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ive got that processor, it is great for the money but dont buy a cheap graphics card like i did or you will bottleneck (means your pc wont run at its best) it. A good gcard for that pc would be: depending on your price range, a ati hd 3870 or hd 4850 or hd 4870 (price goes up with the cards).

Not sure this is as cheap as you can do it but some pretty cheap/recommended combos:

Monitor: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/120308 (19″, I’m a fan off 22″ if you want to give her one that large just search the site)
Tower: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/164667
Graphics card: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/164593 (Not a fan of cheap graphics cards but yeah, a 4850 for 99.99)

Tower not with OS, bare in mind.

Total cost for tower/card is around £320. With the monitor is around or just short of £400

i’d recommend something arond these specs, it should be able to run TF2 quite comfortable

4gigs of cheap ass ram – 30 euro
ATI HD 4850 – like 100 to 120 euro
AMD Phenom II X3 710 – 110 euro or so
Gigabyte GA-M720-US3 – around 70 bucks

add a mouse, keyboard, monitor, mousemat and a tower (with in built power supply) to choice, and presto! a PC that should be able to run TF2 at atleast 80 FPS stable if not 120 stable
total cost: somewhere around 500 bucks

edit: made a small mistake, changed the motherboard

500 bucks just for tf2 is quite a lot :>

just buy an E7200 for about 100€ and overclock it. :)

500 bucks just for tf2 is quite a lot :>

just buy an E7200 for about 100€ and overclock it. :)

an E7200 is 10 bucks cheaper then what i posted, such a big diffrence it aint making

its not 500 bucks for just TF2, its 500 bucks for a compleatly new PC that can run TF2 properly

now, if tapley would have some old spare parts, you can make it cheaper, if not, i think 500 bucks is quite a decent price.

i think an E5300 won’t really run TF2 comfortably

tbh i would go for this > http://www.golem.de/0411/34680-dreampc_disneypc.jpg