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June 14, 2014 12:28:54 PM

Before you guys ask I do not plan on buying this pc for myself it is for my friend:)  The games he wants to play are,Minecraft League of legands, World of warcraft and Bioshock infinite.

Will this pc be any good for the very cheap price (not including os because he has a Windows 8.1 CD, no Cooler because the apu already comes with a cooler and no GPU because I have selected an APU (CPU+GPU)

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

CPU: AMD A6-6400K 3.9GHz Dual-Core Processor (£39.59 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI A55M-E33 Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard (£31.54 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Corsair XMS 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£51.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500GB 2.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (£29.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Fractal Design Core 1000 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£27.98 @ Dabs)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 430W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£35.74 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£10.84 @ Dabs)
Total: £227.67

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June 14, 2014 12:36:57 PM

It's a great PC, but I'm curious why you ask on behalf of a friend? Why don't he ask himself? I see so many threads that talk about aa friend, and I always wonder...
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June 14, 2014 12:39:31 PM

Karsten75 said:
It's a great PC, but I'm curious why you ask on behalf of a friend? Why don't he ask himself? I see so many threads that talk about aa friend, and I always wonder...
I don't think my friend has a Toms Hardware account. In future I shall ask him to make one as its a very helpful community:)  & Thanks for the feedback.

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June 14, 2014 12:43:56 PM

Lucas Pejica said:
Before you guys ask I do not plan on buying this pc for myself it is for my friend:)  The games he wants to play are,Minecraft League of legands, World of warcraft and Bioshock infinite.

Will this pc be any good for the very cheap price (not including os because he has a Windows 8.1 CD, no Cooler because the apu already comes with a cooler and no GPU because I have selected an APU (CPU+GPU)

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

CPU: AMD A6-6400K 3.9GHz Dual-Core Processor (£39.59 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI A55M-E33 Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard (£31.54 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Corsair XMS 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£51.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500GB 2.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (£29.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Fractal Design Core 1000 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£27.98 @ Dabs)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 430W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£35.74 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£10.84 @ Dabs)
Total: £227.67


It looks decent for the budget, the only thing that I'd change would be a swap to dual channel memory ie 2x4GB sticks of RAM. This increases effective bandwidth which is especially important for APUs. Also I'm not sure about Bioshock infinite but the other games should be fine.
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June 14, 2014 12:45:40 PM

randomhkkid said:
Lucas Pejica said:
Before you guys ask I do not plan on buying this pc for myself it is for my friend:)  The games he wants to play are,Minecraft League of legands, World of warcraft and Bioshock infinite.

Will this pc be any good for the very cheap price (not including os because he has a Windows 8.1 CD, no Cooler because the apu already comes with a cooler and no GPU because I have selected an APU (CPU+GPU)

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

CPU: AMD A6-6400K 3.9GHz Dual-Core Processor (£39.59 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI A55M-E33 Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard (£31.54 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Corsair XMS 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£51.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500GB 2.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (£29.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Fractal Design Core 1000 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£27.98 @ Dabs)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 430W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£35.74 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£10.84 @ Dabs)
Total: £227.67


It looks decent for the budget, the only thing that I'd change would be a swap to dual channel memory ie 2x4GB sticks of RAM. This increases effective bandwidth which is especially important for APUs. Also I'm not sure about Bioshock infinite but the other games should be fine.

Alright thanks.. and also for Bioshock LOW/MED settings be fine? he doesn't plan on playing max otherwise he would have increased the budget.
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June 14, 2014 12:55:06 PM

Lucas Pejica said:
randomhkkid said:
Lucas Pejica said:
Before you guys ask I do not plan on buying this pc for myself it is for my friend:)  The games he wants to play are,Minecraft League of legands, World of warcraft and Bioshock infinite.

Will this pc be any good for the very cheap price (not including os because he has a Windows 8.1 CD, no Cooler because the apu already comes with a cooler and no GPU because I have selected an APU (CPU+GPU)

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

CPU: AMD A6-6400K 3.9GHz Dual-Core Processor (£39.59 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI A55M-E33 Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard (£31.54 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Corsair XMS 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£51.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500GB 2.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (£29.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Fractal Design Core 1000 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£27.98 @ Dabs)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 430W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£35.74 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£10.84 @ Dabs)
Total: £227.67


It looks decent for the budget, the only thing that I'd change would be a swap to dual channel memory ie 2x4GB sticks of RAM. This increases effective bandwidth which is especially important for APUs. Also I'm not sure about Bioshock infinite but the other games should be fine.

Alright thanks.. and also for Bioshock LOW/MED settings be fine? he doesn't plan on playing max otherwise he would have increased the budget.


Here's an article to help you and your friend pick a memory kit http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/memory-bandwidth-sc...

Yes it looks like acording to the article HERE that APU will play Bioshock infinite at ~30 fps on very low an 1600x900

Also you may want to get another cooler because since the APU is unlocked it can be overclocked to increase performance.
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June 14, 2014 12:59:04 PM

randomhkkid said:
Lucas Pejica said:
randomhkkid said:
Lucas Pejica said:
Before you guys ask I do not plan on buying this pc for myself it is for my friend:)  The games he wants to play are,Minecraft League of legands, World of warcraft and Bioshock infinite.

Will this pc be any good for the very cheap price (not including os because he has a Windows 8.1 CD, no Cooler because the apu already comes with a cooler and no GPU because I have selected an APU (CPU+GPU)

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

CPU: AMD A6-6400K 3.9GHz Dual-Core Processor (£39.59 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI A55M-E33 Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard (£31.54 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Corsair XMS 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£51.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500GB 2.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (£29.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Fractal Design Core 1000 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£27.98 @ Dabs)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 430W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£35.74 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£10.84 @ Dabs)
Total: £227.67


It looks decent for the budget, the only thing that I'd change would be a swap to dual channel memory ie 2x4GB sticks of RAM. This increases effective bandwidth which is especially important for APUs. Also I'm not sure about Bioshock infinite but the other games should be fine.

Alright thanks.. and also for Bioshock LOW/MED settings be fine? he doesn't plan on playing max otherwise he would have increased the budget.


Here's an article to help you and your friend pick a memory kit http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/memory-bandwidth-sc...

Yes it looks like acording to the article HERE that APU will play Bioshock infinite at ~30 fps on very low an 1600x900

Also you may want to get another cooler because since the APU is unlocked it can be overclocked to increase performance.


Thanks alot for your help, my friend wont be overclocking as he isn't looking to be playing alot of games apart from the ones I have mentioned. Funny enough my friend is actually using a 1600x900 monitor :D  once again thanks for your help. You can have the solution:) 


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June 14, 2014 9:14:17 PM

Lucas Pejica said:
Before you guys ask I do not plan on buying this pc for myself it is for my friend:)  The games he wants to play are,Minecraft League of legands, World of warcraft and Bioshock infinite.

Will this pc be any good for the very cheap price (not including os because he has a Windows 8.1 CD, no Cooler because the apu already comes with a cooler and no GPU because I have selected an APU (CPU+GPU)

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

CPU: AMD A6-6400K 3.9GHz Dual-Core Processor (£39.59 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI A55M-E33 Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard (£31.54 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Corsair XMS 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£51.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500GB 2.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (£29.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Fractal Design Core 1000 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£27.98 @ Dabs)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 430W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£35.74 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£10.84 @ Dabs)
Total: £227.67

Seems alright for the budget but I would personally get a Seasonic 420W or XFX 450W power supply as they are a lot more quality compared to the Corsair CX line of power supplies.
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