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hmm. hard to do this for 500, but lets go:

AMD FX-6200 Zambezi 3.8GHz (4.1GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 125W Six-Core Desktop Processor FD6200FRGUBOX - Newegg.com 130$

ASUS M5A97 R2.0 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS - Newegg.com 80$

Newegg.com - Kingston HyperX HyperX 10th Anniversary Series 4GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model KHX16C9X3/4 50$

ZOTAC ZT-60901-10M GeForce GTX 660 2GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card - Newegg.com 175$

CORSAIR CX500M 500W ATX12V v2.3 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply - Newegg.com 55$

and this comes at 490$ = ?300 ish, so you could buy a screen for it too.

EG this one
Asus VE248H Black 24" 2ms Full HD HDMI LED Backlight LCD Monitor w/Speakers 250 cd/m2 10,000,000:1 - Newegg.com 199$

which still saves you enough pounds to upgrade your ram to 8GB

Not to be arrogant, but nowadays you can find a lot of cool builds on Youtube and many other forums!
I filtered out the older results so you'll get only the freshest ones from less than one month ago or so.

I suggested this lot's of times by now on this forum.

The coolest things about Youtube-clips is that;
-you get to see how to put it together
-you get to see benchmarks
-there are many different possible builds to choose from

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... lclk=month

Also, nowadays you can build easily a gaming computer within the 400~800 dollars area that'll run most new games on high.

The only thing is, it's not as "future-proof" as a 1000 dollar rig would be. It'll be good for a year or two, eventual upgrades of the CPU or GPU for more frames/higher settings for ArmA 3

Pick Parts, Build Your PC, Compare and Share - PCPartPicker is a really solid website to find build logs.
They also have some basic price references for UK etailers.

Since I am not a super PC Builder.. I do know that NEWEGG has decent deals.


Also, I highly recommend buying from ibuypower, honestly. They have the best PC's that are prebuilt for you. (You pick the parts!)