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Challenge:- How cheap can you pick up these parts?

My challenge: how cheap can you find all the below parts?

(2nd Hand/refurb/sale/etc accepted)

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Soooo I don't have a huge amount of money to pick up my planned PC and the situation just turned critical as my laptop just died after 5 years of loyal service and I'm am reduced to my iPad...

This was my planned build when buying new parts as I figured I had some more. Time to save up me moneys, but I don't so here we are:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£180.99 @ Amazon UK)

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z87-D3HP ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£41.99)

Memory: Avexir Core series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£49.99)

Storage: Sandisk Solid State Drive 64GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£33.54 @ Aria PC)

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£37.99 @ Aria PC)

Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 280 3GB TWIN FROZR Video Card (£146.99 @ Novatech)

Case: Corsair Graphite Series 230T Orange ATX Mid Tower Case (£57.50 @ Aria PC)

Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£38.87 @ Scan.co.uk)

Total: £587.86

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-03-02 00:11 GMT+0000

The motherboard is sourced from here:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BG-347-GI&groupid=595&catid=689

And the RAM is sourced from here:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-078-AR&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517

And I also have a buddy with a windows 7 disk and if that fails I'll grab the windows 10 technical release.

Soooo, I need a relatively good CPU for 3D work/animating/rendering, video editing and Photoshop, etc.

I need a relatively good, wallet-friendly, graphics card so to play most games at 1080p high settings.

8 Gigs of RAM is standard but doesn't have to be avexir, but must not just be a PCB.

I would ideally have an SSD but that is not extremely nessascary and I need 1TB of storage for general work etc.

I want a relatively reliable PSU cause it pays off in the long run and the efficiency rating will hopefully keep some components last slightly longer.

However this is a wee bit (significantly) over what I have at the moment, so.... I live in the UK which has less 2nd tech shops, etc but I was wondering what discount/refurbed/2nd parts you can to drop the budget that are equivalent or better than the ones listed, without a good reason.

Also has anyone else bought a b grade overclockers UK item? Are they reliable? And what do you think of the parts?

Good luck

It Won't Fail Cause of Me.

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Thats that. If you need to get in touch chances are you can find someone that knows me that can get in touch.

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Soooo, I need a relatively good CPU for 3D work/animating/rendering, video editing and Photoshop, etc.

In this one case, I'd actually grab an 8320 if you want to save some bucks

"Rawr XD"

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