~£300 PC

LukieBoy007

LukieBoy007

LukieBoy007

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Hi,
A friend wishes to get a gaming PC and already has a 280x. With roughly £300 to spend on the rest (just the tower itself) what would you recommend? I had a i3, H81 Chipset motherboard and 8GB of RAM in mind.
Thanks! :)
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i3-4170 3.70GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £104.99
1 x Crucial BX100 250GB SSD SATA 6Gbps 7mm Solid State Drive (CT250BX100SSD1) £79.99
1 x SuperFlower FX 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - Black £42.95
1 x Asus H81M-PLUS Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £41.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TPKD38G1600HC11DC01) £35.99
1 x Cougar MX200 Midi-Tower Gaming Case - Black £19.99
Total : £335.50 (includes shipping : £8.00 Ex.VAT).




Just stuck a cheap case with two fans in there to keep cost down. Think any 280X will fit as long as you don't place a HDD right next to it, although best to ask OcUK to confirm.

Can go for a mechanical drive in place of the SSD but it's better to spend a little extra and start off with an SSD.
 
He'll need the space so I think I'll go with a mechanical drive for now. Is that motherboard the best H81 you can get? Also, if he upgrades to a i5 'k' CPU in the future, will it allow overclocking? Many thanks!
 
LukieBoy007 said:
He'll need the space so I think I'll go with a mechanical drive for now. Is that motherboard the best H81 you can get? Also, if he upgrades to a i5 'k' CPU in the future, will it allow overclocking? Many thanks!
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That Asus and the Gigabytes (which are out of stock) have a good rep, at that price range. No point paying more money than that for H81, imo. I'd be looking at B85 if I could spend a bit extra or a cheap Z97.

Pretty much all non-Z boards (with the right BIOS) now allow a bit of basic overclocking and I know that Asus can O/C a Pentium-K, but if you wanted the entire repertoire of O/C settings then Z is what you need.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £61.99




Only £20 more, so if he's serious about adding an i5-K later then might as well. You could swap to faster RAM if you go with Z.
 
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