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January 9, 2014 12:31:59 AM

I have just under an £800 budget and I'm looking for something to run DayZ or BF3 at preferably high settings. First gaming PC I will be getting so need opinions or even better options. So here is the specs:
CPU: AMD A8-6500 Quad Core APU (4.1GHz) & Radeon™ HD 8570D Graphics
Motherboard: ASUS® A88XM-PLUS: (M-ATX, DDR3, USB 3.0, 6Gb/s)
RAM: 8GB KINGSTON HYPERX BEAST DUAL-DDR3 2400MHz X.M.P (2 x 4GB KIT)
GPU: 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 650 - DVI, mHDMI, VGA - 3D Vision Ready
Storage: 1TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD1003FZEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
PSU: CORSAIR 350W VS SERIES™ VS-350 POWER SUPPLY
So plus all the peripherals and OS it comes to £715.
Any answers would be appreciated thanks.

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a b 4 Gaming
January 9, 2014 1:01:49 AM

The build you decided is quite weak. Won't let you play BF 3 on high settings.

But this one would -

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor (£109.31 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: ASRock 990FX Extreme3 ATX AM3+/AM3 Motherboard (£76.99 @ Dabs)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (4 x 2GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£57.48 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£71.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£43.99 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 770 2GB Video Card (£254.99 @ Novatech)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case (£47.98 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£53.67 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHDS118-04 DVD/CD Drive (£10.78 @ Scan.co.uk)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (32-bit) (£69.65 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £796.83
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-01-09 08:59 GMT+0000)

You wasted too much money on unnecessary things and compromised on those which made huge difference.

FX 8320 is much faster than A8 - 6500 and GTX 770 leaves GTX 650 in dust (Its more than twice as fast as it).
With this build you can max out most of the games you would ever want to buy.

As far as me choosing Windows 7 over Windows 8 matters, Windows 7 is far easier to use and is far less complicated. Don't make the same mistake I made (I bought Win 8 instead).
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January 9, 2014 8:24:48 AM

luckiest charm said:
The build you decided is quite weak. Won't let you play BF 3 on high settings.

But this one would -

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor (£109.31 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: ASRock 990FX Extreme3 ATX AM3+/AM3 Motherboard (£76.99 @ Dabs)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (4 x 2GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£57.48 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£71.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£43.99 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 770 2GB Video Card (£254.99 @ Novatech)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case (£47.98 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£53.67 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHDS118-04 DVD/CD Drive (£10.78 @ Scan.co.uk)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (32-bit) (£69.65 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £796.83
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-01-09 08:59 GMT+0000)

You wasted too much money on unnecessary things and compromised on those which made huge difference.

FX 8320 is much faster than A8 - 6500 and GTX 770 leaves GTX 650 in dust (Its more than twice as fast as it).
With this build you can max out most of the games you would ever want to buy.

As far as me choosing Windows 7 over Windows 8 matters, Windows 7 is far easier to use and is far less complicated. Don't make the same mistake I made (I bought Win 8 instead).


Thanks although i also needed peripherals with the money so would it be possible to drop the SSD without losing too much performance? Not too bothered about load times tbh. Also probably the optical drive since i will just be using steam.

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a b 4 Gaming
January 9, 2014 9:57:19 AM

SSD is just for faster booting and for quick opening of things if you use it for caching. It has absolutely no impact on gaming and frame rates. If you don't mind waiting for 5 more seconds for windows to load each time you start your PC, then drop the SSD. I myself do not have an SSD because I prioritized more important things like a good CPU in my limited budget. :) 

Personally I do not recommend dropping DVD drive because of motherboard drivers installation, the ability to install any software you want, installing any never version of Windows, or re-installing / repairing windows, etc.
The use of a DVD drive is not limited to gaming but its a highly useful component of a system because almost all softwares, movies, etc are available in DVD format, should you need them later on...

But at the end of the day, final choice is yours. I can just give my opinion depending on my experience. :) 

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January 9, 2014 3:02:41 PM

luckiest charm said:
SSD is just for faster booting and for quick opening of things if you use it for caching. It has absolutely no impact on gaming and frame rates. If you don't mind waiting for 5 more seconds for windows to load each time you start your PC, then drop the SSD. I myself do not have an SSD because I prioritized more important things like a good CPU in my limited budget. :) 

Personally I do not recommend dropping DVD drive because of motherboard drivers installation, the ability to install any software you want, installing any never version of Windows, or re-installing / repairing windows, etc.
The use of a DVD drive is not limited to gaming but its a highly useful component of a system because almost all softwares, movies, etc are available in DVD format, should you need them later on...

But at the end of the day, final choice is yours. I can just give my opinion depending on my experience. :) 



Alright thanks for the help and advice, im just going to go with your parts and drop the SSD.

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February 8, 2014 6:49:24 PM

luckiest charm said:
SSD is just for faster booting and for quick opening of things if you use it for caching. It has absolutely no impact on gaming and frame rates. If you don't mind waiting for 5 more seconds for windows to load each time you start your PC, then drop the SSD. I myself do not have an SSD because I prioritized more important things like a good CPU in my limited budget. :) 

Personally I do not recommend dropping DVD drive because of motherboard drivers installation, the ability to install any software you want, installing any never version of Windows, or re-installing / repairing windows, etc.
The use of a DVD drive is not limited to gaming but its a highly useful component of a system because almost all softwares, movies, etc are available in DVD format, should you need them later on...

But at the end of the day, final choice is yours. I can just give my opinion depending on my experience. :) 



Hey it's me again, got all my parts and have assembled the pc. Went to switch it on and everything appears to be powered and running fine however my monitor is getting no signal from any input so was just wondering if you had any advice as to how i could fix this problem. Really looking forward to begin gaming on this pc as i've tried a lot of things so far to fix it and none have worked :( 

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a b 4 Gaming
February 8, 2014 9:23:39 PM

Tried changing your display connection cable? (HDMI, DVI, DisplayPort, VGA, etc)

Most of the time its the faulty cable which results in issues of that particular type, no display but GPU fan running I mean.
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February 9, 2014 5:55:46 AM

luckiest charm said:
Tried changing your display connection cable? (HDMI, DVI, DisplayPort, VGA, etc)

Most of the time its the faulty cable which results in issues of that particular type, no display but GPU fan running I mean.


Yeah my monitor only has DVI and D-SUB i tried both and also tried to use the pc with my tv but to no avail. That makes me think it is the pc that has the problem.

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a b 4 Gaming
February 9, 2014 7:53:02 AM

Yes you are right then. It definitely is the PC that is the problem.

Remove the Graphics card and try to boot PC with integrated graphics (the display connector of motherboard). If it works then its your GPU that is faulty, change it. If not then your GPU is fine and we need to get deeper to find the issue.
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February 9, 2014 1:39:00 PM

luckiest charm said:
Yes you are right then. It definitely is the PC that is the problem.

Remove the Graphics card and try to boot PC with integrated graphics (the display connector of motherboard). If it works then its your GPU that is faulty, change it. If not then your GPU is fine and we need to get deeper to find the issue.


I don't believe the mobo actually has any integrated graphics...

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a b 4 Gaming
February 9, 2014 11:37:38 PM

There is supposed to be a VGA graphics controller if absolutely no graphics card is in there. Not sure for AMD FX series but Intel has HD inbuilt series / GMAs for its CPUs.
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