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October 9, 2014 11:43:11 PM

Hey guys, I just finished gathering up a rig and I would like you to tell me if its good or it should be different.... the price isn't high its about 270-320£ , it is used like 65% simple home stuff/work and 35% gaming... here it is :
SSD Kingston V300 60GB read 450MB/s write 450MB/s SATA3
Hard Disk 3.5" Toshiba DT01ACA 500GB 7200RPM 32MB SATA3
Case iTek Shadow Midi Tower PSU 500W mATX Black
RAM DDR3 G.Skill Aegis F3-1333C9S-4GIS 1333MHz 4GB (1x4GB) 9-9-9-24-2N 1.5V
VGA XFX AMD Radeon R7 260X Core 1075MHz Memory GDDR5 6400MHz 2GB DVI HDMI DP
Motherboard Asus M5A78L-M LX3 Socket AM3+ AMD 760G DDR3 SATA2 USB2.0 MicroATX
CPU AMD FX-6300 6-Core Vishera 3.5GHz Socket AM3+ 14MB 95W Boxed
Heatsink CPU Arctic Cooling Alpine 64 Plus AMD FM1/AM3+/AM3/AM2+/AM2/
thank you for your answers in advance

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October 9, 2014 11:51:10 PM

1. Bad motherboard choice, the 760G chipset is not designed for FX chips and are known to have issues with 6 and 8 core CPUs. Get a 970 chipset.

2. Bad choice in SSD, failure rates on those are high after Kingston swapped the NAND and controller that they use on it to save cost.

3. REALLY bad power supply choice, NEVER get a shoddy PSU.

Now what is you complete budget?
Do you need Windows?
What resolution is your monitor?
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October 10, 2014 12:01:25 AM

Agree with all that Novuake said and also I would like to add that this rig is weak. It would become "outdated" very fast and I suggest you to take your time collecting some more money to build a better system.
But if you're on a really tight budget then you have to remove SSD, also go with 1TB HDD with 64mb cache (smth. like WD Caviar Blue or Seagate Barracuda) it would cost near the same as this 500GB HDD. Also I would suggest you a Haswell Pentium G3258 because it would perform same/better when overclocked and also you would be able to upgrade to an i5/i7 on this socket in the nearest future.

All the best wishesh ;) 
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October 10, 2014 12:46:11 AM

My budget is 300£, I don't need win, my res is 1080p
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October 10, 2014 12:56:59 AM

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

CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor (£49.57 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Zalman CNPS5X Performa CPU Cooler (£14.99 @ Novatech)
Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£30.97 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: G.Skill Value 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£27.33 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£35.94 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R7 260X 2GB Core Edition Video Card (£76.14 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: Zalman Z5 ATX Mid Tower Case (£29.95 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£46.93 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £311.82
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-10-10 08:56 BST+0100

This would be better then FX6300 when OC'ed, also this chip not so hot as AMD-one. And ofcourse that would kill any APU out there. Also I have to say that intel CPU's also consumpt less power. Think about it... good rig for the money!
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October 10, 2014 1:45:34 AM

That budget is not much, I would suggest getting an APU based system that will allow you to get a decent CPU with decent integrated graphics.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD A10-7700K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£99.54 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock FM2A88X Extreme4+ ATX FM2+ Motherboard (£60.96 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2133 Memory (£70.71 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£35.94 @ Aria PC)
Case: Thermaltake Versa H22 ATX Mid Tower Case (£27.23 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£46.09 @ Aria PC)
Total: £340.47
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-10-10 09:44 BST+0100

I would do that and then add a R9 270x / GTX760 or better graphics card later.
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October 10, 2014 1:52:46 AM

Novuake said:


I would do that and then add a R9 270x / GTX760 or better graphics card later.


GTX 760 or better with an APU? Seems to me that APU would be the bottleneck out there. Not the best solution for gaming in my opinion.
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October 10, 2014 2:00:18 AM

niko24 said:
Novuake said:


I would do that and then add a R9 270x / GTX760 or better graphics card later.


GTX 760 or better with an APU? Seems to me that APU would be the bottleneck out there. Not the best solution for gaming in my opinion.


Nah, the A10 7xxx APUs are decent CPU, would not really be a bottleneck, the Pentium wins or equals in single threaded games mostly, but in multithreaded games the A10 will win.

Not to mention it has a R9 250 class graphics chip already integrated.

But yeah, either option is solid. I just mentioned an alternative that I would do for decent gaming performance now with some decent upgrading options.

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October 10, 2014 2:06:12 AM

Oc'ed Pentium would be equal to i3 4xxx, so I think that would be a smarter choice. Anyway it's good for ts to have variety. No offence :) 
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