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PierceDem

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Hey all,

I finally decided to build my first computer, capable of playing games to a reasonable standard. My budget stands at around £500, and was hoping you could let me know what your thoughts are on the parts I chose.




PSU- OCZ OCZ-CXS500W-UK CoreXStream Series 500W Power Supply - OCZ
£36.47
Case- CiT Vantage Type-R Gaming Case with HD Audio, 4 Fans, Card Reader and No PSU - Black - CiT
£36.17
DiskDrive- LG GH24NS90.AUAA50B 24x SATA Bare Internal DVD Rewriter - Black - LG
£11.99
CPU- AMD FX6300 Black Edition 6 Core (3.5/4.1GHz, 8MB Level 3 Cache, 6MB Level 2 Cache, Socket AM3+, 95W, Retail Boxed) - AMD
£90.55
Motherboard- Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 Motherboard (Socket AM3+, Up to 16GB DDR3, USB 3.0, uATX) - Asus
£51.53
RAM- Corsair CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600 Mhz CL9 XMP Performance Desktop Memory Kit Black - Corsair
£57.96
HDD-Seagate 1TB 3.5 inch 7200RPM 64MB Cache SATA3 Hard Drive - Seagate
£54.95
GPU- Asus HD 7770 2GB AMD Radeon Graphics Card - Asus
£116.92

Any replies would be appreciated, cheers!
 
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coozie7
Others will make other points but:
Too much memory, shave a little off that, 8 Gb is more than enough, and put the money where it can do more gaming good: a better graphics card.
The HD7770 is nowhere near fast enough to use 2Gb of memory, and it's 128 bit address bus is an additional handicap, I suggest you look towards the GTX650Ti boost with a little cash taken off the memory you can have this:
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/2gb-palit-gtx-650-ti-boost-28nm-pcie-30-(x16)-6008mhz-gddr5-gpu-980mhz-cores-768-dport-dl-dvi-hdmi


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Others will make other points but:
Too much memory, shave a little off that, 8 Gb is more than enough, and put the money where it can do more gaming good: a better graphics card.
The HD7770 is nowhere near fast enough to use 2Gb of memory, and it's 128 bit address bus is an additional handicap, I suggest you look towards the GTX650Ti boost with a little cash taken off the memory you can have this:
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/2gb-palit-gtx-650-ti-boost-28nm-pcie-30-(x16)-6008mhz-gddr5-gpu-980mhz-cores-768-dport-dl-dvi-hdmi


 
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PierceDem

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Sorry the 2x8 was a typo, it's only 8gb of ram. Okay cheers, so a GTX 650 Ti Boost NVIDIA Graphics Card - 2GB to replace the HD7770.
 
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