Cheap rig (around £350)

[sniffy]

Hey,

I've chosen the following components for my Dad:

Intel Core i3-2120 3.30GHz - £99.95

Sapphire HD 6570 Ultimate Edition 1024MB - £53.99

Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB - £49.99

Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 - £45.95

XFX Pro 450W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - £39.95

Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 4GB - £35.99

Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - £32.99

Total: £358.80

Can anyone make any improvements to that? Could stretch to £400 if it's good bang for buck. I've stayed away from APUs as might improve graphics card as some later point. By the way is it still common for them to ship some thermal paste with a CPU?

Thanks for any suggestions.

 

[snips86x]

For that price, I would look at Richland. AMD's APU.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus HD 7750 V2 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics card £79.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-21300C11 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXD38G2666HC11CDC01) £65.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A85XM-D3H AMD A85X Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 micro ATX Motherboard £61.99
1 x AMD A6-6400K 3.90GHz (Socket FM2) APU Richland Dual Core Processor (AD640KOKHLBOX) £59.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) HDD £39.95
1 x XFX Pro 450W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £39.95
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £32.99
Total : £394.94 (includes shipping : £11.75).

 

[sniffy]

Well I'd really like to keep the option open for making it a nice gaming rig in the future as my little bro will be using it. Just trying to keep the initial cost down.

 

[snips86x]

It will be a gaming rig as the AMD APU is a great little chip for the price. You can hybrid-crossfire the APU & 7750 on a budget.

It may be worth seeing what you can get from the MM as a 560/660 may go cheap and yield better results than the 6570.

 

[Idleman]

Cpu http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18528636

Z68 http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18528701