b0dyr0ck2008 Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 Hi guys and girls, I'm looking for a little advice. I'll save you the background story but needless to say I wish to upgrade what I have and have a budget of £300 max. Based in the UK. MY current specs are: CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Motherboard: Gigabyte M68M-S2P Ram: DDR2 4GB - 2x 2GB Kingston PC2-5300 Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTS450 1GB PSU: Corsair TX 650w HDD: 2x 500GB Seagate SATA I'm running windows 7 64bit ultimate and would like to be able to play some of the newer games, which I'm finding my old CPU it's struggling to do. I also play with a bit of video editing and music creation and general basic coding etc. this is not just my gaming/work rig but also my HTPC so need it to run blu-ray smoothly and ideally optical audio to my receiver. So with a budget of £300 what would you do? I have been looking at two builds: AMD Bulldozer FX-8 Eight Core 8120@8150 Black Edition 3.60Ghz (Socket AM3+) Processor - **£20 Cashback** £134.99 Corsair CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 8GB 1600MHz CL9 DDR3 Vengeance Memory Two Module Kit £38.65 ASUS AM3+ SABERTOOTH 990FX S/L £121.97 TOTAL £295.61 OR 1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £179.99 1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £84.98 1 x OcUK Value 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit £26.99 Total : £303.36 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b0dyr0ck2008 Posted August 31, 2012 Author Share Posted August 31, 2012 So now a case of finding the deals. i5-3570K - Ebay - £156.99 Z77-D3H - Amazon - £79.06 GeIL Black Dragon 8GB - Overclockers - £31.19 TOTAL: £267.24 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 While you are upgrading, avoid AMD if you can. If you could at all shop around and afford to pay about £30 more, a core i7 would be much better. Example: http://www.amazon.co...2&condition=new Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b0dyr0ck2008 Posted September 15, 2012 Author Share Posted September 15, 2012 I went with the stuff in the previous post in the end. I didn't have osx in mind at the time but now I've got intel I decided to go ahead and install ML. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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