Good Gaming PC £300 or more?

I'm not looking for anything 3D, but good gaming PC components that would have games on high/highest settings and last me a few years.
I will save more money for a higher budget if need be.
Any help will be greatly appreciated! :D

Depends on your definition of good, like what sort of games are you wanting to play on it?

Well i've been doing some thinking and i'm going to be saving up more than double the price im gonna use for buying a computer, i want to try and make it a little future proof so i wont need to upgrade it for a couple of years.

I'm doing exactly the same right now, and this is the approx build i'm going for (slowly!)

AMD FX-Series FX-8120 Black Edition Eight Core Processor (3.10 GHz, 16MB Cache, Socket AM3+, 125W, 3 Year Warranty, Retail Boxed)
Alpine 650W Quiet Silent PC Power Supply PSU 120mm Fan
ASUS AM3+ SABERTOOTH 990FX S/L
Thermaltake V3 Black Edition Chassis with Window/Blue LED Fan/Midi Tower
Corsair CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 8GB 1600MHz CL9 DDR3 Vengeance Memory Two Module Kit

... and a hard drive of course

Still have to make up my mind on a couple of these... hope this sort of helps though

I've recently bought this rig, it's sligthty more expensive than £600 (when you add windows and other bits):

[[ASIN:B005UBNKZG AMD FX-Series FX-8120 Black Edition Eight Core Processor (3.10 GHz, 16MB Cache, Socket AM3+, 125W, 3 Year Warranty, Retail Boxed

Asus M5A99X EVO AMD 990X ATX Motherboard (ASUS Dual Intelligent Processors 2 with DIGI+ VRM)

OCZ AGT3-25SAT3-120G Agility 3 120GB SATA III 2.5 inch SSD

Corsair CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9B 8GB 1600Mhz CL9 DDR3 Vengeance Memory Module Kit

Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATAIII 6Gb/s 16MB Cache 3.5 inch Internal Hard Drive OEM

[[ASIN:B0016ZOH7A CIT 650w Gold 12CM Silent Atx Power Supply

Asus 1GB Radeon HD 6850 DirectCU PCI-E 2

NEW! AeroCool Strike-X GT Mid ATX Desktop Tower Gaming PC Case Red

That PSU is garbage. Don't buy it.

Try this HDD
Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATAIII 6Gb/s 16MB Cache 3.5 inch Internal Hard Drive OEM

guys I would get rid of both of your motheboards because they are a bit expensive im running this one Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 Motherboard (Socket AM3+, Up to 16GB DDR3, USB 3.0, uATX) and its perfectly fine. I got fx8120 cpu too, its not bad at all, and cheap too. The motherboard that I sent the link too is the one I use, it's one of those smaller ones but it's perfectly fine to use, and cheap too (about 50£)

Too late! but thanks for the advice

Thanks for the feedback guys :)

Hi Alexander,as one Scot to anither hae yi bilt it yet and whit did yi ging fir.I built one in Feb this year and it can prove daunting picking out all the components.Went for a InWin Dragon Rider full tower,Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 Motherboard,Phenom 2 995 x4 Black Edition CPU,CoolerMaster 750W PSU(With a 5yr Warranty)2xZotac gts 550ti's(wish i'd went with the 560's)Register within 14days of purchase for more cover,SSD for the O/S,2X500Gb Sata's and 8gb corsair vengance 1600 memory,DVD ROM etc.will probably upgrade by the end of the year.Playing all the latest games, BF3 with high settings and decent frame rates.Hope your build was easy and your pleased with the outcome.All The Best.I have Gill's somewhere in my family.

Hey man :)
Thanks for your reply, i havn't built it yet but i was thinking of going with:
Intel Core i7 3770K 3.5GHz Socket 1155 8MB Cache Retail Boxed Processor
Asus Maximus IV Extreme R3.0 P67 Socket 1155 8 Channel Audio EATX Motherboard
NZXT Phantom Black Full Tower Case
OCZ 1000W Fatal1ty Series PSU
Gigabyte GTX 680 2GB GDDR5 Dual DVI HDMI DisplayPort PCI-E Graphics Card
Cisco Linksys Wireless-N Dual-Band PCI Adapter
As you can see, it has far gone past £300 and hitting around £1000+ haha :)
Lol, what a weird coincidence you have Gills in your family :s

Lookin good,It'll be a better machine than mine,just make sure everything is compatible.If it's your first build take your time and read the manual.You can always go online for help.Plenty of it out there and plenty of good guys who can assist.TechSupport and TomsHardware,just join up and they'll keep you right.I've always built the budget way but have always used brand named commponents. I did look at that tower and the Aerocool XPredator Evil but went for the InWin.Anyways best of luck when you do start,All the Best

Oh and youtube always helps, for my first build I always had little problems that I could not always explain on a forum.

I have heard of TomsHardware, a friend of mines on Steam recommended them to me :)
Hopefully i wont need any help and just build this sucker like a boss, as long as i stick to the manuals ofcourse :o