I was thinking of HD7770 and phenom II 965 any ideas?
you wont get those in for 400, do you have any spare parts you could use? HDDs ect?
Comes to just under 400 euros, I didn't take price differences into account though.
https://pcpartpicker.com/p/HxuC
dude 591 dollers is like 450 euro plus shipping from us would be a hella lot, id use pc part picker uk
He will be buying from retail stores here, I built him something like this for 370 euros
HD7770 Gigabyte OC
AMD phenom 955 Black
MB AM3+ 970 Gigabyte GA-970A-D3
4gb of DDR3 Ram kingston CL9 @ 1600mhz (he can put more later if he wants its a 1 stick)
500GB HDD
some case for 20 euros
and a raidmax 500w PSU Black stone, this is the only part of the build I'm not 100% sure and there are no corsair or antec PSU's in my country
i wouldn't get a raidmax psu if you can help it, if it goes it could take the whole system with it, what PSUs are available to you?
Less than 400 euros ...
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/H2Nk
XFX power supplies are manufactured by Seasonic, don't get any better.
In his price range there are some chieftec and lc psus, but lc sucks and this raidmax psu has a longer warranty than the chieftec