Another PC for Another Friend

dmatthews · Mar 19, 2014

Hi guys! I'm building another PC and I would appreciate it if you guys look over the specification. My friend will need it for gaming, video editing and audio editing. His budget is £850 and he doesn't mind buying from different sources (providing that they are in the UK). Here's the spec:

Motherboard: ASUS Sabertooth 990FX R2.0
CPU: AMD FX-8350 Black Edition - overclocked to 4.3GHz
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 16GB 1600MHz
GPU: Club3D Radeon R9 280X 3GB
HDD: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 7200RPM
PSU: Corsair Builder Series 750W Modular - 80 Plus Bronze
Optical Drive: LiteOn 24x DVD Writer
Case: Corsair 300R

Cheers guys

Onus · Mar 19, 2014

Particularly if this is for professional-level work, you'll want a better PSU than the Corsair "CX;" these are built by CWT using some inferior Samxon capacitors that don't like heat and are known to fail early. I'd recommend a Seasonic-built unit, such as any from XFX (which I believe should be available to your friend). If you need to save some money for that, drop the CPU to a FX-8320; it will likely OC to 4.3GHz (or close) as well.

ModernWarfare · Mar 19, 2014

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor (£105.59 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Phanteks PH-TC12DX_RD 68.5 CFM CPU Cooler (£34.94 @ Scan.co.uk)
Motherboard: ASRock 990FX Extreme3 ATX AM3+/AM3 Motherboard (£72.28 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£69.98 @ Novatech)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£99.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£42.99 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 770 2GB Video Card (£238.04 @ Aria PC)
Case: Antec Three Hundred Two ATX Mid Tower Case (£54.99 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Antec EarthWatts Platinum 650W 80+ Platinum Certified ATX Power Supply (£85.31 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NSB0 DVD/CD Writer (£14.89 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £819.00
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-03-19 19:39 GMT+0000)

ModernWarfare · Mar 19, 2014

you guys are the luckiest people ever everything is so cheap

(((

Mephikun · Mar 19, 2014

I can vouch for that Antec PSU. It's my main PSU, but if I were to choose again I might go for something like XFX. But for the price the Antec is really, really good.

sora · Mar 20, 2014

ModernWarfare :

No it isn't. Have you seen the conversion between USD and GBP? Stuff in the UK is a LOT more than in the US.

Mephikun · Mar 20, 2014

It really isn't cheap.

That build is $1354.54 USD. I wouldn't call that cheap.

ModernWarfare · Mar 20, 2014

i call 4000$ cheap

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