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May 10, 2014 8:14:50 PM

Greetings, I am about ready to make my purchase of these parts to build my first budget gaming pc and have altered the parts due to other posts on this forum. So hopefully this is the final product. I do not intend to OC except the GPU if need be. Tell me what you think:

Case: Rosewill Challenger
CPU: Fx 6300
GPU: Sapphire Dual-X R9 270
MOBO: Gig GA-970A-UD3P
Storage: Barracuda 1 TB
PSU: XFX TS Series 550W
Ram: Ripjaws 1600 8GB
OS: Win 8
Asus DRW/CD

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a c 466 4 Gaming
May 10, 2014 8:44:27 PM

Looks good to me. Should be a solid build.
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May 10, 2014 8:58:12 PM

Telacaster said:
Greetings, I am about ready to make my purchase of these parts to build my first budget gaming pc and have altered the parts due to other posts on this forum. So hopefully this is the final product. I do not intend to OC except the GPU if need be. Tell me what you think:

Case: Rosewill Challenger
CPU: Fx 6300
GPU: Sapphire Dual-X R9 270
MOBO: Gig GA-970A-UD3P
Storage: Barracuda 1 TB
PSU: XFX TS Series 550W
Ram: Ripjaws 1600 8GB
OS: Win 8
Asus DRW/CD
Looks good. Btw what kind of games are you going to playing? And at what resolution and setting do you plan to play at?

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May 10, 2014 9:03:29 PM

Steel_Nugget said:
Telacaster said:
Greetings, I am about ready to make my purchase of these parts to build my first budget gaming pc and have altered the parts due to other posts on this forum. So hopefully this is the final product. I do not intend to OC except the GPU if need be. Tell me what you think:

Case: Rosewill Challenger
CPU: Fx 6300
GPU: Sapphire Dual-X R9 270
MOBO: Gig GA-970A-UD3P
Storage: Barracuda 1 TB
PSU: XFX TS Series 550W
Ram: Ripjaws 1600 8GB
OS: Win 8
Asus DRW/CD
Looks good. Btw what kind of games are you going to playing? And at what resolution and setting do you plan to play at?

I will plan on playing 1080p for now until prices come down to upgrade resolution. Most of my games will be mom's, rpgs, rts, but I will also play some shooters like bioshock. I imagine the xfx 550w is good enough for the top end GPU's?


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May 10, 2014 9:18:09 PM

Telacaster said:
Steel_Nugget said:
Telacaster said:
Greetings, I am about ready to make my purchase of these parts to build my first budget gaming pc and have altered the parts due to other posts on this forum. So hopefully this is the final product. I do not intend to OC except the GPU if need be. Tell me what you think:

Case: Rosewill Challenger
CPU: Fx 6300
GPU: Sapphire Dual-X R9 270
MOBO: Gig GA-970A-UD3P
Storage: Barracuda 1 TB
PSU: XFX TS Series 550W
Ram: Ripjaws 1600 8GB
OS: Win 8
Asus DRW/CD
Looks good. Btw what kind of games are you going to playing? And at what resolution and setting do you plan to play at?

I will plan on playing 1080p for now until prices come down to upgrade resolution. Most of my games will be mom's, rpgs, rts, but I will also play some shooters like bioshock. I imagine the xfx 550w is good enough for the top end GPU's?


For those types of games it should run just fine. For higher end GPUs on Nvidias side the GTX 770, GTX 780, and GTX 780 Ti Nvidia recommends a 600w PSU but the recommendations are always higher then needed. Like on my secondary PC I have a HD 7750 that recommends a 400w PSU, I have it running on a 300w PSU with a FX 6100. For my primary PC I have a GTX 670 FTW 4gb which recommends a 550w PSU, I have a 500w PSU. Since that PSU has 90% efficiency I bet it would run high end GPUs fine.

