Ok so it's my birthday soon and I did well in my recent exams (better than I expected) so I figured I would get a gaming PC for my birthday and since its my birthday and because I did well in my exams my parents are fine with buying me one that isn't too expensive. So does anyone have any suggestions, something below ￡500

You need to give people some more information before they can make suggestions:

Do you need an OS?
What peripherals do you need? (Monitor, keyboard, mouse, etc...)
Are you comfortable with building yourself?

The tech thread is also a good place to look.

Just the Hardrive, the stuff I've looked at usually includes windows 7, so having windows as a OS would be good.

When it comes to (most) games, the video card is (usually) the most important factor when it comes to higher FPS rates. Just keep that in mind

You dont need anything but the HDD? You have the Motherboard, CPU, RAM, Power Supply, Video Card, Case, Optical Drive? Also you need a computer with Windows if you plan on playing games, but something like 90% of computers run Windows anyway. Are you able to build it yourself? Or prebuilt?

Congratulations on your exam success. I don't have much to add in the way of advice on PCs I just wanted to say congratulations :thumbsup:

Are you saying you are only comfortable with putting in the hard drive or you only have a HDD that you will use on your existing PC. The OS question is relevant if you are building a PC yourself as it cuts a bit into the budget. You also never answered if you would be willing to build the PC yourself or if you needed a monitor or not?

Thanks

I mean everything in the hardrive, I have the monitor and a printer the hardrive and all the components is what I need

Well I am not quite sure you understand what the hard drive is. A hard drive is http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136533&cm_re=caviar_black_1_tb-_-22-136-533-_-Product but there are many other components as well. (RAM, CPU, motherboard, optical drive, GPU, PSU, case and the OS, which goes on the HDD)

I assume you mean you have a monitor and printer, but need all of the other components for the actual desktop? And you never specified, can you build it yourself, or do you need it pre-built from a manufacturer?

I mean someone builds it for me

http://www.cyberpowersystem.co.uk/system/Cyberpower_H67_configurator/#

This build would run most games pretty well, but it comes out to ￡486.16, and ￡583.42 including VAT.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/syscon_int.php?prodid=FS-283-OK
Customize as follows

Case: Default
Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 840 3.20GHz Quad Core 95W Processor
CPU Cooler: Default
Motherboard: Default
Memory: Default
Graphics Card: OcUK GeForce GTX 560 1024MB GDDR5 Graphics Card
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000524AS)
Optical: Default
Sound Card: Default
Power Supply: Default
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
Cables: Default

Everything else default (unless you need a keyboard, mouse). It will run most games pretty nicely.

The PC you picked out from Cyberpower would need you to choose a good video card. Which would most likely throw you over the budget.

The only downside to going AMD right now is that they are about to refresh their CPUs in the next couple months. But this would be a good gaming PC still.

If someone gave me that suggestion of a good computer I would go for it and with that rig you could actually play Shogun 2 TW pretty stable.