Opinions about this built (with certain doubts)

xivins

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Good afternoon,

I made this built for what will be my new computer and I would like to know your opinions about it in order to improve the result (changing components to achieve better performance, reduce the final cost...). My budget is 550-650€.
I will use the computer to do office tasks, surfing Internet, playing non-demanding games and maybe using AutoCAD in the near future.

- CPU: Intel i5-6500 Skylake
- Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B150-HD3P
- SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 250 Gb
- Case: Severux Sublime X6
- Graphics card: I will use the one integrated in motherboard for the moment . In the future I am going to buy one.

Until here I am quite sure about the components but now I am going to ask you my doubts:

- RAM memory: I have searched some opinions about this four RAM memories and I have found that lots of people say G.Skill are the better ones but I do not understand why... Corsair has the lower timings (13-15-15-28 vs 15-15-15-35), so in my opinion they will be better, won't they? What is your opinion about them?
--> 8 GB (2x4 GB dual channel) G.Skill Ripjaws V Red
--> 8 GB (2x4 GB dual channel) Corsair Vengeance LPX
--> 8 GB (2x4 GB dual channel) Kingston HyperX Fury
--> 8 GB (2x4 GB dual channel) Kingston HyperX Savage

- PSU: I am sure that the Seasonic is not Haswell ready, the other ones I could not find anything about Haswell ready. My question is: Is really worthy buy a PSU Haswell ready? Is there a significant reduce of consumption? If not, what is your opinion about this PSU?
--> Seasonic S12ii 520W
--> XFX TS-Series 550W
--> Super Flower Golden Green HX 550W

I hope to hear your opinions, thank you!

Regards!
 
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memory brand is really arbitrary. They're pretty reliable (has higher life expectancy than the other components in your system). Things that move last shorter (fans, graphics cards, hard drives) than things that don't move (motherboard, cpu, memory). OEM pc's usually have generic brand memory that lasts a lifetime anyways. Do what fits you. I bought corsair vengenance memory 2x4gb back in the day because i thought they were special. It turned out they just had aesthetics and high profile heatsink. The other brands had better offerings now that i looked back on it, so I dont know if i'd pay a premium just for brand nowadays.

seasonic is very reliable in terms of a psu brand. They're like the toyota's in the pc industry, very good...

bboiprfsr

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memory brand is really arbitrary. They're pretty reliable (has higher life expectancy than the other components in your system). Things that move last shorter (fans, graphics cards, hard drives) than things that don't move (motherboard, cpu, memory). OEM pc's usually have generic brand memory that lasts a lifetime anyways. Do what fits you. I bought corsair vengenance memory 2x4gb back in the day because i thought they were special. It turned out they just had aesthetics and high profile heatsink. The other brands had better offerings now that i looked back on it, so I dont know if i'd pay a premium just for brand nowadays.

seasonic is very reliable in terms of a psu brand. They're like the toyota's in the pc industry, very good manufacturing. Try to plan the psu you buy along with the requirements of your expected type of graphics card. If it's high end, i'd bump it up to 600w. If it's mainstream/low-end, then 500w is fine. cheers!
 
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