What is the best mini itx motherboard and cpu I can get for around £150

Aidanrooney · Jan 26, 2016

I have a am1 board and cpu and am hoping to upgrade so I can hopefully do some gaming but are on quite a tight budget. Thanks in advance for any answers

Forever Oleg · Jan 26, 2016

What are your other current PC parts?

Aidanrooney · Jan 27, 2016

My other PCs parts are:
Old western digital 160gb hdd
A rubbish psu
A semperon 1650 (or something like that(
And a am1l motherboard

Andrei-Florin Gogan · Jan 27, 2016

What does a rubbish psu mean?

kwa-e · Jan 27, 2016

Andrei-Florin Gogan :

I think it's quite obvious, fire starters, fireworks, electro toasters etc.

kwa-e · Jan 27, 2016

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4170 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor (£85.99 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: MSI H81I Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard (£52.46 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £138.45
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-27 09:00 GMT+0000

Edit: Whoops, Posted it in USD. My apolgoies.

kwa-e · Jan 27, 2016

Though if you currently have a 5350 you can probably overclock it and add in a GTX 950 which does pretty decently in games if you're in a really tight budget.

-HH- · Jan 27, 2016

I think running a new CPU would be better kwa-e,

though the GTX 950 is a good idea i'm not sure how the cpu would deal with it. You could overclock it to death and replace it if it dies. Like it's not expensive.

However the i3 would be a good upgrade for general usage and be a cooler/quieter system when using reference coolers.

kwa-e · Jan 27, 2016

True.

Aidanrooney · Jan 27, 2016

Is there not any better value stuff from amd or is the i3 the way to go

-HH- · Jan 27, 2016

The only way you'd get better price for performance is to increase your budget between £25 and £50 more for an i5 processor which will be WAY better all round.

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