Best bang for my buck

[Shane66]

Hi to the forum, I have just been given the all clear to buy a new pc by her who knows best.

I use my machine for the odd game but mostly for multi tasking joomla, photoshop, I will also be having a go at setting up a rdp client.

I have decided on a 120gb ssd for the OP and a 2tb for storage.

My question is what would be my best option for motherboard, ram, cpu I have a budget of £240 max.

I have found these two bundles on ebay.....which one do you think is the better option.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AMD-FX-8320-Vishera-8-Core-3-50GHz-Asus-M5A78L-M-LX-V2-8GB-DDR3-BUNDLE-/160914397172?pt=UK_Motherboards_CPUs&hash=item25773ed7f4

or

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AMD-6350-FX-4-2Ghz-8GB-DDR3-1600mhz-Corsair-Asus-M5A78L-M-Motherboard-Bundle-/370825969338?pt=UK_Motherboards_CPUs&hash=item5656f33eba

I will upgrade to 16mb of ram later

If you know of something better please let me know

 

[envy14tpe]

Definitely the 8320. It's the best bang for buck CPU period! And it will overclock and smoke the 6300. Not to mention it barely costs more than a 6300.

EDIT. I'm not a fan of those bundles though. The mobos are weak.

 

[envy14tpe]

CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor (£109.50 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Asus M5A97 R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£59.00 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£69.98 @ Novatech)
Total: £238.48
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-01-02 13:26 GMT+0000)

 

[Shane66]

This looks great but as I mentioned I am on a very tight budget, I will still need a heat sink and past.
Will this one be ok
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B006344OMM/?tag=pcp0f-21 and past

 

[envy14tpe]

Don't go to cheap on a heatsink/fan. The minimum and great choice is the Cooler Master Evo.
b]CPU:[/b] AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor (£109.50 @ Amazon UK)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£23.90 @ Ebuyer)
Thermal Compound: Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver 3.5g Thermal Paste (£11.27 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Motherboard: Asus M5A97 R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£59.00 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£69.98 @ Novatech)
Total: £273.65
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)

 

[Shane66]

I went with your suggestions but a couple of items were out of stock so i had to order elsewhere, total came to £280.40.

Many thanks for your advice.

PS by pushing me over budget you probably cost me no sex for a week......but a nice new computer should make up for it
😉

 

[envy14tpe]

I went with your suggestions but a couple of items were out of stock so i had to order elsewhere, total came to £280.40.

Many thanks for your advice.

PS by pushing me over budget you probably cost me no sex for a week......but a nice new computer should make up for it
😉

If you don't know already. There is a correlation between how good your PC is and how much sex you get. The more I spend on my machine the more frustrated my woman gets.

So, what components did you end up getting? I hope you stuck with that mobo and CPU.