I'd advise getting a pc built around AMD components. they seem to do worse performance-wise than intel/nvidia in the higher echelons but do offer a value for money which beats Intel/nvidia on the non-gaming and budget setup hands down..

Ask the kind people of http://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc, I was looking to buy a new pc about a month ago, and I registered on reddit after my housemate advised me to ask there, and within an hour I had a few people giving me advice which ended up affecting which particular components I purchased, in a positive way.

I'd advise to get a 4gig of ram (leaving you with about £270), but can't really advise on particular models as I don't know much about which AMD product would be optimal for this sort of thing.

interesting, for about £270 could go for an AMD A10-6800K and use the built in GPU to crossfire with a cheap AMD 7750 to get quite good preformance

whaat, 2500k+7950 OC = win

you want to spend 90% of your budget on the CPU? wtfudge

your dumb!

£270 cpu/mobo/ram and a 7750 in crossfire, but can get micro stuttering and shit

you still wont kill me with flag

Look for a second hand i5 bundle on ebay, I would not buy AMD unless you only intend on playing old games which might be the case ESP if you're talking about built in graphics.

Those i5's are still next gen and clock so well.

No brainer.

ebay is your friend, especially in summer for computer hardware

My last upgrade costed me like 350€ but without a GFX-Card.

Intel Core i5 3570
Asus P8Z68-V/Gen3
8GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3-1333 RAM

Now I will get myself the GeForce GTX 650Ti for something like 130-150€. If we count that together we get something between 480 and 500 Euro, which converted to £ is something like 408 to 425. But if you go with AMD you probably will save like 40%.