Noob needing advice...

Jockles

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Hi, I am looking into attempting to to build a PC for my first time and was wondering if anyone can advise me on what I should buy. A work friend is going to sell me a motherboard Asus p6t se for £40 which i have been told is a good buy, but also been told otherwise by another friend. My question is this then if I do go ahead and buy this and assuming i already have a case and power supply. What other compatible hardware should i buy?.. CPU, RAM , Graphics card and any extras i may need like cooling fans that will help me play games on the highest possible settings.

I already have a monitor ( without HDMI ) and my PSU is Arctic 700( dunno if that's any good to be honest)

I am looking to spend around 400-500 not including the motherboard purchase.If however you think i should scrap the motherboard purchase and can come up with something different from scratch please let me know. Thanks in advance.

Ryan
 
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I recommend don't buy that MB Asus p6t se because it is the LGA1366 x58 and it is old. And you only can find £200 cpu for it which is the lowest price. http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B001H5T7LK/?tag=pcp0f-21 So even it is free I will not take it.

Here I pick up some components for you, you can choose which site to buy, and the price may different or it will be over your budget range a little bit..
PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3964U
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3964U/by_merchant/
Benchmarks: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3964U/benchmarks/

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor (£77.99 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Asus M5A97 R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£61.99 @ Amazon UK)
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I recommend don't buy that MB Asus p6t se because it is the LGA1366 x58 and it is old. And you only can find £200 cpu for it which is the lowest price. http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B001H5T7LK/?tag=pcp0f-21 So even it is free I will not take it.

Here I pick up some components for you, you can choose which site to buy, and the price may different or it will be over your budget range a little bit..
PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3964U
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3964U/by_merchant/
Benchmarks: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3964U/benchmarks/

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor (£77.99 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Asus M5A97 R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£61.99 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston Blu 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£58.42 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£35.99 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 270X 2GB Video Card (£138.99 @ Ebuyer)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£44.98 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£11.78 @ CCL Computers)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£69.96 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £500.10
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-03-13 13:20 GMT+0000)

Best Graphics Cards or CPU For The Money:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-5.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-7.html

270x review
http://www.techspot.com/review/722-radeon-r9-270x-r7-260x/
http://www.techspot.com/review/734-battlefield-4-benchmarks/page3.html

 
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