Oh golly no, that's terrible. £300 is a tight budget, even for building a PC yourself but a £300 pre-built is going to be horrific. Like, at least £1k pre-builts are semi-usable. Is £300 his max budget? What exactly will the system be used for?

Sanctyy wrote Oh golly no, that's terrible. £300 is a tight budget, even for building a PC yourself but a £300 pre-built is going to be horrific. Like, at least £1k pre-builts are semi-usable. Is £300 his max budget? What exactly will the system be used for?

He mainly be using it for editing videos, and his max budget is £400.

Well, don't listen to that advice because it's terrible. I'm going to eat some curry but if no one has helped by the time I get back, I'll help.

£7 over budget with postage and everything included.

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It will have you running majority of games at high/max settings.

Not a bad suggestion but if it's not going to be used for gaming, and will only be used for the likes of editing/rendering, drop the GPU, grab an i5 or i7 or something.

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If he's willing to wait, he could do something like this;
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with a Broadwell i7 and no iGPU. The 4C/8T CPU will help with editing/rendering and Broadwell iGPU is going to be a huge improvement. He'll need a bit more money since Broadwell i7 will be pretty expensive but it could be worth it.

Otherwise, the above suggestion is good. Or, the above suggestion with an i5-4460 or something instead of the i3+GPU, maybe add an SSD in, if you can manage.