low budget pc build

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My Nephew wants a PC for christmas so I thought I would ask here for advice for a ideas on what to get him. I have a spair graphics card so all he needs is a mobo, cpu, ram and HD. Price is £300-£400
 
Best bet is to ask nearer the time, as prices change all the time and Intel's new range will be out and the odd occasion there have been special offers on motherboards.
 
If that's the case then I would probably:

Month 1: Case (not going to change too much in price between now and Christmas)
Month 2: PSU (Again pretty similar)
Month 3: RAM (8GB 1600mhz, should be fine)
Month 4: GPU (All of the new GPU's should be out by this time so the prices should be reasonable stable until Christmas)
Month 5: CPU (most of the new CPU's should be out by this stage, and the prices should have settled)
Month 6: Motherboard buying this last will ensure maximum compatibility with the previously purchased components.
 
I'd go,
Month 4: Motherboard (sky lake should be out and can decide if you want that or Haswell)
Month 5: CPU (depending on budget obviously)
Month 6: GFX card. The prices changes are biggest within these and usually the longer the wait the cheaper.
 
 
My old Graphics card is a Saphire Radeon HD 6950 I think. I cant remember now but pretty sure thats it. Also would that CPU run games ok? or would it be worth spending extra on an i5
 
KDK said:
My old Graphics card is a Saphire Radeon HD 6950 I think. I cant remember now but pretty sure thats it. Also would that CPU run games ok? or would it be worth spending extra on an i5
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Some, but not many.
I would spec up what you can afford each month and see where it goes.

I definitely think that the best things to buy early are the parts which won't shift much in price (Case / PSU etc.)
 
KDK said:
My old Graphics card is a Saphire Radeon HD 6950 I think. I cant remember now but pretty sure thats it. Also would that CPU run games ok? or would it be worth spending extra on an i5
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Could get away with an i3, will have better performance overall than the G3258. The latter can be overclocked though to match performance of an i3, in single threaded apps of course. You can watch videos of it performing the same in games such as BF4.
 
For that budget I definitely recon the G3258 is the way to go, it can easily overclock to 4.0GHz+. But yeah as the others said - good order would be starting with Case, PSU,etc. before components like the CPU and stuff. Especially if you're getting an SSD - those shoot down in price constantly. £89.99 seems a lot for a 250GB SSD as well, by the way.
 
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