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Hey, so i'm asking for advice on a low end bundle (I haven't been paying attention much to the low end stuff even though most of my builds are around that 
)
One of my family pc's is going funny/locking up/overheating (on stock and plenty of airflow)/powering off randomly and we are looking to replace it for around £250. I have an SSD to shove in it, and the 500GB hard drive works fine. I also added a new PSU recently, and we are sharing an external ODD, so all that is needed is a case, motherboard, memory and cpu. I ordered a fractal core 1000 as it is a good case for the price (£25 new) and i have done a previous build in it, so the motherboard needs to be micro-atx.
I also don't want to add extra unnecesarry components, so everything should be onboard (audio, graphics etc..)
I have come up with
Intel Core i3-3225 3.30GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (55W) - Retail **High Performance IGP**
MSI H77MA-G43 Intel H77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Micro-ATX Motherboard
Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BLS2CP4G3D1609DS1S00CEU)
for £214 which i think is quite good, however i was wondering if it could be fine tuned by one of you lovely lot (maybe an AMD build for less, but i heard the APUs love fast RAM which is quite expensive.) I don't care about EXTREME graphics power on it, but the best onboard for the price would be nice.
£250 max. (if there is something much better performance that i am missing)
but ideally less than £214 if possible
Thanks,
) One of my family pc's is going funny/locking up/overheating (on stock and plenty of airflow)/powering off randomly and we are looking to replace it for around £250. I have an SSD to shove in it, and the 500GB hard drive works fine. I also added a new PSU recently, and we are sharing an external ODD, so all that is needed is a case, motherboard, memory and cpu. I ordered a fractal core 1000 as it is a good case for the price (£25 new) and i have done a previous build in it, so the motherboard needs to be micro-atx.
I also don't want to add extra unnecesarry components, so everything should be onboard (audio, graphics etc..)
I have come up with
Intel Core i3-3225 3.30GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (55W) - Retail **High Performance IGP**
MSI H77MA-G43 Intel H77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Micro-ATX Motherboard
Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BLS2CP4G3D1609DS1S00CEU)
for £214 which i think is quite good, however i was wondering if it could be fine tuned by one of you lovely lot (maybe an AMD build for less, but i heard the APUs love fast RAM which is quite expensive.) I don't care about EXTREME graphics power on it, but the best onboard for the price would be nice.
£250 max. (if there is something much better performance that i am missing)
but ideally less than £214 if possible
Thanks,
