What can you get for £300?

Radiation · 4 Sep 2011 at 18:02

Motherboard, ram, cpu and graphics card with the best performance and overclocking potential?

Gregry254 · 4 Sep 2011 at 18:14

A little over but what about something like this?

fowler002 · 4 Sep 2011 at 18:15

Gregry254 said:
A little over but what about something like this?

and you're cooling the cpu with?

Gregry254 · 4 Sep 2011 at 18:17

a paper fan

I didn't realise I selected the oem

let me try again lol

Sparx · 4 Sep 2011 at 18:17

I went a little over, it's the best I could do that was actual good value for money with decent products!

EDIT - If you really wanna lower the cost, you could swap the 6850 in my build below for that B-Grade GTX 460 and it would be £272.98!

or..

Reaper 392 · 4 Sep 2011 at 18:20

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i3-2100 3.10GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £94.99
1 x OcUK GeForce GTX 460 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card - OEM £94.99
1 x Asus P8P67 LE Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard ** B3 REVISION ** £74.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9AD3B1K2/4G) £23.99
Total : £288.96 (includes shipping: FREE).

no overclocking for this processor, but an i5 2500k or i7 2600k could be overclocked

or, if you forgo the option of overclocking in the future you could get this:
YOUR BASKET
1 x OcUK ATI Radeon HD 6870 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE Deus Ex PC Game £124.98
1 x Intel Core i3-2100 3.10GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £94.99
1 x MSI H67MA-E35 Intel H67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Micro-ATX Motherboard - (Sandybridge) **B3 REVISION** £64.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9AD3B1K2/4G) £23.99
Total : £308.95 (includes shipping : £9.50).

Gregry254 · 4 Sep 2011 at 18:23

My new attempt

fowler002 · 4 Sep 2011 at 18:25

Gregry254 said:
My new attempt

few £s extra gets you the ocuk 6870 for several more hours.

p.s. don't think you'll get ocing out of it, the op said best ocing potential

Reaper 392 · 4 Sep 2011 at 18:27

fowler002 said:
few £s extra gets you the ocuk 6870 for several more hours.

also, the kingston RAM in my spec is cheaper and performs the same.

Sparx · 4 Sep 2011 at 19:18

Gregry254 said:
My new attempt
IMAGE HERE

Get yourself another 20 posts and you get free next day shipping!!

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17943556

Randomface74 · 4 Sep 2011 at 19:31

Radiation said:
Motherboard, ram, cpu and graphics card with the best performance and overclocking potential?

I presume the usage is gaming? What games, resolution, quality, are you aiming for?

Gregry254 · 4 Sep 2011 at 19:54

Sparx said:
Get yourself another 20 posts and you get free next day shipping!!

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17943556

Yeah I seen this after I bought my new gaming setup

(I am not the OP in this thread lol)

Radiation · 4 Sep 2011 at 22:13

Thanks, looks like it's possible to get something fairly decent then?

billysielu said:
I presume the usage is gaming? What games, resolution, quality, are you aiming for?

Yeah, i would like graphics to be the best part, so im guessing a Radeon hd 6870 is most im going to get for the money, i think it will do for pretty much everything on high, especially considering i can already with a gtx 260 and core2 overclocked to 3.2GHz, we have consoles to thank for that, they've held back graphical progress somewhat for years now.

Randomface74 · 5 Sep 2011 at 08:00

I think if you want everything on high, lets say at 1920x1080, for example games coming out are BF3, Diablo3, etc... You'd want to go higher, say 570 or more, if you want a good life out of it.