Is this build good for gaming at 1600 x 900 p

Michael John Scerri · Jul 15, 2015

BTW 1080 p hurts my eyes lol

Parts :

8GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3 PC1600 11-11-11-30 Dual Channel Memory

500W Corsair Builder Series CX 500 Plus Bronze Power Supply

Asus H81M-PLUS Intel H81 S1150/DDR3/SATA3 MicroATX Motherboard

Zalman Z3 Plus White Mid Tower USB 3.0 ATX Case w/o PSU

Intel Core i3-4170 Haswell 3.7GHz S1150 CPU

2GB MSI Twin Frozr 5 GDDR5 GTX 960 PCIe 3.0 Gaming Video Card

19.5" Asus VS207NE LED Black Monitor

120GB Samsung 850 EVO 2.5" 6.8mm SATA3 Solid State Drive

StarChief · Jul 15, 2015

AtomicGPU · Jul 15, 2015

Yeah, I'd say that's a good computer for gaming, especially at a lower resolution like 1600 x 900.

LuckyTheLadyBug · Jul 15, 2015

No, power supply is crap.

What is your budget, I think it can be made better.

also, what country do you live in?

Michael John Scerri · Jul 15, 2015

I live in malta we use euro i have 850 euro budget with monitor and ssd no hdd needed i cant by from newegg or amazon or for a 60 dollor motherboard ill be charged 400 euro shipping so check out this local website a check out what they have scanmalta.com i can only buy from here BTW their under computing , component and youl see the stuff there and another BTW malta is an island under italys main island sicily as big as new york

Michael John Scerri · Jul 15, 2015

Im confused i heard that that psu is good if not using sli or crossfire its fine?

Onus · Jul 15, 2015

It is mostly good, except for that PSU, as mentioned. A bunch of us have been tearing the CX lineup a new one lately in one of the PSU threads, because they're made with inferior capacitors that don't last. They test well when new, but fail early.
If possible, I'd also try to get DDR3-1600 with a CAS latency of 9.

filippi · Jul 15, 2015

Michael John Scerri :

This PSU should have been good: Corsair is usually a great brand. Corsair sells some great parts.
Unfortunately 500W Corsair Builder is not one of those.

But its not a dreadful psu either. Just its below average.

imho its good enough for a low power build like yours. If you are in a low budget.

Michael John Scerri · Jul 15, 2015

the memory is ddr3-1600 and any better psu will go over budget and i already am 8 euro over budget.

Im kinda cornered all i can to is get a gainward gtx 960 instead of msi and get a 600 w cx

Michael John Scerri · Jul 15, 2015

or i can also get a cheaper case and get an 800 w silverston strider essential but i fell in love with zalman z pl and it has really good air cooling

Onus · Jul 15, 2015

DDR3-1600 with a CAS latency of 11 is not great RAM; it is usually easy to find DDR3-1600 with CAS9, which will be faster.
Your system doesn't need a bigger PSU, it needs a better one; the Corsair CX simply doesn't hold up in a gaming rig. Try to find a PSU made by Seasonic (their own, XFX, some Antec, EVGA GS), Delta (some Antec), or Super Flower (Rosewill Capstone, Kingwin Lazer, EVGA G2 and B2). Even 450W is enough for your rig, and bigger than 550W may be costing more than you need to spend.

madmatt30 · Jul 15, 2015

If you're struggling on budget the CX 500 will do the job - it can suffer problems when pushed above 85% but an i3 + 960 is barely going to push it above 50% load.

Onus · Jul 15, 2015

I would have thought that about the CX, but some of the recent comments I'm seeing on it suggests even that may not be the case. Since I would not buy one myself, I cannot in clear conscience recommend that someone else do so.

Michael John Scerri · Jul 15, 2015

Thank you a lot guys just one last thing. Is the samsung 850 evo 120 gb enough to store windows 8.1/10 google chrome, and u torrent and all the programd excluding games movies picture and music

madmatt30 · Jul 15, 2015

Asong as you manage it sensibly mate then yes - disable hibernate , disable automatic backup/restore (or assign it to another drive),do the same with the memory pagefile - I'm assuming you ate using a secondary traditional drive here even though one isn't listed??

ben001 · Jul 15, 2015

Just get a SeaSonic G Series 550-Watt by spending 20 more euro (If you can), rest you will be just fine.

Michael John Scerri · Jul 15, 2015

Yea i will be using a 400gb laptop hdd. And to answer ben001 i can only buy from this website scanmalta.com i live in malta shipping for a psu from amazon 150 euro.

ben001 · Jul 15, 2015

Michael John Scerri :

Well, Corsair CX model is just good for your setup but increasing it to 600W can be affordable . It cost €79.95 at scanmalta.com, you can go for it.

Michael John Scerri · Jul 16, 2015

Will the 600 w psu make a difference i am going to upgrade to an i7 next year i was going to buy An 800w silverstone essential strider with it.

Onus · Jul 16, 2015

The Corsair "CX" was just demoted to Tier-4 on the tiered list of PSU recommendations. I wouldn't buy one. The PSU is not the place to go cheap. Since your monitor is a lower resolution, IMHO it would make more sense to weaken the graphics card (even though this is a gamer) in order to get a better PSU. A GTX750Ti or R9 270X will do well enough at that resolution.

ben001 · Jul 16, 2015

Michael John Scerri :

I generally don't suggest corsair base model psu, I don't know which model of core i7 you are going for but for only gaming i5 sounds pretty nice compare to price n performance. What is your exact purpose & tell me your current setup ?.

Is this build good for gaming at 1600 x 900 p

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