The Motherboard
The motherboard is effectively the heart of any system and it is crucial that you get this right. Everything you see from the HDMI or USB ports on the back of your PC to the hard drive and processor rely on a compatible motherboard. Having stayed awake throughout the night to find you the best, we recommend the Asus P8Z68-V LX. It is a bargain at £75, packing heavyweight features with the most up-to-date Intel CPU support, up to 32GB of DDR3 ram, HDMI support and 6 USB slots (two of which are USB 3.0 for fast data transfer). This motherboard really is a steal for the price and rivals motherboards well into three or four times its value.
The GPU
The GPU affects anything that relates to visual elements on your system. Whether its getting a nice high definition resolution when playing a movie or sharp graphics when playing a game, you’ll need a powerful GPU regardless. In tech terms, bottlenecking is when one aspect of a PC that severely hinders its performance on the whole, and the GPU is commonly a bottleneck (in fact , it is currently bottlenecking the laptop this is being written on). We suggest the Radeon HD 7750. A great internal graphics card that fits nicely into one of the many PCI express slots on the Asus motherboard. At £75, it looks pricey, but it will be able to provide that much needed processing when utilizing graphics.