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    Budget build, below £400, advice needed & suggestions

    No stranger to building PC's back in the days of ivybridge, but I sold my PC a while ago. Hasty decision I may add, that I regret. Bought a laptop, but no matter how much persuasion I give it, you can't really do much with HD graphics.

    Anyway recently built a budget pc using old components for my better half as she's a D3 fan, but now it's got me interested in doing a second budget build for D3 at max graphics.

    Any advice would be good as I'm a stranger to haswell (which look a bit out of the price range i'm looking at), and the new intel duel cores on haswell?

    Needs to run D3 in max, needs to be below £400, would prefer intel & nvidia, although I'm falling behind with what's good, so I'm fairly game on whatever you suggest. I've literally spent a day looking at parts and don't know which direction to take.

    I know a little about overclocking as I overclocked my ivybridge.
    Last edited by mmoc0a09494339; 2014-09-02 at 01:07 PM.

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    PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

    CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor (£68.69 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
    CPU Cooler: Zalman CNPS5X Performa CPU Cooler (£12.37 @ Amazon UK)
    Motherboard: MSI Z97 PC MATE ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£63.53 @ Amazon UK)
    Memory: GeIL EVO CORSA Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£60.99 @ Amazon UK)
    Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£35.94 @ Aria PC)
    Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R7 260X 2GB Video Card (£79.99 @ Amazon UK)
    Case: Xigmatek Recon ATX Mid Tower Case (£28.01 @ Amazon UK)
    Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£46.93 @ CCL Computers)
    Total: £396.45
    Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
    Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-02 14:16 BST+0100

    There we go. Dual core offers less eprformance, but it's deifnitely overclockable. Not sure if D3 will be at max, but it'll play it for sure.

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    Thanks for that Appreciated.

    Is there a reason behind the motherboard other than price? i.e. overclocking ease?

    Just curious as i'm pricing up the same list on scan.co.uk so it can all come from the same place. They have a gigabyte motherboard, z97, for a lower price.

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    The Pentium I chose is the 20th Anniversary Edition, and the moptherboard I chose is one of the two chipsets that the CPU is guaranteed to work in (the other chipset being the Z87, which has lower features). I'm pushing tof rhte best features within the budget.

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    Is this also ok? Tiny bit cheaper thats all haha.

    http://www.scan.co.uk/products/gigab...firex-hdmi-atx

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    PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

    CPU: Intel Core i3-4150 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor (£79.99 @ Aria PC)
    Motherboard: ASRock H97M-ITX/AC Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard (£47.30 @ Amazon UK)
    Memory: Patriot Signature 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£58.49 @ Ebuyer)
    Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£37.14 @ Aria PC)
    Video Card: PowerColor Radeon R9 270X 2GB TurboDuo Video Card (£123.94 @ More Computers)
    Case: Cooler Master Elite 120 Advanced (White) Mini ITX Tower Case (£27.99 @ Amazon UK)
    Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£28.26 @ Amazon UK)
    Total: £403.11
    Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
    Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-02 17:26 BST+0100

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