Budget Upgrade for ~£120

AshenShugar1873 · 28 Jul 2013 at 20:44

Friend has an ancient PC that has failed and now needs an upgrade to play WOW. Needs a Motherboard, CPU and RAM for ~£120. Is that viable, if so, what should he be looking for component wise? I know this will be a false economy but £120 is his absolute limit and he is looking to order tomorrow (Monday 29th)

opstrat · 28 Jul 2013 at 20:55

that is a tight budget.

if his case can take it, i would look at a trinity build.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-333-AM
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-221-MS
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-033-TG

Idleman · 28 Jul 2013 at 21:01

AshenShugar1873 said:
Friend has an ancient PC that has failed and now needs an upgrade to play WOW. Needs a Motherboard, CPU and RAM for ~£120. Is that viable, if so, what should he be looking for component wise? I know this will be a false economy but £120 is his absolute limit and he is looking to order tomorrow (Monday 29th)

How ancient?
Can you post his full spec, including make and model of Psu. Also what case he has.

Potty27 · 28 Jul 2013 at 21:11

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A6-5400K Black Edition 3.60GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Dual Core Processor (AD540KOKHJBOX) £47.99
1 x MSI A55M-E33 AMD A55 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £38.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED34096M1600HC11DC) £28.79
Total : £125.66 (includes shipping : £8.25).

As you should get free P&P is should be £117.41

teppic · 28 Jul 2013 at 21:18

Does OCUK have the G2020? I can't see it. That, with a super cheap board would probably suit WoW better, assuming there's a working graphics card.

AshenShugar1873 · 30 Jul 2013 at 09:48

Thx for all the advice, in the end we went for the MSI A55M-E33, 4GB of TeamGroup RAM and upgraded to the AMD A8-5600K, which put us at £135 which was £15 over the strict budget. BUT, the A8 comes with a free copy of Sim City which another friend is happy to take off his hands for £15, getting us back within the spending limit with a nice quad core CPU!