Budget Prodigy Build

CoolVengeance · Apr 30, 2014

I plan to do a build in the prodigy and I was just looking for some criticism. I do plan to upgrade to the i5 eventually and a beefier graphics card but for right now, this is what I am going for.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3Bvik
Any help on how to make it better would be appreciated!
Thanks XD

PsychoGamingLemon · Apr 30, 2014

CoolVengeance :

That's a good build, however I'd recommend an SSD.

HiTechObsessed · Apr 30, 2014

Assuming you're going to be adding an unlocked i5, that's a great build. All good, quality parts, with plenty of upgradeability to any single GPU you can think of

Looks like a good build to me.

geofelt · Apr 30, 2014

+1 on using a SSD at least for the os and a few games. 120gb is minimum. With 240gb, you can defer on the hard drive until you need more storage space.

I like the build, but if you can wait a bit to see what haswell refresh and the Pentium K offers, do so.
Z97 based motherboards are due out soon, and they seem to have a number of good ITX offerings.

HiTechObsessed · Apr 30, 2014

SSD is definitely not something for a budget oriented build. It will do absolutely nothing for gaming. SSDs are phenomenal upgrades, but for someone trying to save money upfront, it is one of the first things you drop.

With a 120GB SSD (which is already more expensive than a regular 1TB HDD), you're only going to have room for a couple games and programs after Windows is there, and doesn't give you much room at all for any kind of mass storage.

geofelt · Apr 30, 2014

HiTechObsessed :

I might disagree.

a 120gb ssd has the room for the os and a handful of games. I ran that way for a long time.
240gb has been plenty since then.
If you start with a ssd, it is easy to add a hard drive later if you need bulk storage.
If you start with a hard drive, your ssd upgrade later is more difficult.
Either you are looking at a clean os and game install, or, you need a ssd large enough to allow you to clone the hard drive to it.
And... here is an interesting chart from Samsung showing fps drops with a hard drive that does not happen with a ssd.
No details, and consider the motivation of the source.
http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/SSD/global/html/why/forGamer.html

A Samsung evo 240gb ssd is currently $150 or so. sales abound.

HiTechObsessed · Apr 30, 2014

geofelt :

Yeah, but that $100 could go into a better GPU, which will greatly affect gaming, whereas an SSD won't. No material gaming performance other than load times has been noted between SSD and HDD gaming that I've seen, except for this which is, like you said, vague and coming from someone who makes SSDs lol

And upgrading to an SSD is very easy, no matter the size of the hard drive.

I personally love SSDs, and won't ever run a system without one, but for the strict budget-minded builds, they are just not important enough to justify. In budget builds, an extra $100 can mean multiple steps up in GPU performance.

Death Prodigy · May 8, 2014

Prodigy build?
Well, then you definitely need to get this:
https://www.digitalstormonline.com/configurator.asp?id=961476

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