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£300 budget - need CPU,Motherboard and PSU

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September 3, 2014 11:06:53 AM

I'm happy to buy second hand off eBay or wherever.
I currently have a system with an r9 290, AMD 5800k APU ,400W PSU and 8gb g skill 2400mhz RAM

with £300 (once again I don't mind buying second hand to maximise value for money)
I would like the fastest intel processor and board I can afford which will accept the 2400mhz ram

I also need a good PSU to replace the 400W which is obviously under powered for a r9 290 (system actually runs fine though and I haven't had any issues)

What processor, micro ATX motherboard and psu should I look at buying?
might be able to increase budget a little from sale of old components also

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September 3, 2014 11:12:07 AM

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£157.99 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Asus Z97-PRO ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£134.98 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £292.97
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-03 19:11 BST+0100

DDR3-1066 / 1333 / 1600 / 1800 / 1866 / 2000 / 2133 / 2200 / 2400 / 2500 / 2600 / 2666 / 2800 / 2933 / 3000 / 3100 / 3200

PSU:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£66.60 @ Aria PC)
Total: £66.60
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-03 19:13 BST+0100
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September 7, 2014 9:35:31 AM

take an i3 4150 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...) 130 + m/b $http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... 70 $ and a 50 $ psu .. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...


if i were you , I would buy a pentium g3258 for 70 bucks (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...) with a cheap overclockable m/b http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... for 45 bucks and a water cooler (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...) 50 bucks........ total :165 $ + corsair cx 750 for 80 bucks
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September 7, 2014 12:37:09 PM

For under 300 pounds and a m-atx motherboard,

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£161.94 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock Z97M Pro4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£78.00 @ More Computers)
Power Supply: XFX 750W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£58.99 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £298.93
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-07 20:34 BST+0100

You could also use this motherboard,but it needs to have bios 1.90 for the cpu to work,
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/asrock-motherboard-z87m...
For the psu is 750watts a bit much,but it had the right price and is a good psu.
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September 7, 2014 5:09:25 PM

tomtsir said:
take an i3 4150 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...) 130 + m/b $http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... 70 $ and a 50 $ psu .. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...


if i were you , I would buy a pentium g3258 for 70 bucks (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...) with a cheap overclockable m/b http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... for 45 bucks and a water cooler (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...) 50 bucks........ total :165 $ + corsair cx 750 for 80 bucks


He has a 300 quid build... $1 USD is like $1.70 GBP.
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