There's always good bargains available if your prepared to wait and shop around, and that includes 2nd hand PC's or parts. On Gumtree on Sunday I noticed a guy selling an Asus SLI Gaming motherboard complete with an 8 core I7 cpu and decent CPU cooler on the board, plus 6 gig of DDR3 Gaming ram and a 850 watt modular PSU and a 1024 gig nvida GTX 260 card. All that lot for £70 , so i straight away contacted the guy and drove to his place of work between Cardiff and Barry yesterday morning. 

When i got to his place of work he opened the boot of his car to show me the PC bits, but they were still situated inside a Gigabyte Aurora 570 solid aluminum ATX gaming tower. He then told me I could have the case as well, beings it was far too big and heavy for his needs now.  As you can imagine I was rubbing my hands together just like Delboy , because bargains like that rarely come up for sale at such a cheap price.  To top off the deal he even gave me £10 back just after i passed the £70 to him, and he told me that would cover my fuel cost  .  Ok it was a 46 mile round trip to go and get the bits, but my god it was well worth it.

When i got home I straight away put a 500 gig hard drive and sata connection lead into the case, and I had windows 10 up and running within about 30 minutes. Also in the case were three decent system cooling fans, so I didn't need to put any of those into it  .  Last night I was looking on Gumtree again for a decent graphic card to add to the system, and I noticed a Newport guy has been trying to sell his Gigabyte NVIDA GTX 680 OC 4 GiG card without success for £85 for about a month now. I messaged him last night and managed to get the card this morning for £55  . All I need now is a 6 to 8 pin PCIE adapter lead to run the card in the PC, and I've ordered 2 of them from Ebay this morning for £2.74.  At the end of the day I'll have a spare I7 based gaming rig which has only cost me £117.74. Now beat that if you can .