Budget £350 or less build

jamoor · 20 May 2017 at 13:22

Looking to build a home pc for just browsing, youtube etc.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x AMD Kaveri A10-7860K 12 Compute Core APU w/ Radeon R7 Graphics (4 CPU + 8 GPU Compute Cores) - Reta= £89.99
1 x **B Grade** Asus PCE-N15 300Mbps 802.11B/G/N Wireless PCI-E Network Adapter= £8.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance Pro Silver 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (CMY8GX3M2= £65.99
1 x Corsair Carbide Series 88R Micro-ATX Case - Black (CC-9011086-WW)= £49.99

Total: £214.96
(includes shipping: £0.00)

Corsair CP-9020049-UK VS Series ATX/EPS 80 PLUS Power Supply Unit, 450 W
Asus A68HM-PLUS Motherboard (Socket FM2+, A68H, DDR3, S-ATA 600, Micro ATX, USB 3.0)

This stuff comes out at just under £300
Don't need a HDD as I have one already.

Anyone have any better ideas? I could go down the intel route, but I believe to get similar performance I would be spending a lot more?

stulid · 20 May 2017 at 13:29

APUs gfx performance relies upon fast RAM, there are many cheaper + faster RAM kits than that Corsair one.

jamoor · 20 May 2017 at 13:48

I guess this would be a good choice?
Corsair Vengeance Pro 8GB (2x 4GB) 2400MHz DDR3 or
HyperX Savage 8 GB (1 x 8 GB) 2400 MHz DDR3 CL11 DIMM XMP Memory Module - Red

stulid · 20 May 2017 at 13:50

The board specs say it can run 2400Mhz ram.

jamoor · 20 May 2017 at 18:05

I thought the ones i picked were 2400mhz ram, unless i'm mistaken?
Thanks,

ExoMale · 20 May 2017 at 18:12

You wouldn't need a 450w, any good 350w would do, you won't be pushing a dedicated graphics card so you can same a few quid on that. You can also buy wifi adapters new for a tenner so you don't even need a B grade item.

stulid · 20 May 2017 at 19:18

jamoor said:
I thought the ones i picked were 2400mhz ram, unless i'm mistaken?
Thanks,

They are and the board should work with XMP set.

jamoor · 20 May 2017 at 20:52

ExoMale said:
You wouldn't need a 450w, any good 350w would do, you won't be pushing a dedicated graphics card so you can same a few quid on that. You can also buy wifi adapters new for a tenner so you don't even need a B grade item.

I saw the difference between 350 to 450 is only a tenner so I'm not too fussed about that.
Thanks for the advice chaps!

ExoMale · 21 May 2017 at 00:53

jamoor said:
I saw the difference between 350 to 450 is only a tenner so I'm not too fussed about that.
Thanks for the advice chaps!

No that's fine, your money and tenner isn't a whole lot, just was pointing out as it's an APU, it would only draw whatever the cpu is rated at, like 150w for example plus the other parts, probably wouldn't draw more than 250w.