Rebuilding very old computer

[Anthillion]

Dear Forums

 

I was thinking about turning my HP Pavilion A230 UK 80GB TOW 512MB Desktop PC into a gaming PC but I don’t know what to buy, what will fit and I only have a budget of £300. If you could advise on what to buy that would be really cool.

Thanks,

 

Anthillion

[3 Lions]

What are the current specs? 

[79wjd]

What games do you want to play? 

 

There isn't really much you can do to upgrade that. 

[BritishTechGuy]

Just checking before I suggest anything:

1. Is it the full complete original system you are thinking of transforming?
2. What are the specs of your machine (for compatibility)(like RAM type and current CPU, etc)?
3. What games are you planning on playing?

[79 Potatoes]

If you just want to reuse the case (asuming it's one of those mATX prebuilts) something like this should fit

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: Crucial - 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  (£50.14 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate - BarraCuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£37.99 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Zotac - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB Mini Video Card  (£127.97 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Super Flower - Golden Green HX 450W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply  (£52.42 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £379.90
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-05-07 12:20 BST+0100

 

It's over the budget, but you didn't specify any games

 

[BritishTechGuy]

7 minutes ago, 79 Potatoes said:

If you just want to reuse the case (asuming it's one of those mATX prebuilts) something like this should fit

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: Crucial - 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  (£50.14 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate - BarraCuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£37.99 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Zotac - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB Mini Video Card  (£127.97 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Super Flower - Golden Green HX 450W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply  (£52.42 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £379.90
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-05-07 12:20 BST+0100

 

It's over the budget, but you didn't specify any games

 

You could maybe downscale the Video card a bit, but you wouldn't want to go much lower that that, but that is probably near perfect for the case and I was going to surgest half of those parts anyway. Good job @79 Potatoes.