Spec me Mobo, CPU and RAM! (Cheap as poss)

Gipo

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Well... after an eventful day, it appears I've fried my CPU - saw some scorch marks around the socket, and to the sides of the CPU its self.

It was a beautiful Phenom II X4 - didn't even overclock - a bit of an old motherboard so I'm probably due an upgrade anyway.

Previous setup: Phenom (3GHz), 4GB ram, some Gigabyte motherboard.

Would like to maybe try an Intel setup, but budget is limited.

What would you suggest - its all together with a radeon 5770 which seemed to play most things I threw at it on medium(ish) settings - latest game being Titanfall which played nicely.

I won't really overclock, so cheap as chips but relatively good performance is what I'm looking for (anything around the same as the old setup would be just fine).

Thanks!
 
Is your ram DDR 3?

Spec below :

Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Intel Core i5-4430 3.00GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £131.99
(£109.99) £131.99
(£109.99)
Gigabyte B85M-D3H Intel B85 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £56.99
(£47.49) £56.99
(£47.49)
TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLD38G2133HC11ADC01) £53.99
(£44.99) £53.99
(£44.99)
Sub Total : £202.47
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
UPS Access Point
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £8.00
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £42.09
Total : £252.56
 
My parts are rather old - still DDR2 for the ram!

Am guessing there is no chance to get anything semi decent for the £200 mark? :D
 
Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Intel Core i3-4130 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £82.99
(£69.16) £82.99
(£69.16)
Gigabyte B85M-D3H Intel B85 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £56.99
(£47.49) £56.99
(£47.49)
TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLD38G2133HC11ADC01) £53.99
(£44.99) £53.99
(£44.99)
Sub Total : £161.64
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
UPS Access Point
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £8.00
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £33.93
Total : £203.57
 
Gipo said:
My parts are rather old - still DDR2 for the ram!

Am guessing there is no chance to get anything semi decent for the £200 mark? :D
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Are all your hard drives and optical drives SATA? Also an AMD alternative if you don't mind going with them again:
YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £79.99
1 x Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £55.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan GOLD 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLYD38G1600HC9DC01) £49.99
Total : £195.58 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 
No optical drives to worry about - I have a 120gig SSD and a 1TB 'normal' SATA.

How comparable is the AMD to the Intel setup - would I really see any 'real world' (and I'm not talking about benchmarking etc) advantages going Intel?
 
Gipo said:
No optical drives to worry about - I have a 120gig SSD and a 1TB 'normal' SATA.

How comparable is the AMD to the Intel setup - would I really see any 'real world' (and I'm not talking about benchmarking etc) advantages going Intel?
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You could quite possibly see some difference going Intel, I know you said not benchmarking but at the bottom of this comparison there's some gaming benches where even a previous gen Intel CPU starts to pull ahead. It depends on if you feel it's enough of a difference to make it worth the extra £50.
 
Groovy!

Thanks everyone for the help - I think I will go the Intel route with the setups suggested - maybe even try and source some ram from MM to save a few more quid :D
 
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