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Back in 2004 (can't believe it's soooo long ago) I was looking to upgrade a PC I had built in 2000 ish and needed some help. Anyway after some fantastic help from people on here I built this:

AMD Athlon "Barton" XP 2500+ 333FSB (Socket A) CPU
DFI NFII Ultra Infinity (Socket A) motherboard
TwinMOS 512MB (2x256MB) DDR PC3200 Dual Channel Kit
Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu Ultra Quite CPU cooler
Zalman ZM400A-APF 400W PSU

I got overclocking info from members on here and have been running this system well overclocked ever since.

Now I don't really use the PC as i have a Shuttle (from Overclockers) as my daily use pc however i am looking to upgrade the old PC to run games for the kids and myself.

I am not looking for state of the art (kids are only little) just something stable and cheap. Must be able to run windows 7 64 bit.

I have two Hitatchi SATA hard disks so they should be ok and the case is still good.

Any suggestions would be very welcomed.
 
dare i say as little as possible ;) in reality probably a couple of hundred for the kids PC but if there are better options could go more a use it for storing and editing my photos
 
AMD A6-5400K Black Edition 3.60GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Dual Core Processor (AD540KOKHJBOX)£55.99
(£46.66)
ASRock FM2A55M-DGS AMD A55 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard£41.99
(£34.99)
TeamGroup Elite 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED34096M1600HC11DC) £29.99
(£24.99)
Sub Total : £106.64
Shipping cost based on delivery to paypal address, BN2 5LR with:
FREE SHIPPING (DPD Next Day)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : FREE
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £21.33
Total : £127.97

That would be bare minimum, the built in GPU is fairly capable but certainly not fast. If you had about £200 I'd probably get an Intel build with a dedicated GPU.

YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS HD 7750 iCooler 2048MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H775FS2G) £71.99
1 x Intel Pentium G640 2.80GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £52.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CML8GX3M2A1600C9) £41.99
1 x MSI H61M-P31-G3 Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £35.99
Total : £202.96 (includes shipping : FREE).

 
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For £200 that Intel build doesn't look bad..

The 7750 is a vast improvement on the A10's built in graphics..

The Pentium is a great little chip too..

That'd be my shout.
 
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