How good is this build in terms of price vs performance?

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TheMasterPlan

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Jul 29, 2013
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Case:
Corsair Graphite Series 230T ATX Compact Mid Tower Windowed Gaming Computer Case with Red LED Fan - Black
Price: £72.95

Graphics Card:
Sapphire 11199-20-20G AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 2GB GDDR5 Graphics Card (HDMI, DVI-I, 2 x Mini Display Port, PCI Express 3.0, 256-Bit, AMD CrossFireX Multi-GPU Technology)
by SAPPHIRE
Price: £183.37


Ram:
Corsair CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600 Mhz CL9 XMP Performance Desktop Memory Kit Black
Price: £65.72

Power Supply Unit:
Corsair CX750 Builder Series CX 750W ATX/EPS 80 PLUS Bronze PSU
Price: £67.32

Motherboard:
Asus M5A99X Evo R2.0 Motherboard (AMD 990X/SB950, 4x DDR3, S-ATA 600, ATX, PCI-Express 2.0, USB 3.0, Network iControl, Windows 8 Ready, Socket AM3+)
Price: £95.98

Central Processing Unit:
AMD FX8350 Black Edition 8 Core Processor (4.0/4.2GHz, 8MB Level 3 Cache, 8MB Level 2 Cache, Socket AM3+, 125W, Retail Boxed)
Price: £152.87


CPU Cooler:
Corsair Hydro H75 Liquid Cooler
Price: £59.99

Hard Drive:
Seagate Barracuda 3.5 inch 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB 6GB/S Internal SATA Drive
Price: £52.95

Thank you in advance!




 
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HiTechObsessed

HiTechObsessed

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You can go quite a bit cheaper and better performance with higher quality parts if that's what you're going for:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor (£105.59 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U12S 55.0 CFM CPU Cooler (£49.34 @ Scan.co.uk)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-990XA-UD3 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£71.99 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Kingston 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£58.79 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£51.98 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 280X 3GB Video Card (£227.99 @ Aria PC)
Case: Corsair Graphite Series 230T Black ATX Mid Tower Case (£53.76 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: XFX 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£73.32 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £692.76
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-03-25 13:00 GMT+0000)
 
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sora

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Oct 30, 2013
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Pretty good but I'd get a XFX 750W PSU. What site are you buying those parts off of?
 
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CTurbo

CTurbo

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This is well over £100 cheaper and it would be much better.

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3gD40
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3gD40/by_merchant/
Benchmarks: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3gD40/benchmarks/

CPU: Intel Core i5-4570 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£137.03 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock H87 Pro4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£58.37 @ Dabs)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£59.68 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£51.98 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 770 2GB Video Card (£238.52 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: Corsair 300R ATX Mid Tower Case (£59.99 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£35.94 @ Scan.co.uk)
Total: £641.51
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-03-26 05:58 GMT+0000)


and for the record, for just £8 more than your build, you could switch the GTX770 in my build for a GTX780.
 
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