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Hi Community!
ot:First-time user here so feel free to move this question somewhere or give any meta-advice.
Since my roommate is quite the PC-enthusiast and just bought a new, very silent Case along with custom watercooling there is a case and power supply just sitting in our living-room. I am looking to filling it with some life to make it a gaming machine.
I would like to play titles like Battlefield 4, The Heist, Rainbow Six: Siege with 60 fps (I won't buy a 144 fps monitor) and 1080p (i guess?)
Option 1:
I thought about buying a ASRock 990FX Extreme6 mainboard (saw a good offer)
and propably a amd fx-6300 (or smth like that) which i want to overclock to get the best performance/price ratio.
I think the MoBo would be good because it has enough slots for PCIe Cards, has a high RAM frequency, enough sATA connections and looks like it could get rid of excessive heat (it has these metal things on the bridges?)
I think the CPU is good because it has six cores and an OK frquency, plus i think it can be easily overclocked (btw i dont know why im so fascinated by overclocking, if it is useless to do, please tell me)
Combo would be around 170 €.
Q1: Can this setup compete/ Can it run games well and Q1.1: Is it worth to spend a few (20-40) extra € for an even better AMD like the Octacore ones w/ higher base speeds?
Another good offer i saw was a used i7 4820K for 150€.
Looking for an affordable mainboard with the 2011 socket was a real pain in the rear, since they are expensive and you stumble across quite many 2011-3 mainboards which seem to be much cheaper and much more widespread.
Q2: Is it worth the while trying to snipe a used mainboard off of ebay? The price for new ones is around 300€ which would explode my budget (I look to invest ~500€)
Q2.1:How much better is the intel cpu in general (my roomie said smth like 30-40% better performance @ the same clock speeds) and which would i go for for a cheap gaming setup.
Also i stumbled across some intel xeon E5somethingsomething processors with 4 cores and OK clock speeds for around 25€. Ichecked for mainboards and they are also very cheap with the option of mounting 2 cpus. Should i look into any xeon-setups besides the old e3 ones? (which aren't exactly cheap and require, again, rare or expensive mainboards)
You can see I focus on CPU+Mainboard first. My personal preference is the AMD setup since it's very available.
My second priority would be some DDR3 RAM, (Q3) I think 8GB would be enough?
Q3.1 is it important to get close to the max supported bus frequencies of the used mainboard?
Q3.2 I heard about overclocking RAM too, what do you do when you overclock RAM?
I would get some SSD to store my system and some games, I guess i will go for a small one first ~250 GB for 60-70€
Which leaves me with just a graphics card missing, am I right? I will have time until Christmas for that problem though. I guess it makes more sense to figure that out later, since the CPU will propably be a bottleneck for the GPU, correct me if I'm wrong.
Also i feel pretty good about not spending too much thoughton Monitor and Mousem Key etc, I guess I will snipe it along the way.
Basically I'm looking for some advice considering CPU choice and a general direction on what I should look for considering Graphic Cards.
ot:First-time user here so feel free to move this question somewhere or give any meta-advice.
Since my roommate is quite the PC-enthusiast and just bought a new, very silent Case along with custom watercooling there is a case and power supply just sitting in our living-room. I am looking to filling it with some life to make it a gaming machine.
I would like to play titles like Battlefield 4, The Heist, Rainbow Six: Siege with 60 fps (I won't buy a 144 fps monitor) and 1080p (i guess?)
Option 1:
I thought about buying a ASRock 990FX Extreme6 mainboard (saw a good offer)
and propably a amd fx-6300 (or smth like that) which i want to overclock to get the best performance/price ratio.
I think the MoBo would be good because it has enough slots for PCIe Cards, has a high RAM frequency, enough sATA connections and looks like it could get rid of excessive heat (it has these metal things on the bridges?)
I think the CPU is good because it has six cores and an OK frquency, plus i think it can be easily overclocked (btw i dont know why im so fascinated by overclocking, if it is useless to do, please tell me)
Combo would be around 170 €.
Q1: Can this setup compete/ Can it run games well and Q1.1: Is it worth to spend a few (20-40) extra € for an even better AMD like the Octacore ones w/ higher base speeds?
Another good offer i saw was a used i7 4820K for 150€.
Looking for an affordable mainboard with the 2011 socket was a real pain in the rear, since they are expensive and you stumble across quite many 2011-3 mainboards which seem to be much cheaper and much more widespread.
Q2: Is it worth the while trying to snipe a used mainboard off of ebay? The price for new ones is around 300€ which would explode my budget (I look to invest ~500€)
Q2.1:How much better is the intel cpu in general (my roomie said smth like 30-40% better performance @ the same clock speeds) and which would i go for for a cheap gaming setup.
Also i stumbled across some intel xeon E5somethingsomething processors with 4 cores and OK clock speeds for around 25€. Ichecked for mainboards and they are also very cheap with the option of mounting 2 cpus. Should i look into any xeon-setups besides the old e3 ones? (which aren't exactly cheap and require, again, rare or expensive mainboards)
You can see I focus on CPU+Mainboard first. My personal preference is the AMD setup since it's very available.
My second priority would be some DDR3 RAM, (Q3) I think 8GB would be enough?
Q3.1 is it important to get close to the max supported bus frequencies of the used mainboard?
Q3.2 I heard about overclocking RAM too, what do you do when you overclock RAM?
I would get some SSD to store my system and some games, I guess i will go for a small one first ~250 GB for 60-70€
Which leaves me with just a graphics card missing, am I right? I will have time until Christmas for that problem though. I guess it makes more sense to figure that out later, since the CPU will propably be a bottleneck for the GPU, correct me if I'm wrong.
Also i feel pretty good about not spending too much thoughton Monitor and Mousem Key etc, I guess I will snipe it along the way.
Basically I'm looking for some advice considering CPU choice and a general direction on what I should look for considering Graphic Cards.
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