Which Board/CPU/Memory

wiggyuk · 13 Aug 2013 at 20:03

Hi all I was wondering if you could spec me a Board/CPU/Memory for a friend of mine, he has £180 to spend and he mainly uses he's PC for downloading & watching TV shows, Web Browsing, Music just general stuff like that.

He's been looking at a B Grade Intel Core i3 Asus 8GB Gaming Bundle which is Asus P8H61-MX R2.0, Crucial 8GB (2x4GB) Dual Channel Kit Ballistix Elite RAM & Intel Core i3 2100 which costs £129.99.

What you guys think ?

Potty27 · 13 Aug 2013 at 20:48

Bundle sounds good value for money to me anyway.

If that's all he does go with that and consider adding a SSD in my opinion.

Doomedspeed · 13 Aug 2013 at 21:57

wiggyuk said:
Hi all I was wondering if you could spec me a Board/CPU/Memory for a friend of mine, he has £180 to spend and he mainly uses he's PC for downloading & watching TV shows, Web Browsing, Music just general stuff like that.

He's been looking at a B Grade Intel Core i3 Asus 8GB Gaming Bundle which is Asus P8H61-MX R2.0, Crucial 8GB (2x4GB) Dual Channel Kit Ballistix Elite RAM & Intel Core i3 2100 which costs £129.99.

What you guys think ?

Does he have a GPU atall?

If he doesn't it may be better looking at the trinity APU range..

Those chips have really good on-board graphics which help with HD playback.

morton23 · 14 Aug 2013 at 03:16

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-227-OK

teppic · 14 Aug 2013 at 03:42

This would do the job. £164 with free shipping.

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A8-5600K Black Edition 3.60GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor **FREE SIMCITY PC GAME** (AD560KWOHJBOX) £71.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A85XM-D3H AMD A85X Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 micro ATX Motherboard £61.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED34GM1600HC11DC01) £29.99
Total : £174.77 (includes shipping : £9.00).

You could drop the CPU down to dual core to save a bit - £140 here:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte F2A85XM-D3H AMD A85X Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 micro ATX Motherboard £61.99
1 x AMD A6-5400K Black Edition 3.60GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Dual Core Processor (AD540KOKHJBOX) £47.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED34GM1600HC11DC01) £29.99
Total : £150.77 (includes shipping : £9.00).

It's more than the i3 2100 b grade bundle, but the GPU is more up to the job for video playback. I can't see the bundle on here, but that plus a cheap GPU would be a good option too.

Potty27 · 14 Aug 2013 at 03:42

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A8-5600K Black Edition 3.60GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor **FREE SIMCITY PC GAME** (AD560KWOHJBOX) £71.99
1 x ASRock FM2A75M-DGS AMD A75 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £52.99
1 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVI38G160C9K) £49.99
Total : £174.97 (includes shipping : FREE).

AMD APU Option.

wiggyuk · 14 Aug 2013 at 08:47

Cheers guys that gives me something to think about, he has case, HDD's and ATi radion.... Which board is better out of the above two listed

Doomedspeed · 14 Aug 2013 at 08:57

wiggyuk said:
Cheers guys that gives me something to think about, he has case, HDD's and ATi radion.... Which board is better out of the above two listed

Which GPU (ati radeon) does he have?

wiggyuk · 14 Aug 2013 at 14:05

He thinks it's a HD5450

teppic · 14 Aug 2013 at 14:11

A75 and A85x are both very decent modern boards, the latter is a little better but for a basic PC it's not important. You get more USB 3 ports, etc. I tend to favour Gigabyte for AMD builds, as well as the UK RMA.