Budget upgrade advice please

bobbyspangles · 27 Sep 2014 at 14:18

My parents PC is in need of an upgrade. Ideally would like to shrink it down to a mini ITX case as well as it's taking up too much space as is.

Budget as close to £250 will be ideal.

Current build:
Intel E8400
MSI P35-Neo motherboard
4GB (2x2GB) DDR2
ATI HD6670 (new)
500GB HDD (really needs replacing as it's 10 years old)
Corsair CX430 (new)

So far I've got:
Intel i3-4330 £95
Asus H81L-Plus motherboard £59
Corsair 4GB 2x2GB DDR3 RAM ~£40 (do I want 1333 or 1600 :confused:

)
WD Caviar Blue 500GB £40
Lian-li Q-01B case £48
Total: £282, £30 over budget.

RJC · 27 Sep 2014 at 14:21

What do your parents use the pc for?

bobbyspangles · 27 Sep 2014 at 14:23

Just browsing really. My brother will sometimes use it for Warcraft but thats about it.

It's likely to have to go another 5 years+ before it gets another upgrade though.

RJC · 27 Sep 2014 at 14:25

Your current pc would be fine, get a small SSD for Windows and a new Hard drive for documents and that system will be fine, only downsides would be the size of the system.

Edit:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Pentium G3430 3.30GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £65.99
1 x Asus H81I-Plus Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard £58.99
1 x Cooler Master Elite 130 Mini ITX Case - Black £45.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £39.95
2 x TeamGroup Elite 2GB (1x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Single Channel Module (TED32GM1600C1101) £16.99 (£33.98)
Total : £254.46 (includes shipping : £8.00).

bobbyspangles · 27 Sep 2014 at 14:37

You're probably right. The PC seems very slow lately but it could be because it's full of junk. The size could still be a problem though as they keep talking about replacing it with a cheap laptop to save space. I doubt I would find a socket 775 mini ITX? I have a redundent AMD X3 450 if that's any better?

bobbyspangles · 27 Sep 2014 at 14:46

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Pentium G3430 3.30GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £65.99
1 x Asus H81I-Plus Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard £58.99
1 x Cooler Master Elite 130 Mini ITX Case - Black £45.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £39.95
2 x TeamGroup Elite 2GB (1x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Single Channel Module (TED32GM1600C1101) £16.99 (£33.98)
Total : £254.46 (includes shipping : £8.00).

That looks good. I take it the G3430 would still be a good step up from the E8400? I have two sticks of 2GB DDR3 10666 already which if they will work would save a bit too.