Help Upgrading PC

[Patrick2810]

Hi I will be recieving a pc from a friend soon (for free )

I will want to make this pc good for games so I will be upgrading it.
I have £170 to spend upgrading it so I may need to some help xD

Here's what I like:
AMD Phenom ii x4 965 £80
AMD Radeon 6670 £50-£55

I don't know what motherboard to get, or how much to spend on it :S

Any adivce?

Thanks so much.

 

[Patrick2810]

Whats the specs of the PC?

All I know is that it has a 1.6ghz Intel pentium CPU and 4gb ram. It probably has integrated graphics.

 

[Patrick2810]

Ok I've been looking around and I might have found a build that's good.

CPU AMD Athlon II x4 641 £60

GPU XFX AMD Radeon HD 6670 1GB DDR3 £50

Motherboard Gigabyte GA-A55M-DS2 AMD a55 £42

Power Supply NOVA-TECH 500W ATX £16

Total Price:
£168~
Thoughts?

 

[Patrick2810]

You're not supposed to post non OC sites.

Sorry. I've fixed it.

 

[Patrick2810]

What do you guys think of the specs I've suggested?

 

[Patrick2810]

No on that PSU! Never buy a cheap one if you have a dedicated graphics card!
At leats £50 is what you want to spend ideally. I would look at:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-167-CM

£50 is way over budget. Is there any cheaper solution to this problem?

Thanks for the help

 

[Patrick2810]

How is this for a PSU?
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-063-OC&tool=3

 

[Patrick2810]

That should do it but its still cheap in my opinion, like I say I would not pay less than £50 for 500W. A good 430/450W would be better like this:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-172-AN&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=

Since no offense but the PC you are being given is practically useless I would suggest putting aside some money and getting this:


YOUR BASKET
1 x **B Grade** MSI HD 6850 OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £83.99
1 x **B Grade** Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM £55
2 x Intel Pentium G840 2.80GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £54.95 (109.9)
1 x Gigabyte H61MA-D3V Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £47.99
1 x Antec VP450P 450W '80 Plus' Continuous Power Supply £37.98
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £34.99
1 x Adata XPG Gaming v1.0 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (AX3U1600GC2G9-2G) £23.99
Total : £407.93 (includes shipping : £11.75).

Thanks for doing me a build! I only need a CPU, GPU, PSU, and Motherboard though as I will have the case dvd drive, hard drive and ram. I will be selling this on after.
Also, would it be possible to get a cheaper GPU and motherboard?

 

[Patrick2810]

What's the best way to make the biggest profit on this?

 

[Patrick2810]

The old one, the plan is to upgrade it and sell it on.

 

[Patrick2810]

When I get the PC I will post the specs here and then hopefully we can come up with a plan

*thinking optimistically *

 

[Patrick2810]

I'm sorry but sounding like what your doing its a money making idea, and I like spending my time helping genuine people not wasting my time making other people money. So I am bugging out of this thread.

That's fine, thanks for your help so far

 

[Patrick2810]

My budget is now £216

 

[Patrick2810]

Looking at the rest of the thread it looks like you need a whole tower. Do you need a copy of Windows though? £216 is really pushing it.

I am still upgrading this.. and I won't need windows seven.
I need:
CPU
GPU
RAM
Motherboard
PSU

 

[Patrick2810]

Any idea if your case is mATX or ATX?

I'm not sure yet, sorry. Will update this thread when I get it.

 

[Patrick2810]

I'm afraid of the intel celeron £30 processor being bottlenecked by that 7750 D:
Also what's better the 6790 or 7750 ?

 

[Patrick2810]

Do you think I should wait til I get the pc to order anything?

 

[Patrick2810]

For free, i'm picking it up next week