactly? A "dead PC" could be from a dead PSU (cheap and easy to replace), dead CPU, dead motherboard. Even if it's a component you can't easily replace, or don't want to, you'd still have a lot of spares, and be able to reuse your case, your PSU if it's okay, your hard disk, DVD drive, graphics card, whatever. Assuming your current PC does its job adequately for gaming and graphical software, you won't really have to replace that much.

Replacing just some of the components is the most cost effective way to get a new PC. I once changed just the board and CPU (the board is what died) and got a big boost to performance for relatively little money.

Hi guys,

I just bought this pc

Acer Aspire M3910

for 280 pounds.

The only difference to this pc is that mine is an i3 processor and it has 16GB RAM also with gaming mouse and keyboard, an extra 3GB ram and 1783mb graphics card :D

Thanks for the replies.

This PC is perfect for me.

Check this guide.