- Jun 2, 2014
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For the past few days I've been planning and buying parts for an extremely tight budget build, now this is the first time in my 10+ years in computers that I'll have a fast one, well a much faster one compared to my current one anyway, now the parts i have so far are as follows:
Intel core 2 quad Q9300 2.5Ghz.
5gb DDR2 800Mhz RAM.
An OEM HP motherboard (only a few years old, i think).
400gb SATA Hard drive.
And so far that's it, BUT i have come to possibly thee hardest decision you'll ever have to make with a computer and that's the GPU.
Now at the moment i have a Palit GeForce® GT 520 2GB, which my dad is giving me but the only problem is, it's as people know, a low performing card and isn't a very good card card for gaming.
So because of that I'll need to get another card but i don't know which one. So far I've selected around about 4 cards that are in my budget:
Asus AMD Radeon HD 6670 1gb DDR5
GIGABYTE AMD R7 240 OC 2GB.
Gainward GeForce GT 640 1gb DDR5
A used GeForce GTX550Ti.
Now to the PSU, now i only have or will have about £55 left from the build and with that i could ideally do with a faster PSU as my current one is only a 250w but if i get one i won't have enough to spend on a decent graphics card.
So my question is.... Do you think it would be better if i, didn't get a PSU but got graphics card or should i get a PSU and leave the card till i had enough?.
I also feel i should mention that I'm an Android App developer and will also be using the computer for some minor 3D stuff as i want to create my first ever game.
Thank you.
Ryan
Intel core 2 quad Q9300 2.5Ghz.
5gb DDR2 800Mhz RAM.
An OEM HP motherboard (only a few years old, i think).
400gb SATA Hard drive.
And so far that's it, BUT i have come to possibly thee hardest decision you'll ever have to make with a computer and that's the GPU.
Now at the moment i have a Palit GeForce® GT 520 2GB, which my dad is giving me but the only problem is, it's as people know, a low performing card and isn't a very good card card for gaming.
So because of that I'll need to get another card but i don't know which one. So far I've selected around about 4 cards that are in my budget:
Asus AMD Radeon HD 6670 1gb DDR5
GIGABYTE AMD R7 240 OC 2GB.
Gainward GeForce GT 640 1gb DDR5
A used GeForce GTX550Ti.
Now to the PSU, now i only have or will have about £55 left from the build and with that i could ideally do with a faster PSU as my current one is only a 250w but if i get one i won't have enough to spend on a decent graphics card.
So my question is.... Do you think it would be better if i, didn't get a PSU but got graphics card or should i get a PSU and leave the card till i had enough?.
I also feel i should mention that I'm an Android App developer and will also be using the computer for some minor 3D stuff as i want to create my first ever game.
Thank you.
Ryan
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