Buying for a friend. Please Help.

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Lemonade1947

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Budget: "I have 265 pounds along with 100 dollars"

At current exchange he has £325

He wants microATX but isn't really in a position to be fussy about particular cases. if possible, he chose this case. He's absolutely fine with B-Grade stuff.
He wants an AMD A10-6800K Black Edition, the same as me.

also, this is awkward and all, but OCuk doesn't stock the corsair 430w any more, and its quite cheap on [filthy competitor] I don't know if I'm allowed to write the price of it on here.

If I absolutely have too ill lend him £10 or w/e but as close to budget as possible is preferred.

thanks.
 
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I think this is quite a struggle for £325 to be honest. Especially if you want to spend over £50 on the case. By picking a cheaper case this is about the best I can do.

The only place you could really save money is on the motherboard, I've basically picked the cheapest RAM, PSU, and Case there is from their respective categories. Even with the motherboard though you could only save about £20 and it seems daft to drop from the A88 chipset to the A55 for a £20 saving.

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A10-6800K Black Edition 4.10GHz (Socket FM2) APU Richland Quad Core Processor (AD680KWOHLBOX) £109.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan GOLD 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLYD38G2400HC11CDC01) £65.99
1 x Asus A88XM-A AMD A88X Chipset (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £55.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £47.99
1 x Aerocool Qs-200 Lite Midi Tower Case - Black £34.99
1 x SuperFlower Amazon 300W "80 Plus Bronze" Power Supply - Blue LED £26.99
Total : £351.54 (includes shipping : £8.00).




Found a cheaper PSU so done a quick edit.
 
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He's not gonna appreciate that mobo/ chipset. He probably doesn't even know what overclocking means (I realise there are other advantages, although i don't know what they are). he could probably live with 4gb of ram too. TBH you've been quite generous.
 
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Heres another one with the motherboard dropped to the very cheapest there is.

I wouldnt reccomend dropping the RAM, remember on APU's it's used as graphics memory as well as system memory. Even if 4GB is enough you can't get 2400mhz sticks in a 2GB size anywhere I can see and the speed of the RAM makes a massive difference with an APU.

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A10-6800K Black Edition 4.10GHz (Socket FM2) APU Richland Quad Core Processor (AD680KWOHLBOX) £109.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan GOLD 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLYD38G2400HC11CDC01) £65.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £47.99
1 x Asus A55BM-E AMD A55 Chipset (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £37.99
1 x Aerocool Qs-200 Lite Midi Tower Case - Black £34.99
1 x SuperFlower Amazon 300W "80 Plus Bronze" Power Supply - Blue LED £26.99
Total : £333.54 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 
 
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Was doing a basket for you as well, and I see it's come out much like BinnsY's. Checked the "B" Grade stuff but didn't find anything worth it for this build. Wouldn't save a lot of money, so best to get all the stuff new.

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A10-6800K Black Edition 4.10GHz (Socket FM2) APU Richland Quad Core Processor (AD680KWOHLBOX) £109.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan GOLD 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLYD38G2400HC11CDC01) £65.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A88XM-HD3 AMD A88X (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £52.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £47.99
1 x SuperFlower Amazon 300W "80 Plus Bronze" Power Supply - Blue LED £26.99
1 x Aerocool V3X Evil Black Edition Midi-Tower - Black/Orange £25.99
Total : £339.54 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 
Danny75 said:
Was doing a basket for you as well, and I see it's come out much like BinnsY's. Checked the "B" Grade stuff but didn't find anything worth it for this build. Wouldn't save a lot of money, so best to get all the stuff new.
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Nice find on that case though. If you combine our two builds using your case and my motherboard you actually end up right on budget.

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A10-6800K Black Edition 4.10GHz (Socket FM2) APU Richland Quad Core Processor (AD680KWOHLBOX) £109.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan GOLD 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLYD38G2400HC11CDC01) £65.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £47.99
1 x Asus A55BM-E AMD A55 Chipset (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £37.99
1 x SuperFlower Amazon 300W "80 Plus Bronze" Power Supply - Blue LED £26.99
1 x Aerocool V3X Evil Black Edition Midi-Tower - Black/Orange £25.99
Total : £324.54 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 
Thanks everyone, i appreciate all your help!

(if anyone's interested the build some of you helped me with before christmas is sitting on my shelve waiting for ram and a PSU. Merry Christmas to all of you)
 
mickyflinn said:
The power supply with the case should be Adequate and also need a dvd drive.

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A10-6800K Black Edition 4.10GHz (Socket FM2) APU Richland Quad Core Processor (AD680KWOHLBOX) £109.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan GOLD 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLYD38G2400HC11CDC01) £65.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £47.99
1 x Asus A55BM-E AMD A55 Chipset (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £37.99
1 x Imp MicroATX Tower Case (500w PSU) £31.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £11.99
Total : £319.44 (includes shipping : £11.25).

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Will that mobo fit in that case. it looks like it will, but doesn't say that its mATX
 
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