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George Kaze Jordan

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Mar 5, 2014
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4,510
Approximate Purchase Date: ASAP

Budget: £150-200

System Usage from Most to Least Important: streaming movies/TV, light gaming - portal 2 levels of power

Are you buying a monitor: No

Do you need to buy OS: No

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: amazon UK - but any where really.

I live in the UK

Overclocking: Maybe

Parts needed:
ATX Motherboard
CPU
GPU
4 GB RAM
PSU
Small ATX Case, no need for disk drive space at all.

And Most Importantly, Why Are You Upgrading: static killed the motherboard on my old PC.
 
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HiTechObsessed
Will be perfect for videos/TV, and integrated GPU is about the best you'll get. Low/Medium gaming at 1080p

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD A8-5600K 3.6GHz Quad-Core Processor (£63.47 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A55M-DS2 Micro ATX FM2 Motherboard (£35.78 @ CCL Computers)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Smart Tracer 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£29.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 320GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£18.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Zalman ZM-T1 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£19.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 450W 80+...
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HiTechObsessed

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Will be perfect for videos/TV, and integrated GPU is about the best you'll get. Low/Medium gaming at 1080p

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD A8-5600K 3.6GHz Quad-Core Processor (£63.47 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A55M-DS2 Micro ATX FM2 Motherboard (£35.78 @ CCL Computers)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Smart Tracer 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£29.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 320GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£18.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Zalman ZM-T1 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£19.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£34.14 @ Scan.co.uk)
Total: £202.36
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-03-05 20:26 GMT+0000)
 
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fatboyslimerr

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Do you need discrete graphics card (i.e. a seperate graphics card)? If not then an AMD APU such as the new Kaveri would be perfect for media centre plus some light gaming. Whats more you can always add an AMD discrete graphics card in later on and crossfire it with your APU for increased performance over the graphics card alone.

You'll struggle to build a PC for that price using Intel.

Might I suggest Ebuyer as a possible retailer. You might take a look at this APU then find a suitable FM2 motherboard
http://www.ebuyer.com/507064-amd-ap...b-cache-retail-boxed-processor-ad6500okhlbox-
 
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George Kaze Jordan

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Mar 5, 2014
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4,510



Looks great, and can knock off £20 for the hdd because I have 500gb lying around anyway, love the case
 
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sora

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Was gonna say that that is a great build, but that HDD would add some space and may be faster than your old 500gb hdd
 
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