Upgrading and some general questions.

Diriculous

Diriculous

Diriculous

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Hi guys,

My power supply recently died violently, taking with it my mobo and processor, so I need to upgrade.
What I'm looking for is a spec for a mobo, processor, RAM and a PSU with a budget of 200 quid. I'm really not looking for anything special, the hardest work this rig will be doing is playing Starcraft 2 at its lowest graphics settings.
I have no intention of attempting to upgrade this build in the future. I'm not even sure if this is doable with 200 pounds, but any attempt would be much appreciated :).

Here are where my other general questions come in. I wasn't able to find out if my HDD/GPU survived the blowout.
I'm wondering, if i were to get a new processor etc., would testing if my old GPU/HDD were working possibly cause some damage to the new pieces?

Thanks in advance for any answers!

Edit: I forgot my old dvd drive is IDE, so i guess i'll need one of those too, so maybe stretch the budget to 230 :P
 
AMD:



or Intel:



both have there merits but overall they're pretty similar, both excellent CPUs. As for the graphics card i don't see how it can hurt trying it with your new motherboard and cpu but you might want to wait for clarification on this.
 
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Thanks Bobby :).
That PSU is currently out of stock though.
Maybe this PSU would do:
Cooler Master Elite Power 500W Power Supply [RS500-PSARJ3-UK]?
If not i can just wait a few days.
Thanks again!
 
It's fine to test your old kit with the new stuff. If it's broke, it just wont work. It wont cause any harm at all. Obviously unless it's the PSU you planned on testing.

How do you know your Motherboard and CPU went with it? Did you test the CPU in another known working system?
 
Buchanan, i dropped my rig into a local pc repair shop. They said they'd take a look at the mobo/cpu for free but anything more would cost me. I couldn't afford to get the rest checked at the time. I won't be putting that old PSU near any of my new components :p. Thanks for the clarification.

Stulid, thanks for the warning, I was going to buy that build. I guess i'll go with the intel build.
 
The issue with that AMD build is that the motherboard supports 95W CPU's max, the 955BE is a 125W CPU.
 
Ah, i see. The product description on OCUK for that motherboard could use a little more detail. So if i wanted to go AMD would this be more appropriate?:
Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 AMD 760G (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard.
 
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Diriculous said:
Ah, i see. The product description on OCUK for that motherboard could use a little more detail. So if i wanted to go AMD would this be more appropriate?:
Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 AMD 760G (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard.
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Don't go down the AMD Phenom II X4 route over the Intel i3 2100, unless you have some weird fetish of liking lower frame rate in games, twice the power consumption at load (125W TDP vs i3 2100's 65W TDP) and higher temp (more waste heat generated due to the higher power consumption).
 
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