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a c 466 4 Gaming
May 10, 2014 9:21:21 PM

XFX uses Seasonic as their OEM, so that XFX unit is VERY high quality. It would have no issues running something like a gtx780 or an r9 280x.
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May 10, 2014 9:23:50 PM

Thats good to know, I might get the Seasonic 620W, just in case for future GPU upgrades since its only an extra $10. Also, I have never over clocked anything, so is it easy to OC the sapphire 270. I was debating if I should get a 280x, but perhaps its better to get a mid-range now and another mid-range in a couple years. What do y'all think?
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a c 466 4 Gaming
May 10, 2014 9:25:49 PM

Honestly overclocking GPUs is not very profitable. You may get 3-4fps more out of it. It is not worth the extra heat generally.
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May 10, 2014 9:28:52 PM

Telacaster said:
Thats good to know, I might get the Seasonic 620W, just in case for future GPU upgrades since its only an extra $10. Also, I have never over clocked anything, so is it easy to OC the sapphire 270. I was debating if I should get a 280x, but perhaps its better to get a mid-range now and another mid-range in a couple years. What do y'all think?
I personally get higher end parts to max out games like BF but for the games you play it should be fine to get mid range GPUs. For OCing a GPU its very easy ( I've never OCed a CPU) Get a program like MSI afterburner the just increase the Core little by little and run stress test to see if you system crashes or you see artifacts then you lower the core to where its stable, then move to the memory. I'd watch a video before though just to see it for your self.

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a c 466 4 Gaming
May 10, 2014 9:30:30 PM

Steel_Nugget said:
Telacaster said:
Thats good to know, I might get the Seasonic 620W, just in case for future GPU upgrades since its only an extra $10. Also, I have never over clocked anything, so is it easy to OC the sapphire 270. I was debating if I should get a 280x, but perhaps its better to get a mid-range now and another mid-range in a couple years. What do y'all think?
I personally get higher end parts to max out games like BF but for the games you play it should be fine to get mid range GPUs. For OCing a GPU its very easy ( I've never OCed a CPU) Get a program like MSI afterburner the just increase the Core little by little and run stress test to see if you system crashes or you see artifacts then you lower the core to where its stable, then move to the memory. I'd watch a video before though just to see it for your self.



You also need to adjust voltage limit and the actual voltage in addition to the memory and core clocks. Again, overclocking GPUs isn't going to get you some crazy results.
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May 10, 2014 9:35:57 PM

tiny voices said:
Steel_Nugget said:
Telacaster said:
Thats good to know, I might get the Seasonic 620W, just in case for future GPU upgrades since its only an extra $10. Also, I have never over clocked anything, so is it easy to OC the sapphire 270. I was debating if I should get a 280x, but perhaps its better to get a mid-range now and another mid-range in a couple years. What do y'all think?
I personally get higher end parts to max out games like BF but for the games you play it should be fine to get mid range GPUs. For OCing a GPU its very easy ( I've never OCed a CPU) Get a program like MSI afterburner the just increase the Core little by little and run stress test to see if you system crashes or you see artifacts then you lower the core to where its stable, then move to the memory. I'd watch a video before though just to see it for your self.



You also need to adjust voltage limit and the actual voltage in addition to the memory and core clocks. Again, overclocking GPUs isn't going to get you some crazy results.
You don't need to increase voltage limits, it just might not OC as much, but you a lot of times have already hit the limit. Btw when OCing my GPU the heat isn't increased that much for me.

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a c 466 4 Gaming
May 10, 2014 9:38:38 PM

Honestly, did you get any real performance gains that you can actually see without a FPS counter? I'm pretty sure the answer is know. IF you want REAL results you need to bump the voltage up and often times flash the BIOS of the card. This is much more than "beginner overclocking" and to be 100% honest I would just leave that card stock. Any tiny gains you get from just changing the core clock will not even be noticeable.
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May 10, 2014 9:53:26 PM

tiny voices said:
Honestly, did you get any real performance gains that you can actually see without a FPS counter? I'm pretty sure the answer is know. IF you want REAL results you need to bump the voltage up and often times flash the BIOS of the card. This is much more than "beginner overclocking" and to be 100% honest I would just leave that card stock. Any tiny gains you get from just changing the core clock will not even be noticeable.
I see maybe 5-10 FPS increases but no without a counter you can't really see a difference. The time I do see a difference is when you are at 30-40 FPS in a game so when you OC you will have less drops into the 20 and 30 FPS zone. So yes only OC if the GPU is struggling or to get that 60 FPS.

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