Someone is selling in my area on gumtree a i5 2500k and z77 extream4 mobo with 8gb ddr3 ram for £140 is that a good price?

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Gingerbread
Well you do realize when you made your build, the i5 was twice more expensive, or if it was the same price, it wasn't that much faster. The FX 6300 is still a decent gaming CPU, and it can handle an r9 390 and it can run every game with the r9 390.
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Yeah still a powerful CPU, might be a slight bottleneck, but nothing a little bit of overclocking can't fix. Make sure you test it however before buying. That test includes resetting bios to default settings (to reset any corrections to the voltage of the CPU) and after that run a stress test to see what temps it reaches. This way you can get a rough idea of how good the CPU still is.
 
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It's not too cheap actually. It's an old tech which has only CPU + board + ram. Ram is most likely 1333mhz and is old and is generally cheap, new ram should be like £30. You cant sell this old cpu which used to cost 180-200£ new for more than £70 after at least 3 years of usage. Motherboard is dead socket also second hand, no one in his right mind would pay more than £40 for it. So I personally would pay no more than £130.
 
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You have to ask yourself why someone is selling - a 2500k is still plenty fast enough for most gaming, but if you do a big overclock, you can damage the CPU in the long term
I recently built a PC with a 4690k, a Gigabyte H81 HD3 and 8GB Crucial 1600Mhz CL9 RAM.
Total cost of the above was about £240 from Amazon.co.uk This is fantastically good value for money.
IMHO, saving up for this is a much better idea than buying secondhand parts.
 
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Nooo - don't get an 8350 - not significantly faster for gaming than the fx6300, but more power hungry and requires a bigger cooler
 
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I have a couple of 7 year old overclocked PCs which still run great, but I didn't get too greedy with the overclock....
Trouble is, you don't know how honest your seller is... if you could stress test the parts before buying them, then that would be OK.

As for AMD, there is no realistic upgrade path. You have 6 cores, which is more than enough, games use 4 or less. But each AMD core is very inefficient, and therefore slow compared with Intel. The cores in an 8350 are still just as inefficient, but you now have 8 of them. This doesn't really help for gaming....
 
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That's true a family friend who use to build pc's said the same thing about the reliability of the seller and I think I will just reoverclock my fx 6300 and just be patient I wish I got a i5 when I done my build now lol
 
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Well you do realize when you made your build, the i5 was twice more expensive, or if it was the same price, it wasn't that much faster. The FX 6300 is still a decent gaming CPU, and it can handle an r9 390 and it can run every game with the r9 390.
 
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