BlueRubber
Novice Member
Hi
my children have managed to short out my motherboard, CPU, graphics card and RAM.... probably not their fault they were plugging some peripherals in and it turned off. I spent some time fruitlessly fiddling with it and finally dropped it into a shop for a diagnosis and was told the above components had all blown.
I didn't ask about the PSU .. it is quite new and i am hoping it is still ok ... I hope the hard drives are ok as well (not checked yet) ... currently reduced to using my son's now he is asleep and stopped playing Minecraft.
Christmas is here and I don't have much spare cash so this will need to be a realtively budget build but I would like to be back up and running ASAP.
I can get a better Graphics card later when I can afford it.
I generally use the PC ofr web / office and Steam - my days of hard core gaming are somewhere behind me, but I like to keep my hand in .... it would be nice to play Fallout 4.
I was thinking of the following
Current PSU (Assuming it still works): Corsair 750W RM750 RM Series
CPU: Intel i5 4609k £172.23
Motherboard: mod 1150 asus z97-A ATX £115
RAM: Vengeance 8 gb RAM £34.98
SSD: Samsung EVO 850 250Gb £60
I am not sure what Graphics card to buy .. I am a bit out of the loop but am looking around £120 - £150
It looks like AMD are possibly better at this price point?
I was thinking that an R7 370 4 GB card might be good - something like
MSI AMD R7 370 gaming Graphics card (4 GB, OC, PCI-E, 3.0, GDDR5, DVI-I, HDMI: £134 I would also like a new case - around £50 ish. I curently have Next Lexa which has seen a number of PC rebuilds over the years and probably needs pensioning off now.
I would be grateful for your advice on this build plus on a good graphics card and Case
Cheers
Blue
my children have managed to short out my motherboard, CPU, graphics card and RAM.... probably not their fault they were plugging some peripherals in and it turned off. I spent some time fruitlessly fiddling with it and finally dropped it into a shop for a diagnosis and was told the above components had all blown.
I didn't ask about the PSU .. it is quite new and i am hoping it is still ok ... I hope the hard drives are ok as well (not checked yet) ... currently reduced to using my son's now he is asleep and stopped playing Minecraft.
Christmas is here and I don't have much spare cash so this will need to be a realtively budget build but I would like to be back up and running ASAP.
I can get a better Graphics card later when I can afford it.
I generally use the PC ofr web / office and Steam - my days of hard core gaming are somewhere behind me, but I like to keep my hand in .... it would be nice to play Fallout 4.
I was thinking of the following
Current PSU (Assuming it still works): Corsair 750W RM750 RM Series
CPU: Intel i5 4609k £172.23
Motherboard: mod 1150 asus z97-A ATX £115
RAM: Vengeance 8 gb RAM £34.98
SSD: Samsung EVO 850 250Gb £60
I am not sure what Graphics card to buy .. I am a bit out of the loop but am looking around £120 - £150
It looks like AMD are possibly better at this price point?
I was thinking that an R7 370 4 GB card might be good - something like
MSI AMD R7 370 gaming Graphics card (4 GB, OC, PCI-E, 3.0, GDDR5, DVI-I, HDMI: £134 I would also like a new case - around £50 ish. I curently have Next Lexa which has seen a number of PC rebuilds over the years and probably needs pensioning off now.
I would be grateful for your advice on this build plus on a good graphics card and Case
Cheers
Blue
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