motherboard bundles purchase suggestions

mariejader

Please can any of you techies help me purchase a motherboard bundle, graphics card and some good ram for our sons desktop pc for his Christmas present.

He is big into gaming mainly World of War Craft, we are looking to spend approx £300 - £400, we spent approx £500 a few years ago on a gaming laptop only to find it could not cope with the heat.

Although my husband has the understanding on how to assemble these components he is not in any way technical enough to know what to buy.

JJ_Egan

£400, at that sort of level it might be worth looking at a bare bones pre built desktop .

jje

JasX

It would be very useful to know what spec your desktop is NOW and what spec the laptop is.

1-It would be a real shame to spend £400 on a new processor to find it was only marginally better than the one you had and the money would have been better spent on other components (eg adding RAM and a new graphics card)
2-similarly getting a new processor but finding your graphics card was severly holding you back and would have been better advised to split your upgrade cash between graphics card+processor equally
3-if you have a gaming laptop thats good spec but suffering heat this can be readily remedied with a good quality aluminium laptop cooling stand (£20-£25) and might get you most of the way towards a good world of warcraft experience as it is

If you're struggling to identify exactly what you have already someone on here can probably recommend a good freeware diagnostic tool that'll ID and list your hardware spec

iamadave

I would look at the deals at novatech or other places, bundles for a good price. For that sort of money you could afford a barebones deal and spend a decent bit on a graphic card.

mariejader

thanks for the reply's will look at the bundles at Novatech, also just come across Overclockers does Overclocking improve it's performance and does it have a negative effect to its long term reliability?

JasX

mariejader wrote: »

thanks for the reply's will look at the bundles at Novatech, also just come across Overclockers does Overclocking improve it's performance and does it have a negative effect to its long term reliability?

yes and yes but its in this case its just the name of the shop, selling the same stuff as all the others...

hubert_cumberdale

buy from overclockers for the best stuff

also have large forum if your stuck