£200 office PC upgrade

PiKe

PiKe

PiKe

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Looking to upgrade an office PC running a Q6600.

Does anyone have any recommendations on how best to spend £200 of parts? Obviously massive graphics cards are not necessary :)
 
Is the pc just used for Word and Excel or more demanding tasks?

But personally it would be a waste, the Q6600 is a good chip.
 
There's an underlying problem with the motherboard which is causing long pauses.
 
If you can stretch to £250 this would make a nice little bundle. Just add it to whatever case / PSU you already have and re-use any existing hard drives as storage drives.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i3-4130 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £83.99
1 x Toshiba SSD HDTS212EZSTA 9.5mm 128GB Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £65.99
1 x Avexir Core Red Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16000904G-2CIR) £49.99
1 x Asus H81M-A Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £44.99
Total : £254.56 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 
I'd probably spend the money on an SSD, and if the mobo is giving problems, look for a second hand one, loads about. Don't see the need buying a new cpu, the Q6600 is still a capable chip, since you're not doing anything that's gonna push its potential.

SSD and enjoy instant load times.
 
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