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Tight Budget Upgrade

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April 4, 2014 2:36:31 PM

Hi, folks!

I hope you can give me some advice on upgrading my machine for a better overall performance including gaming and editing.
Since I have a tight budget of around 150 bucks [€] I thought I'd get a new mainboard and cpu. The ram is not very good but an upgrade is not really required. What do you think about my choice?
CPU: AMD A10-5800K [€90, £75, $123]
MB: Gigabyte GA-F2A88X-D3H [€60, £50, $182]

If you recommend to upgrade my ram because amd apus have a great benefit from doing so, what would you choose for €50 [£41, $69]? Should be at least 8GB.

Thank you for your help
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April 4, 2014 2:55:15 PM

The A10 + the MB are good choice, but in the €50 budget, you can't get any 8GB RAM because the lowest one is the £47.50 http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/parts/memory/#t=11&Z=8192001... or you maybe can find one in your local shop.
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April 4, 2014 4:29:15 PM

@chin19 Thanks for your time so far.

I might take the GA-F2A88XM-HD3 mainboard which is €10 cheaper and the A8-6600K APU which is €20 cheaper to have a total of €80 to spend on RAM. I found a 2x4GB Kit from Kingston called HyperX DDR3-1866 DIMM CL9.

As my family will celebrate my birthday next month I have hope to get new components soon : D

Or I take this money to get something even more useful ... A BICYCLE because my older one is scrap after eight years of usage xD
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