Hi. I'm a bit of a noob to this. My son (13) is building his first gaming PC. He has a micro-ATX case with 500W supply and an EVGA 2Gb GeForce GTX 960 SuperSC nVidia Maxwell gaming graphics card. Can someone out there suggest a suitable motherboard and processor. We have £120-£170 set aside for this. The only article on the forum I found on this topic is 18 months old. He plays online games like Star Wars Battlefront, Titan Fall, COD as well as games like Mirror's Edge and Portal. He wants to be able to upgrade it too.
Recommended entry gaming motherboard and cpu
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I added either intel or amd, and I don't know you have the RAM for that PC or not, so I added the RAM. You can get the 8GB ( 2 X4GB ). But intel is on £154 budget. AMD is £123.
Here is review for one of the games your son played, the Star Wars Battlefront, http://www.techspot.com/review/1096-star-wars-battlefront-benchmarks/
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: Intel Core i3-4160 3.6GHz Dual-Core Processor (£89.99 @ Novatech)
Motherboard: Asus H81M-K Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£35.49 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Kingston HyperX FURY 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£28.49 @ Ebuyer)
Total: £153.97
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-07-12 18:28 BST+0100
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: AMD Athlon X4 860K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor (£59.99 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Asus A68HM-Plus Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard (£34.00 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Kingston HyperX FURY 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£28.49 @ Ebuyer)
Total: £122.48
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-07-12 18:29 BST+0100
Here is review for one of the games your son played, the Star Wars Battlefront, http://www.techspot.com/review/1096-star-wars-battlefront-benchmarks/
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: Intel Core i3-4160 3.6GHz Dual-Core Processor (£89.99 @ Novatech)
Motherboard: Asus H81M-K Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£35.49 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Kingston HyperX FURY 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£28.49 @ Ebuyer)
Total: £153.97
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-07-12 18:28 BST+0100
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: AMD Athlon X4 860K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor (£59.99 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Asus A68HM-Plus Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard (£34.00 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Kingston HyperX FURY 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£28.49 @ Ebuyer)
Total: £122.48
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-07-12 18:29 BST+0100
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