Recent content by Robin Saunders

Hi all, Thanks again to everyone for their input. Sorry for the delayed reply - the RAM finally arrived this week, so I've been able to try things out. Here's what I've got: PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Celeron G3900 2.8GHz Dual-Core Processor (£36.20 @ CCL...

Thanks again to everyone for your advice. After looking more carefully at motherboards, I'm thinking of going for ASRock's B150M Pro4S, which is cheaper than its H170 counterpart but still has four RAM slots and supports Crossfire. I'm still open to suggestions, though. For power I'm sticking...

Thank you all for your recommendations, and sorry for the massive reply.

Thanks for the advice on booting - I'll look into what there is (or it might be possible to take apart the external drive I've got and plug it into the motherboard directly). As for prebuilt machines, my goal is to be able to upgrade or add some components in a few years' time, when I have more...

Honestly, the lower the better: the components I listed come to a bit over £210 (~$280) including the case. I'm probably going to want a new monitor, wireless card and perhaps other peripherals; my goal is around £300 ($400) all in, or £400 ($530) at absolute tops. I'm mainly expecting to use...

Hi everyone, First, sorry for any inadvertent breaches of etiquette. I'm new to this site, and to hardware in general. I have a pretty tight budget, and am living in the UK where many prices seem to be different from the US. On the other hand, I'd also like to make something at least...