what to buy for upgrade-ablility

[Toker]

Hi i have around £200-£250 ($250-$300) to spend on getting a motherboard, CPU, ram and maybe a PSU so the systems will at least be semi usable allowing for as much upgrade-ability as possible as this will also be going on a wall case-less or in a custom made Lego case with custom water cooling over the next year. Even if this system first boots to 2gb of ram for the first month is fine, so any recommendations will be grateful. PS i live in the UK

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3 minutes ago, Toker said:

Hi i have around £200-£250 ($250-$300) to spend on getting a motherboard, CPU, ram and maybe a PSU so the systems will at least be semi usable allowing for as much upgrade-ability as possible as this will also be going on a wall case-less or in a custom made Lego case with custom water cooling over the next year. Even if this system first boots to 2gb of ram for the first month is fine, so any recommendations will be grateful. PS i live in the UK

Why do you use such a font?

[Unexas.]

3 minutes ago, Toker said:

Hi i have around £200-£250 ($250-$300) to spend on getting a motherboard, CPU, ram and maybe a PSU so the systems will at least be semi usable allowing for as much upgrade-ability as possible as this will also be going on a wall case-less or in a custom made Lego case with custom water cooling over the next year. Even if this system first boots to 2gb of ram for the first month is fine, so any recommendations will be grateful. PS i live in the UK

it would be best to just save up some more and get a i5 6600k with all the stuff you need for it.

[ItsTheDuckAgain]

think that one post OP is trolling !?!?!?

[Toker]

8 minutes ago, FTL said:

Why do you use such a font?

pure boredom

[Toker]

8 minutes ago, Unexas. said:

it would be best to just save up some more and get a i5 6600k with all the stuff you need for it.

cpu could be upgraded down the line as i will be selling my old system to fund parts of the new but needs a working system so i at least still have access to my media

[Alaa]

31 minutes ago, Toker said:

custom made Lego case

Its cheaper to buy a normal case TBO, especially that you are on a budget

[Toker]

6 minutes ago, Alaa said:

Its cheaper to buy a normal case TBO, especially that you are on a budget

its just a long term hobby project will probably rebuild the case a few times before before glue just to get parts sitting right

[SLAYR]

1 hour ago, Toker said:

Hi i have around £200-£250 ($250-$300) to spend on getting a motherboard, CPU, ram and maybe a PSU so the systems will at least be semi usable allowing for as much upgrade-ability as possible as this will also be going on a wall case-less or in a custom made Lego case with custom water cooling over the next year. Even if this system first boots to 2gb of ram for the first month is fine, so any recommendations will be grateful. PS i live in the UK

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/6qR4Yr

 

it is a little over £250, but is usable, and you can add a gpu like a rx 460, or gtx 1050, an ssd, or an i5/i7 in the future.

 

It is better to the buy parts once you have all the money, if you go to an ssd you will have to reinstall the OS onto it, if you sell the used parts you are still going to be paying a lot extra for the parts because you will be loosing money on the old parts .

[Toker]

36 minutes ago, SLAYR said:

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/6qR4Yr

 

it is a little over £250, but is usable, and you can add a gpu like a rx 460, or gtx 1050, an ssd, or an i5/i7 in the future.

 

It is better to the buy parts once you have all the money, if you go to an ssd you will have to reinstall the OS onto it, if you sell the used parts you are still going to be paying a lot extra for the parts because you will be loosing money on the old parts .

thats almost perfect only dnt need a hdd so save there but looking for abit of a bigger/nicer motherbored in black as will be building the case half open to look like its still being built and maybe ddr4 compatible. i have been considering a ASRock Z170 Extreme4+ LGA 1151 Intel Z170 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

[SLAYR]

55 minutes ago, Toker said:

thats almost perfect only dnt need a hdd so save there but looking for abit of a bigger/nicer motherbored in black as will be building the case half open to look like its still being built and maybe ddr4 compatible. i have been considering a ASRock Z170 Extreme4+ LGA 1151 Intel Z170 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

That is a pretty expensive board over half of your budget. You can get a z170 board for a lot cheaper.

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/qzsKKZ

 

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/YYH48d/asrock-motherboard-z170extreme4

 

And I didn't include a case in the first list it is pretty much personal prefernece to whether or not you are going to like it, but If you plan on upgrading the build I would get a decent case that would handle the upgrades such as a large gpu and such.

 

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/HrXfnn

[Toker]

10 minutes ago, SLAYR said:

That is a pretty expensive board over half of your budget. You can get a z170 board for a lot cheaper.

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/qzsKKZ

 

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/YYH48d/asrock-motherboard-z170extreme4

 

And I didn't include a case in the first list it is pretty much personal prefernece to whether or not you are going to like it, but If you plan on upgrading the build I would get a decent case that would handle the upgrades such as a large gpu and such.

 

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/HrXfnn

Ive managed to get this down to 270-280 on newegg.com https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/LVg3gL