trying to find a motherboard and cpu to go with this graphics card?

truewraith

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hi,

trying to find intel cpu,motherboard,memory for my bro please if anyone would help me? we have a budget of £300 but the lower the better if possible.

we already have

550psu
keyboard
mouse
speakers
win7-64bt
Cooler Master K-Series K380 USB3.0 ATX
Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 580 4GB NITRO+ Graphics Card

thanks
 
thanks very much for that, thats a good setup and yeah i thought about ryzen before but when i mention gaming most always aim me to intel..

so if i drop it i3 8100 i could save £50!
 
Danny75 said:
This purely depends on budget now, so with respect it's out-of-date or a bit lazy advice. In mid-to-high range, yes, Intel will get you more frames, particularly at 1080p resolution, at higher resolutions the difference decreases to practically nothing. In low-to-mid range, AMD is better or equal to Intel gaming options and more 'futureproof'. Quad-core Intel (e.g. i3-8350K) should be out of the question now unless playing older games. i5-8400 will do okay but does not have the advantage in games that utilize a lot of cores/threads, and is less 'futureproof' than say an R5 2600. An i5-8400 will run into the same problem that i5-4xxx owners had - having to upgrade sooner than owners of i7-4xxx. And then you're stuck with a budget motherboard that can't really handle a more powerful chip or overclock. For that budget, mobo + RAM + CPU required, AMD is definitely the better option.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £311.47 (includes shipping: £10.50)
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Search youtube for your brother's fave games and benchmarks comparing the processors that are an option (I'd narrow them down to two - i5-8400 or Ryzen 2600).
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i looked at some vids on tube and based on the games he plays which is very similar to me with gta5 and ark sometimes i think we will be going with this lot,
i do want to thank you both for the help and info its greatly appreciated :)
 
truewraith said:
i looked at some vids on tube and based on the games he plays which is very similar to me with gta5 and ark sometimes i think we will be going with this lot,
i do want to thank you both for the help and info its greatly appreciated :)
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do i need to buy a another cooler for the cpu?
 
thats great thank you.

i can buy a few of these for the tower now, Artic F12 Case Fan - 120mm.
they seam ok from what i read on the reviews :)
 
yeah kinda hit a bad time with this build, seeing as the tower might be a little old as the graphics card wont fit which i have never come across before till now :(

the case is Cooler Master K-Series K380 USB3.0 Side Window Case for ATX PC and the problem is in the picture if the link works

https://imgur.com/a/9fVKnwI

if anyone can think of anything i can do besides buying a new tower which would be last resort that would be awesome please?
 
one more issue, i got all setup and its running great but i used a ps/2 keyboard to setup win764b and now im at desktop my usb mouse/keyboard wont turn on at all only before windows logo then they go off! ive never seen this happen before do i need a windows fix or something? i have yet to instal board/graphics drivers which is really hard cos i only have a ps/2 keyboard and no mouse lol
 
LOL i cant even install the graphics drivers yet because they crash when the install window comes up. so i guess even tho its all compatible with windows 7 im going to have to get win10 for this machine :(
 
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