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Alpehue

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Hi People

I am building a budget gaming pc for the misses, and would really like to hear your opinion?. I would like to keep the price under £600.

What i found so far.

SAPPHIRE RADEON R9 280 3GB GDDR5 UEFI PCI-E 2XDVI HDMI DP DUAL-X BOOST IN CTLR

INTEL Core I5-4460 3,2GHz LGA1150 6M CPU

MSI H97M-E35 S1150 E35 M-ATX DDR3 VGA DVI HDMI SATA 6GB/S IN CTLR

KINGSTON HyperX 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 CL10

WESTERN DIGITAL Blue Mobile HDD 1TB SATA 6Gb/s

CORSAIR Corsair Carbide Series SPEC-01 RED LED

CORSAIR PSU 750W CX Modular Builder Series, 80+ Bronze

Price: £588 / 943$
 
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MEM - High latency being CL10. For DDR3-1600, look for CL9 modules. The ones below are low latency being DDR3-1866 CL9.
HD - The Seagate will outperform the WD Blue.
PSU - No CX / CS / Builder series from Corsair. Stick with XFX or Seasonic.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£131.94 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock Fatal1ty H97 Killer ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£55.99 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill Ares Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£65.88 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Crucial MX100 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£51.00 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£35.94 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 280X 3GB Black Edition Double Dissipation Video Card (£185.99 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: NZXT Source 210 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£30.25 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: XFX 750W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£61.75 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £618.74
 
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Looks a pretty solid build, you could probably save some money on the psu 750w is a little bit of overkill, whilst I appreciate that maximum efficiency is achieved at about 50% load. Will you be overclocking your ram? To achieve 1600 as very few will automatically do it straight out of the box. If not go for less speed but tighter timings which will save you a few more £s. The truth is at this kind of price range there aren't massive savings to be had. Best advice I can give is to shop around, a lot. It also depends what games you are likely to be playing in it.
 
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Changing to Seagate harddrive was a smart choice, will save me enough to upgade to the ASROCK motherboard instead.

Regarding the power supply, im thinking about changing it for a XFX TS Series P1550SXXB9 550W as i can get it quite cheap, would that be sufficient?

And im not quite sure what games she will be playing yet, the whole purpose of getting her a gaming PC is to get her away from her facebook/bubble shooter games.
 
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The XFX 550w is a great PSU. That is perfectly fine for a single GPU system and will leave you plenty of headroom for growth. Enjoy that build!
 
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I searched a bit more, and changed a few things. Any comments on the following build? or should i stick with the first one?

SAPPHIRE  RADEON R9 280 3GB GDDR5 UEFI PCI-E 2XDVI HDMI DP DUAL-X BOOST IN CTLR (11230-00-20G)
AMD  AMD Athlon X4 860K 4MB_ 95W_ FM2_ (ej grafik) (AD860KXBJABOX)
MSI  A88X-G45 GAMING A88X RG SA (7900-001R)
KINGSTON  HyperX 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 CL10 (HX316C10FW/8)
CORSAIR  HDSSD 2,5 256GB Force LX (CSSD-F256GBLX)
SEAGATE  Barracuda 7200 1TB HDD SATA (ST1000DM003)
CORSAIR  Corsair Carbide Series SPEC-01 RED LED (CC-9011050-WW)
XFX  550W 80+ BRONZE CERTIFIED WIRE (P1550SXXB9)

Total price: £545 / 873$
 
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Memory performance is effected by the following factors, in order from most to least important:

1. Channel interleave
2. Rank interleave
3. Speed
4. Timings

Currently, you have selected a single channel of dual rank memory. In otherwords, you have the rank interleave taken care of, but not the channel interleave (which has the largest impact on performance). The Speed and timings are fine for a stock clocked system.

See if you can find a ballistix or redline or blackline 2x4GB kit instead.
 
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I.E.... Those 1600MHz DDR3 CL10 modules are "slow" because of the high latency (CL10). Look for DDR3-1600 modules with a latency no higher than CL9.
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/parts/memory/#s=301600&t=11&Z=8192002&L=40,90&sort=a9

 
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Alpehue

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Ahh, i wasent aware of the ram thing, I really appreciate the help and feedback guys.

I was searching for Ram blocks, i was looking at
G.Skill Ares Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory vs G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory

I got access to both of them for more or less the same price, should i always go for 1866 over 1600??

The "setup" as it looks now, changing the parts you guys suggested allowed me to upgrade the graphic card, and still keep it under 500. Any other suggestions?

AMD  AMD Athlon X4 860K 4MB_ 95W_ FM2_
MSI  A88X-G45 GAMING A88X RG SA
G.SKILL  G.skill Ares Low Profile - DDR3 1866 MHz - 2 x 4GB
MSI RADEON R9 290 GAMING G4 PCI-E TWINFROZR 2X DVI HDMI DP CTLR
SEAGATE  Barracuda 7200 1TB HDD SATA
CORSAIR  Corsair Carbide Series SPEC-01 RED LED
XFX  550W 80+ BRONZE CERTIFIED WIRE

Total price: £498


 
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