£300 for CPU, Mobo & Ram

Solarius

Solarius

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Hi Chaps,

Would someone please help me choose what CPU, Mobo and Ram to get for around £300 max please?

I have an good SSD, a decent 750w - 800w PSU etc and an old but reliable Radeon HD4890 which will still do for the moment.

Ideally I would like an i5, and possibly a 'k' series as overclocking would be great. I just have no idea what cheap board can be coupled with a 'k' series that will get a good amount out of it an what ram will get the most out of it all.

Any advice/time spend speccing a build up would be really appreciated.

Thanks,
Luke
 
Thank you for that stulid.

Do you have any suggestions as if its worth spending a little more etc? Are those Gigabyte D3H's the best board for the money?
 
Solarius said:
Thank you for that stulid.

Do you have any suggestions as if its worth spending a little more etc? Are those Gigabyte D3H's the best board for the money?
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The D3H is the best "budget" Z77 board available.

It's only good for single GFX setups as it runs the two 16X (physical length) slots at 16X/4X, so this means the second GFX card would get less bandwidth.

Better Z77 boards (£100+, unless there is another good Bgrade item available) will support both Crossfire and SLI, thats because they run both cards at 8X/8X and Nvidia will only certify SLI on 8X or greater slots.

But once you get into spending this sort of money then the Haswell i5 4670K and Gigabyte Z87-D3HP become options, but again the D3HP is best for single GFX card setups only.
 
Thanks for spending the time looking into it.

I do like the £307 spec option tbh, but then the modern tech of the 4670k is tempting. Do you think theres a big real world performance difference between the specs that justifys the extra £70 - 80..? Would you spend the extra?

I think i'll only ever have a single GPU anyway so the sli one is not an atraction.
 
Solarius said:
Thanks for spending the time looking into it.

I do like the £307 spec option tbh, but then the modern tech of the 4670k is tempting. Do you think theres a big real world performance difference between the specs that justifys the extra £70 - 80..? Would you spend the extra?

I think i'll only ever have a single GPU anyway so the sli one is not an atraction.
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Haswell is faster clock vs clock than Ivybridge, and you are getting newer tech thats less "out-dated".

But with Haswell you should also be considering faster RAM,

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The memory controller within Haswell is so much stronger than Ivybridge.

I have used the D3HP board many times in client builds and found it to be spot on - Z87-D3HP review

It's your money to spend, I cant decide for you.
 
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Solarius said:
I do like the £307 spec option tbh, but then the modern tech of the 4670k is tempting. Do you think theres a big real world performance difference between the specs that justifys the extra £70 - 80..? Would you spend the extra?
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I would stick to the budget I set myself probably, I doubt real world performance will be worth overspending.
 
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