Spec my son a bundle please

[w3bbo]

So my lad wants to upgrade his now very aged PC (E6300, 2GB, Asus P5N). There's a 600w PSU a R7950 GPU and he games at 1080p. I'm thinking his best upgrade path is a new mobo, cpu and memory. He's not into overclocking (I've tried to educate him on this lol), he's purely a gamer and that's pretty much all he wants it for.

So he's after this upgrade for Xmas and I'll budget him circa £400 for for this. I was thinking along the lines of a an Asus 170 aura, i5 6500/6600 and 16gb of ram. Thoughts on this? Any better configurations?

 

[ExRayTed]

I'd not discount the i3 at this budget. Under-rated for games I think and does well at 1080p.

Take the RAM down to 8gb (it'll under-clock to 2133 with the motherboard though) and suddenly you can afford a new GPU too

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Intel Core i3-6100 3.70GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £115.99
• 1 x Team Group Elite 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C16 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (TPKD48GM2400HC16DC0= £41.99
• 1 x Gigabyte H110M-S2H Intel H110 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £49.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 Windforce OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-N1060WF2OC-3GD)= £189.95

Total: £408.42
(includes shipping: £10.50)
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If you could stretch the £400 a little bit more then 16gb is do-able.

 

[w3bbo]

Cheers for this. Its certainly a not a spec I'd considered.