Motherboard+Proccessor+Ram for £150

[Dave_77]

Hi,
So as the title says I am looking for a combination of motherboard processor and Ram as part of an upgrade on my PC. I ideally would like to spend no more than £150 on the lot and would like minimum 8gb of DDR3 Ram and a quad-core 3.0GHz+ processor. I don't know if this is a bit unrealistic, but I would really appreciate anybody's advice on this. Thank you!
Dave

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Budget is too low , might cover a quad core and that's it.

 

[BlackLegBrian]

It's possible, just not recommended. What are you going to be using this for? This fits what you're looking for, however it's extremely outdated and newer dual core processors (Pentium g4560 for example) can beat it out. However I really wouldn't recommend this build, but if it's what you want.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - FX-4300 3.8GHz Quad-Core Processor (£56.32 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - GA-78LMT-USB3 Micro ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£49.20 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Team - Elite 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£43.46 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £148.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-05-11 19:17 BST+0100

 

[Dave_77]

It's possible, just not recommended. What are you going to be using this for? This fits what you're looking for, however it's extremely outdated and newer dual core processors (Pentium g4560 for example) can beat it out. However I really wouldn't recommend this build, but if it's what you want.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - FX-4300 3.8GHz Quad-Core Processor (£56.32 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - GA-78LMT-USB3 Micro ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£49.20 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Team - Elite 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£43.46 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £148.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-05-11 19:17 BST+0100

That is the sort of thing I'm looking for, sorry I should have specified that I'm probably gonna go entirely second hand. It will be for gaming, my current system cost £120 in total so I would basically like to bulk that out a bit. I can currently run csgo borderlands etc maxed out and it even ran no man's sky stablely, before I refunded, but I'm on drr2 right now so would like to upgrade from there.
Thanks

 

[BlackLegBrian]

Well if you go second hand then it really depends. I would look for an intel system at that price range, maybe a low end i5-xxxx for cheap? You can also get AMDs FX series chip set decently cheap as well. I would recommend like a FX-6XXX Chip if you go AMD however. I see some on ebay around 50~ or so, you can find a used motherboard for around 50~ as well, ram is going to be slightly cheaper. I might would recommend just saving up till you can afford a more up to date system however, I wouldn't recommend going second hand for parts this cheap, you will get mixed results.

 

[madmatt30]

A 6300 & board wouldn't be a bad choice at the right price ,ram wise I could easily sort you out with 8gb ddr3 ;-)

That said you can do a hyper threaded Pentium , b250 board & ddr4 for £162 completely new.
& that puts you on a newer upgradeable socket at the end of the day for a tiny bit of extra cash

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Pentium G4560 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor (£51.99 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: Asus - PRIME B250M-K Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£59.39 @ Aria PC)
Memory: ADATA - XPG Z1 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2800 Memory (£50.63 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £162.01
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-05-12 17:11 BST+0100

 

[BlackLegBrian]

A 6300 & board wouldn't be a bad choice at the right price ,ram wise I could easily sort you out with 8gb ddr3 ;-)

That said you can do a hyper threaded Pentium , b250 board & ddr4 for £162 completely new.
& that puts you on a newer upgradeable socket at the end of the day for a tiny bit of extra cash

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Pentium G4560 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor (£51.99 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: Asus - PRIME B250M-K Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£59.39 @ Aria PC)
Memory: ADATA - XPG Z1 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2800 Memory (£50.63 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £162.01
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-05-12 17:11 BST+0100

This is what I would really recommend. This would outperform any older FX processor at the price you're looking around (6300,4300) and would beat out any intel used processor you can find at the price point you want. I would really go with this, it puts you in the newest socket and you can upgrade to an i5 at some point for around $170~. However at this point it puts into question your PSU and such.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

A 6300 & board wouldn't be a bad choice at the right price ,ram wise I could easily sort you out with 8gb ddr3 ;-)

That said you can do a hyper threaded Pentium , b250 board & ddr4 for £162 completely new.
& that puts you on a newer upgradeable socket at the end of the day for a tiny bit of extra cash

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Pentium G4560 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor (£51.99 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: Asus - PRIME B250M-K Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£59.39 @ Aria PC)
Memory: ADATA - XPG Z1 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2800 Memory (£50.63 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £162.01
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-05-12 17:11 BST+0100

This is what I would really recommend. This would outperform any older FX processor at the price you're looking around (6300,4300) and would beat out any intel used processor you can find at the price point you want. I would really go with this, it puts you in the newest socket and you can upgrade to an i5 at some point for around $170~. However at this point it puts into question your PSU and such.

I like the combo , but not the ADATA modules.