Recommend some parts? FX 8350 build

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Hey,

I'd like a bit of help on how to map out my FX 8350 build please!

I'm on a budget of £600 (980$) and require the following components..

CPU - FX 8350
CPU cooler - is one required? Will be running FX 8350 at stock for the time being..
PSU - not sure what I need, probably 550W?
Motherboard - minimum - 1GB lan, USB3
GPU - minimum - 2GB RAM
Memory - minimum - 16GB RAM

I'm looking to play modern and future games so don't want to slack on the GPU if possible. I'll be tinkering around with VMWare hence the requirement for mutli-core and high RAM.

Any help would be appreciated!
 
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If that is the case, spend the extra on the GPU, better ram wont do anything. Also 8 gb is fine for now, I would choose the R9 280x over the 770 just because of the extra gb of vram since games in the near future will start demanding more vram for games. But its up to you. Also I took off what you didnt need and threw on a Cpu cooler, which is always a good thing if your budget allows it.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core Processor (£137.00 @ Ebuyer)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£23.90 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: ASRock 970 Extreme3 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£60.38...
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Quick build, It can probably be tweaked a little more. Did you prefer Intel or AMD for GPU? Also you are fine with a stock cooler since I doubt your getting into OCing yet.. This is not my best choice in ram but trying to stay close to your budget as possible without using bad/cheap parts. This is as close as i could come.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core Processor (£141.00 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock 970 Extreme3 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£60.38 @ Dabs)
Memory: Kingston 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£92.15 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£62.38 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 760 2GB Video Card (£198.91 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: Zalman Z5 ATX Mid Tower Case (£32.98 @ Ebuyer)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£48.99 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £636.79
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-12-25 00:30 GMT+0000)

Here the build with a R9 270x in case you prefer it:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core Processor (£141.00 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock 970 Extreme3 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£60.38 @ Dabs)
Memory: Kingston 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£92.15 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£62.38 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Asus Radeon R9 270X 2GB Video Card (£167.64 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: Zalman Z5 ATX Mid Tower Case (£32.98 @ Ebuyer)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£48.99 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £605.52
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-12-25 00:33 GMT+0000)
 
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AH88

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Looks good, thanks for the input!

I've just been lucky and was provided with a case this Christmas off my family, so that knocks that from the price straight away! Only thing is that it's Micro ATX and I've really struggled to find a decent AMD Micro ATX motherboard today..

But that's ok as my old case is ATX (but with a micro ATX motherboard for some reason..) so I can pop my old machine into the new case, and my new machine into the old case!.

The motherboard you suggested looks perfect - drooling at the possibility of 32GB RAM expansion and that it supports higher speed RAM, SATA3, etc etc! I think choosing a Motherboard is what I struggle with the most with builds.

Surprised to see how cheap the R9 270X is compared to the GTX 760 - I thought they were roughly on par?

Also I'm fine for storage - so w/o case+storage that gives me an extra £100 to play around with from what you suggested.. I wonder if I could possibly stretch to a GTX 770 or R9 280x? Or would some of that extra £100 be better invested in higher quality RAM?

Thanks again!
 
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If that is the case, spend the extra on the GPU, better ram wont do anything. Also 8 gb is fine for now, I would choose the R9 280x over the 770 just because of the extra gb of vram since games in the near future will start demanding more vram for games. But its up to you. Also I took off what you didnt need and threw on a Cpu cooler, which is always a good thing if your budget allows it.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core Processor (£137.00 @ Ebuyer)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£23.90 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: ASRock 970 Extreme3 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£60.38 @ Dabs)
Memory: Kingston 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£92.15 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 280X 3GB Video Card (£225.60 @ Dabs)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£48.99 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £588.02
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-12-25 23:22 GMT+0000)
 
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