need help with my build (gaming and rendering etc)

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Can someone build me a 600 pound gaming PC?! No ssds please and an Intel build please! I will be gaming and playing games like bf hardline GTA V etc. I will be streaming and video editing/rendering/3d rendering and photoshop work aswell! And if possible can it be cased in the nzxt h440 IR nzxt s340 please :D thank you!!!! :)
 
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Those cases will take away too much from the budget. Honestly, I would suggest upping the budget a bit, if at all possible.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£205.82 @ More Computers)
Motherboard: ASRock H81M-DGS R2.0 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£35.03 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston Fury Black Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£50.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£34.45 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 290 4GB TWIN FROZR Video Card (£224.99 @ Novatech)
Case: Fractal Design Core 1000...

logainofhades

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Those cases will take away too much from the budget. Honestly, I would suggest upping the budget a bit, if at all possible.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£205.82 @ More Computers)
Motherboard: ASRock H81M-DGS R2.0 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£35.03 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston Fury Black Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£50.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£34.45 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 290 4GB TWIN FROZR Video Card (£224.99 @ Novatech)
Case: Fractal Design Core 1000 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£19.97 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£49.76 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £621.01
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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What do you need? Do you need OS and/or monitor?

I just put together a 600 pound build and your needs exceed your budget. You will end up with a GTX750ti or 270, at best with an Intel build (i5 - H97 motherboard, 1Tb drive, 500-ish watt PSU) 16Gb of RAM, GPU, case, OS, Monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
 

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Yes, with OS, best I really could do is a 270x. For the non gaming stuff, Xeon is a better choice.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£205.82 @ More Computers)
Motherboard: ASRock H81M-DGS R2.0 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£35.03 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston Fury Black Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£50.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£34.45 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 270X 2GB Dual-X Video Card (£129.95 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Fractal Design Core 1000 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£19.97 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£49.76 @ Amazon UK)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£74.20 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £600.17
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-02-16 21:47 GMT+0000

 
Here is probably the most you can squeeze out of it:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£143.99 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: ASRock H97 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£63.63 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston Fury Black Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£50.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£34.45 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 290 4GB TWIN FROZR Video Card (£224.99 @ Novatech)
Case: NZXT H440 (Blue/Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£84.99 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£45.49 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £648.53
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-02-16 21:51 GMT+0000


It is slightly more inclined towards gaming due to the r9 290 and i5 4460. To save cost buy a cheaper case or get an R9 280x or GTX 760.
 


He probably thought he meant $600 USD rather than £600 GBP.
 


 

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Why are these all Intel CPU's? Xeon's are not budget friendly. Yes they are much much better than AMD for rendering but AMD can hold its own for Rendering on budget, especially for a low budget build. If you really wanna save more and your looking at doing rendering and such just get a good AMD 8000 series. More cores and MHz = better render times.
 
This sort of thing PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor (£110.22 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: ASRock 970 Extreme3 R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£61.16 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Kingston Fury Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£56.12 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£34.45 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 280 3GB TWIN FROZR Video Card (£149.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Corsair SPEC-03 Red ATX Mid Tower Case (£45.80 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: Antec TruePower Classic 650W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply (£59.98 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£10.50 @ CCL Computers)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£74.20 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £602.42
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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Is certainly and option, but I like the future of the Intel build better.

The OP ASKED for Intel.
 

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Thats where he needs to be educated on an Intel Workstation kind of PC is not gonna work at 600... Its really hard to build a good rendering PC at that price point unless your using an AMD CPU. What you have suggest is about the best hes gonna get and even that is pretty low powered for what he is asking...
 


I basically said that in my first post. I await a response from the OP. We don't even know about OS yet, and that changes everything, one way or the other.

 

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I missed your first post but i up voted it for you
 

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Except that the Xeon would still beat an FX, with a healthy overclock. Overclocking requires more money, which negates the budget argument, very quickly. I could pair the Xeon with a cheap H81 board, and it would perform, within any margin of error, the same as if I had it in a high end Z97 board. No need for expensive aftermarket cooling either.

FX would need a more expensive board and cooling, to achieve anywhere close to the same amount of performance. FX is 2+yr old tech, on a dead platform. Don't get me wrong, I own an FX 8320, myself. Microcenter's $100 deal a couple black fridays ago was too good to pass up. I needed something really cheap, for an extra system, and it was cheaper than getting an i3.
 

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I'm not saying FX is better, i'm just stating if he wants to stick in that price point and get something for Rendering purpose and some gaming Getting an FX 8000 Series Chip is your only choice unless you really want to downgrade on the GPU, because if your using a GPU for rendering the best out for the price is still GTX 780ti...
 

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Ok sorry for not posting in this thread :) I do not need a n operating system IR periferals!! Thanks!! And AMD is a big no as I can't stand my old non built by me PC which had an AMD fx 4100 and apparently I've heard AMD can lag in games ?! No?
 
Great. That helps, and no peripherals too.

I like logainofhades' Xeon system although you need more budget. Rendering needs more cores and more memory, and games need a really good GPU, You cannot have both for your budget. 8GTb of memory is good for games and we can use a board that will allow you to go to 16 Gb as a later upgrade.

Xeon + motherboard is around 240 quid, 8350 + motherboard + cooler and PSU premium is around 40 quid cheaper which can go into GPU. FX8000 will do fine. Lots of people use the, but there is no real future.
 

logainofhades

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Same basic setup, as my first build, but I went to 8x1gb, so you have room to later add another 8gb, for 16gb.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£205.82 @ More Computers)
Motherboard: ASRock H81M-DGS R2.0 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£35.03 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston Fury Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£51.27 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£34.45 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 290 4GB TWIN FROZR Video Card (£224.99 @ Novatech)
Case: Fractal Design Core 1000 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£19.97 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£49.76 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £621.29
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-02-18 17:24 GMT+0000

If you absolutely cannot up your budget, then this would be my choice.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£205.82 @ More Computers)
Motherboard: ASRock H81M-DGS R2.0 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£35.03 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill Value 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£73.01 @ Dabs)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£34.45 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 280X 3GB TWIN FROZR Video Card (£175.54 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: Fractal Design Core 1000 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£19.97 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£49.76 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £593.58
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-02-18 17:27 GMT+0000

 
Yes. The 1x8 saves a bit. I'd still want a more modern motherboard (but I'm not stuck with your budget) logainofhades as stripped everything to the bone and it's not quite right form. It's the best build that you can afford unless you try a FX8350 build with some overclocking.

Everything points to the hunt for more money.
 

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I agree with you. I would say at least another 150 pounds more, for better motherboard, psu, case, and 2tb hdd.