Sub £300 Upgrade package

Hagar · 28 Jul 2017 at 10:40

I have selected the below to upgrade a friends machine, for office tasks, Sage accounting, Office and browsing. She uses windows 7 so Asrock is more OS friendly than ASUS in terms of drivers.

Needs to be under £300 budget for CPU, mobo, ram and GFX hence no frills.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x AMD Ryzen 3 Quad Core 1200 3.40GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £98.99
1 x Asrock AB350M-HDV AMD B350 (Socket AM4) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £67.99
1 x Palit GeForce GT 710 SILENT 2048MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £29.99
1 x Team Group Dark Pro 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Red (TDPRD48G3200= £79.99

Total: £287.46
(includes shipping: £10.50)

mickyflinn · 28 Jul 2017 at 11:03

Will this motherboard do ?

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Asrock A320M-DGS AMD A320 (Socket AM4) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £47.99

Hagar · 28 Jul 2017 at 11:06

mickyflinn said:
Will this motherboard do ?

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Asrock A320M-DGS AMD A320 (Socket AM4) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £47.99

I did look at the A320 chipset, I am sure that it probably would, I will investigate further, no overclocking on the A320 but that may not be an issue.

cheers, andy.

mickyflinn · 28 Jul 2017 at 11:28

Didnt think you would be overclocking an office pc, maybe consider an SSD for the build.

Hagar · 28 Jul 2017 at 11:37

mickyflinn said:
Didnt think you would be overclocking an office pc, maybe consider an SSD for the build.

I'm not really, its just the overclocker in me.

An SSD would be nice, I am going to look at the machine today to see if anything else is required. I built it a few years ago and cannot remember what I used then. Probably Athlon or Celeron with 1-2GB of DDR2. That sort of era.