Ok kind of got sucked in yesterday -
Newegg had a micro case and 400 watt power supply on sale for $15 AR. Decided to buy the micro case and then decided one piece after another to build a machine.
$15 AR - Case & 400 Watt PS
$60 - CPU & GPU - AMD A6-5400
$73 - MOBO - ASRock FM2A75 Pro4-M FM2 AMD A75
$57 - Memory - 8GB (2X4gb) 1600 DDR3
$18 - DVD Burner
$90 - 128 SSD - Samsung 830 Series
$313 TOTAL - no tax and already included shipping costs
Am hoping it all works together. Like said just found the deal on the case and then got sucked in the rest of the night.
What kind of performance should I expect?
What would be the best chip I could get for the MOBO if I decided to upgrade?
Would adding a good gaming graphics card make a huge difference?
Did I need the DVD burner or could I have just used a memory stick? I really don't need to burn DVDs & don't play them. I guess as a home theater I might.
Planning to just put Linux on to test everything and then see where I go from there.
Any input appreciated. Hope it might help someone build theirs. It took me like 5 hours last night to find the deals and decide what I wanted. A bit proud of building what I think is a pretty nice system for $313. Any site I could have used that would have found me good deals and made sure all this would work together? Could I have found a deal on a system that would have been just as good? Used Techbargains quite a bit.
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Case - NewEgg
HEC Vigilance400 Black 0.5 mm Thickness SGCC MicroATX Mini Tower Computer Case with Dual 8cm Fan, 2x USB2.0, Audio HP400 400W Power Supply
MOBO - NewEgg
ASRock FM2A75 Pro4-M FM2 AMD A75 (Hudson D3) HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
Memory - NewEgg
Kingston HyperX Black Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model KHX16C9B1BK2/8 - Free Resident Evil-Revelations PC Games
DVD - NewEgg
LG 24X DVD Burner - Bare Drive 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 24X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 24X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM Black SATA Model GH24NS95 - OEM
Drive - Rakutan
Samsung 830 Series 128GB 2.5" SATA III Solid State Drive (SSD)
CPU & GPU - NewEgg
AMD A6-5400K Trinity 3.6GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) Socket FM2 65W Dual-Core Desktop APU (CPU + GPU) with DirectX 11 Graphic AMD Radeon HD 7540D AD540KOKHJBOX
Newegg had a micro case and 400 watt power supply on sale for $15 AR. Decided to buy the micro case and then decided one piece after another to build a machine.
$15 AR - Case & 400 Watt PS
$60 - CPU & GPU - AMD A6-5400
$73 - MOBO - ASRock FM2A75 Pro4-M FM2 AMD A75
$57 - Memory - 8GB (2X4gb) 1600 DDR3
$18 - DVD Burner
$90 - 128 SSD - Samsung 830 Series
$313 TOTAL - no tax and already included shipping costs
Am hoping it all works together. Like said just found the deal on the case and then got sucked in the rest of the night.
What kind of performance should I expect?
What would be the best chip I could get for the MOBO if I decided to upgrade?
Would adding a good gaming graphics card make a huge difference?
Did I need the DVD burner or could I have just used a memory stick? I really don't need to burn DVDs & don't play them. I guess as a home theater I might.
Planning to just put Linux on to test everything and then see where I go from there.
Any input appreciated. Hope it might help someone build theirs. It took me like 5 hours last night to find the deals and decide what I wanted. A bit proud of building what I think is a pretty nice system for $313. Any site I could have used that would have found me good deals and made sure all this would work together? Could I have found a deal on a system that would have been just as good? Used Techbargains quite a bit.
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Case - NewEgg
HEC Vigilance400 Black 0.5 mm Thickness SGCC MicroATX Mini Tower Computer Case with Dual 8cm Fan, 2x USB2.0, Audio HP400 400W Power Supply
MOBO - NewEgg
ASRock FM2A75 Pro4-M FM2 AMD A75 (Hudson D3) HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
Memory - NewEgg
Kingston HyperX Black Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model KHX16C9B1BK2/8 - Free Resident Evil-Revelations PC Games
DVD - NewEgg
LG 24X DVD Burner - Bare Drive 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 24X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 24X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM Black SATA Model GH24NS95 - OEM
Drive - Rakutan
Samsung 830 Series 128GB 2.5" SATA III Solid State Drive (SSD)
CPU & GPU - NewEgg
AMD A6-5400K Trinity 3.6GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) Socket FM2 65W Dual-Core Desktop APU (CPU + GPU) with DirectX 11 Graphic AMD Radeon HD 7540D AD540KOKHJBOX