£500 budget advice please

[SamuearlJackson]

Hi all,

My old Grand Prix Legends gaming PC is thoroughly ancient now and has been due an upgrade for the last five or six years. I'd appreciate some specs for a relatively low budget gaming PC. I already have:
DVD drive
SSD drive
Windows 7
Keyboard & mouse

£500 for the rest (not including the monitor as I will budget for that separately).

Cheers,
Sam

 

[virdee2]

what kind of games do you play mate? would you plan to overclock the cpu?

 

[joelk2]

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM £167.99
1 x HIS HD 7850 IceQ X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H785QN2G2M) £119.99
1 x ASRock Z77 Pro4-M Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £77.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £55.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020046-UK) £39.95
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler £26.99
Total : £521.88 (includes shipping : FREE).

 

[virdee2]

YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS HD 7850 IceQ X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H785QN2G2M) £119.99
1 x Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £80.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-4 Quad Core 4300 3.80GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £79.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £55.99
1 x Akasa Venom 550w Modular '80 Plus' Power Supply £53.99
1 x BitFenix Shinobi USB3.0 Gaming Case - Black £49.99
Total : £455.04 (includes shipping : £11.75).



You have a little spare cash in there to get a cpu cooler if you wanna try and overclock the cpu later too.

 

[SamuearlJackson]

what kind of games do you play mate? would you plan to overclock the cpu?

I'm happy to overclock. I need to update my games collection... FPS, racing games and real time strategy are my cup of tea though.

 

[stulid]

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £179.99
1 x HIS HD 7850 IceQ X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H785QN2G2M) £119.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87-HD3 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £89.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £55.99
1 x Antec VP450P 450W '80 Plus' Continuous Power Supply £39.95
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £32.99
Total : £532.99 (includes shipping : £11.75).




£518 with free delivery which you get.

 

[virdee2]

clearly Stulid knows what he is doing lol great rig for the price!

 

[joelk2]

although if you wanna overclock you'll need to get an aftermarket cooler.

 

[shadow_boxer]

...snip

Excellent build. Will be massive boost in performance by the sounds of it from your current rig op.

 

[stulid]

although if you wanna overclock you'll need to get an aftermarket cooler.

Taking this in to consideration,


YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £179.99
1 x HIS HD 7850 IceQ X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H785QN2G2M) £119.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87-D3HP Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £106.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £55.99
1 x Antec VP450P 450W '80 Plus' Continuous Power Supply £39.95
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £32.99
Total : £550.00 (includes shipping : £11.75).



£535 with free delivery.

The D3HP board is being supplied with a,

FREE Prolimatech Panther CPU Cooler with every board purchased!!

And you are gaining a better board over the HD3.

 

[joelk2]

Taking this in to consideration,

really could do with a z87 MATX board with a free cooler

 

[SamuearlJackson]

Thanks for the suggestions - very much appreciated.