CPU Mobo and RAM £200 Budget

[akzy]

Hey guys and gals,

Last year me and a few friends rescued my friends ancient laptop and built him a decent-ish computer from spare parts that we had. He was using my old Q6600, some gigabyte mobo and 8GB of DDR2 ram which earlier this morning passed away . Naturally, he needs these replaced and has £200 budget for those three things. He said he's happy with anything of similar performance (which i'm sure you could easily do for under £200). Any suggestions? - I was thinking along the AMD APU lines.

tl;dr
CPU-MOBO-RAM-£200-TALK TO ME

 

[Feronix]

What about a Haswell i3 (HD 4400, Hyperthreading and all that) with a 2x4GB 1600MHz RAM kit and some cheap (the best he can afford) motherboard?

Should be able to get that with this budget.

 

[barnsley]

Oki dokey Does he have a gpu? if so.
AMD build (better for newer games, especially BF4)
It'll need a new cpu cooler eventually. The motherboard isn't ideal but its actually fine for the 8320, it can even support slight overclocks.

CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor (£104.72 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£53.95 @ CCL Computers)
Memory: Corsair XMS 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£51.99 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £210.66

Intel option (stronger single cores and better for older games, also better for Computational stuff). It'll do for a few years.
CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£130.79 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H81M-S2PV Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£38.93 @ CCL Computers)
Memory: Mushkin Essentials 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory (£49.87 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £219.59

 

[akzy]

Thanks for the suggestions guys. I think i'll be looking along your lines barnsley, but i think maybe the FX-6000 series might be able to save him a few quid. It was more £200 at the absolute max sort of thing.

 

[Feronix]

Thanks for the suggestions guys. I think i'll be looking along your lines barnsley, but i think maybe the FX-6000 series might be able to save him a few quid. It was more £200 at the absolute max sort of thing.

At least make it an FX-6350 then

 

[tinytomlogan]

You could probably get some used Z87 or even Z77 bits with a used i7 CPU for that kind of money and blow all of the above out of the water

 

[akzy]

Checked out some 2700's on ebay bit expensive, but the 2500k look like they might be in budget. I'm always a bit concerned buying computer bits used, you lose warranty and who knows what they've done to it...

 

[Feronix]

Also; just checked (on a Dutch site so prices may vary) but this should be within the budget:

- i5 4440/4430
- Gigabyte H81M-H
- Crucial BallistX 2x4GB 1600MHz (BLS2CP4G3D1609DS1S00CEU)

 

[akzy]

Just spoke to him, he can afford the £210 AMD suggestion off barnsley.

 

[barnsley]

Just spoke to him, he can afford the £210 AMD suggestion off barnsley.

I had/have an 8320 and 8gb of ram and its actually very good for games unless you play DayZ.

 

[akzy]

I had/have an 8320 and 8gb of ram and its actually very good for games unless you play DayZ.

Nothing runs DayZ

 

[QuietOne]

My Galaxy S4 runs DayZ