See if you can get a 3+ GHz i5 , GTX 960 or better video card and at least 8 GB RAM. A 500W PSU should be able to run it all without any problems and some headroom to spare.
You should be able to get the CPU and video card for around £300, 16GB RAM for about £70, and I would be surprised if you couldn't find a reasonable motherboard for £100. a decent 500W PSU shouldn't have to cost much more than £60.
The only real thing you need to pay attention to for the motherboard is the CPU socket and RAM type. I used DDR3 RAM in my example here, but DDR4 is probably not a terrible idea nowadays. Not sure how much more that would cost, though. I doubt the DDR3 RAM in my system is the limiting factor, but I also only have a GTX 570.
Put in a 250GB SSD if you have money to spare. It doesn't directly affect game performance in most cases, but it will cut down on loading times a lot if you install the games there, and your other applications will load a lot faster.
Try pricespy.co.uk if you want to find good deals easily. I use the norwegian version of that site all the time. Works great for me.
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