Upgrade for £400

Ysmalari

Ysmalari

Ysmalari

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Morning all,
Sorry for yet another 'spec me a pc' kinda thread, but my brother is looking to upgrade his aging pc so I thought it best to seek your learned advice before telling him what to get.

His budget is up to £400 and for that he needs to get:
CPU (plus cooler)
Motherboard (may need 1 legacy PCI slot)
Memory (ideally 8gb)
GPU
PSU
Case

He doesn't need hard-drives, dvd-drive or monitor and will be running Win7.

He's not really into the gaming scene at the moment (his 2 year old has put pay to that) so the GPU doesn't need to be able to cope with new high-end games, just older ones which he dips in and out of.

My main query is on the CPU, AMD is obviously much cheaper at the moment but is it worth it or is the extra for Intel worth more in the long run. I'm thinking 4 cores would be a good idea.

Cheers for any advice :)
 
I'd go for this, with a few tweaks like getting 4gb ram, maybe cheaper cooler etc you can even fit a 120gb ssd in there too.

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Cheers guys I thought the AMD was an option but wasn't sure if the lower price was just false economy.

Good looking spec there danewesley (apart from maybe the colour of that case ;)) and good shout on the SSD possibility.
 
Whats his current spec. The problem with AMD Trinity is that in another couple of years your brother is going to be in the same situation he currently finds himself. i.e. where it's just not upto playing the latest games even with massively reduced settings or lower resolution.
 
That my only concern with AMD, but it's a bit of a rock and hard place situation as his current spec is pretty much obsolete - second gen dual core, DDR2, GTS 250 (which is on it's last legs) and a knackered case.
 
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