Budget upgrade £300 - What would you do?

So this is they way to go then?

I know this has been advised at the beginning but its good to go through the motions.

Your basket
Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W)£179.99

Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £84.98

GeIL Black Dragon 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit £31.19


Total : £307.56 Including Delivery
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It will be a huge upgrade :)

Really is worthing getting an SSD next, the difference in performance compared to a hard drive is staggering.
 
b0dyr0ck2006 said:
Hi guys and girls, I'm looking for a little advice. I'll save you the background story but needless to say I wish to upgrade what I have and have a budget of £300 max. Based in the UK.

MY current specs are:

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+
Motherboard: Gigabyte M68M-S2P
Ram: DDR2 4GB - 2x 2GB Kingston PC2-5300
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTS450 1GB
PSU: Corsair TX 650w
HDD: 2x 500GB Seagate SATA

I'm running windows 7 64bit ultimate and would like to be able to play some of the newer games, which I'm finding my old CPU it's struggling to do. I also play with a bit of video editing and music creation and general basic coding etc. this is not just my gaming/work rig but also my HTPC so need it to run blu-ray smoothly and ideally optical audio to my receiver.

So with a budget of £300 what would you do?

Thanks
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It is a pity you said 300 max , the i5 or i7 would be better for the video editing.
I am getting an i7 myself for my new build because my brother does video editing.
 
That's the problem with kids, they eat all your spare cash!

So now a case of finding the deals.

i5-3570K - Someone else - £156.99

Z77-D3H - Someone else - £79.06

GeIL Black Dragon 8GB - Overclockers - £31.19

TOTAL: £267.24

If I can find another £35 saving I can get an SSD too.
 
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b0dyr0ck2006 said:
That's the problem with kids, they eat all your spare cash!

So now a case of finding the deals.

i5-3570K - :( - £174.94

Z77-D3H - :( - £79.06

GeIL Black Dragon 8GB - Overclockers - £31.19

TOTAL: £285.19

If I can find another £35 saving I can get an SSD too.
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Best remove the competitor links before a mod sees them. It`s against forum rules. Just a friendly warning.;)
 
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