Skylake Budget Build Suggestions

Punkboy on 13/07/2016 - 14:03

I'm hoping to get some help/suggestions for a budget skylake build.

Nephew has somehow managed to put 12V through USB and fried his old Athlon X2 5400+ motherboard. As a 14yo, he is on a tight budget based on birthday, christmas and odd jobs money.

The thinking is to tackle this in two parts:
1) re-use as much as existing as possible ie PSU, case, HDD and GPU (ancient GT8800). Risk that PSU may not work I guess.
Buy Mobo, CPU (maybe interim such as pentium) and RAM (DDR4), maybe use on board gfx in place of gt8800 if reasonable skylake.
2) Save and add components as funds build up

My question, what sort of bang for buck components should he run with? Part 1 budget is $350-$400.
Should he go with B150 board and bigger CPU or attempt an OC of a pentium on a Z170?
Ideally he'd like to have DDR4 (prefer 4 slots but could live with 2).

The motherboard is a real dilemma with price ranges at $100 - $200+. OC would be nice but having to get a z170 just for that seems crazy coming from old AMD world where almost any mobo would support OC to some degree.

Anyway, bang for buck suggestions welcome.

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Comments

  • stevenlab91 on 13/07/2016 - 16:11

    Can you be a bit more specific on what he is using it for?
    Is it just for school work etc. or mostly for gaming?

    • Punkboy on 14/07/2016 - 13:52

      Some school work and light ie low res gaming. eg Minecraft and has been playing Batman Arkham city at lower res. He's coming off a low base.

  • Diji1 on 13/07/2016 - 16:31
    +2

    No point in overclocking on a tight budget unless you specifically need as much CPU horsepower above all else which isn't you.

    I recently bought a Gigabyte B150M-D2H for $129 which is a popular budget B150 Socket 1151 board.

    I put a i5-6600 for $272 though I suspect ~$300 is likely unless a good deal comes along. I don't think there's really a good "stop gap" CPU option for socket 1151 though.

    And 16GB RAM Corsair LPX 2133 DDR4 for $92 however you could expect to pay a lot less for 8GB DDR4 with slightly looser timings (1 or 2% performance difference, not a compromise).

    I suspect that the existing power supply will be sufficient but if not Corsair CX500 is a good, quiet budget PSU that will be fine for adding new video cards - $79. For 5 - 10 bucks more you can get semi or full modular versions.

    All prices from MSY (except CPU from Techmi which was a rare deal).

    • stevenlab91 on 13/07/2016 - 17:16
      +1

      Techmi still selling i5-6600 for $269.99 + $10 courier or free pickup
      I just recently built a whole system from the ground up. I found eyo.com.au have some very good prices also on certain components

      • Diji1 on 13/07/2016 - 17:40

        Oh nice \o/

  • [Deactivated] on 14/07/2016 - 13:43

    Pentium G3258 $90 + $70-$80 mobo suited to OC like Asrock H81m-HDS.
    Easy OC to 4.2, may need $30 cooler.
    This is the BEST BANG for BUCK cpu you can get, it is gen 4 tho.

    I will neg myself because you asked for gen 6 :-(

    • Punkboy on 14/07/2016 - 13:51

      Yes thanks, did consider 4th gen but next 3 gens are supposed to run on socket 1151.

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