Is this a good build?

[minato120]

hi, i am getting a new pc for my birthday this month so i asked my mom if i could buy piece by piece and assemble it. i want a gaming pc that can specifically run battlefield 3 at ultra at least 40 fps (60 fps is what im shooting for ) and heres what i came up with:

AMD A6-3500 2.1GHz Triple-Core

Asus F1A55-M LE Micro ATX FM1

Corsair XMS3 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600

Seagate Barracuda 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM

Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 2GB

NZXT Gamma Classic (Black) ATX Mid Tower

Corsair 500W ATX12V

Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer

 

[malbluff]

Battlefield 3 specifically favours nVidia graphics. What is you budget for those components and where are you (country), and can possibly come up with something better.
I take it you already have monitor & other stuff. What is resolution of your monitor.

 

[TheBigTroll]

id hold off until the Trinity comes out. the highest end chip is to have the graphics power of a gts450 which is awesome for onboard

 

[minato120]

Battlefield 3 specifically favours nVidia graphics. What is you budget for those components and where are you (country), and can possibly come up with something better.
I take it you already have monitor & other stuff. What is resolution of your monitor.

the budget is $600 but i'm trying to keep as low as i can
the resolution is 1366x768
also, i plan on upgrading in the future

 

[Deemo13]

You can do a better build than that for $600

I don't know if you need Windows or not, but here's what I got for both.

With Windows:

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/j4O1
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/j4O1/by_merchant/
Benchmarks: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/j4O1/benchmarks/

CPU: Intel Core i3-3220 3.3GHz Dual-Core Processor ($129.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock B75M-DGS Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($61.97 @ Newegg)
Memory: Corsair 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory ($17.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($58.88 @ NCIX US)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon HD 7850 1GB Video Card ($176.97 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 430W 80 PLUS Certified ATX12V Power Supply ($27.99 @ NCIX US)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer ($14.99 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (64-bit) ($90.37 @ Amazon)
Total: $579.15
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)

Without Windows:

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/j4Pk
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/j4Pk/by_merchant/
Benchmarks: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/j4Pk/benchmarks/

CPU: Intel Core i5-3450 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor ($179.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: ASRock H77M Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($69.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Corsair 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory ($17.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($58.88 @ NCIX US)
Video Card: HIS Radeon HD 7870 2GB Video Card ($199.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 500W 80 PLUS Certified ATX12V Power Supply ($39.99 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer ($14.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $581.82
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)

 

[minato120]

You can do a better build than that for $600

I don't know if you need Windows or not, but here's what I got for both.

With Windows:

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/j4O1
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/j4O1/by_merchant/
Benchmarks: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/j4O1/benchmarks/

CPU: Intel Core i3-3220 3.3GHz Dual-Core Processor ($129.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock B75M-DGS Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($61.97 @ Newegg)
Memory: Corsair 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory ($17.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($58.88 @ NCIX US)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon HD 7850 1GB Video Card ($176.97 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 430W 80 PLUS Certified ATX12V Power Supply ($27.99 @ NCIX US)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer ($14.99 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (64-bit) ($90.37 @ Amazon)
Total: $579.15
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)

Without Windows:

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/j4Pk
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/j4Pk/by_merchant/
Benchmarks: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/j4Pk/benchmarks/

CPU: Intel Core i5-3450 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor ($179.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: ASRock H77M Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($69.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Corsair 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory ($17.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($58.88 @ NCIX US)
Video Card: HIS Radeon HD 7870 2GB Video Card ($199.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 500W 80 PLUS Certified ATX12V Power Supply ($39.99 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer ($14.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $581.82
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)

thanks a lot i will look into, i still want to know if my build is good enough for battlefield 3 ultra at least 40 fps

 

[TheBigTroll]

more like medium - low at 40 fps

 

[TheBigTroll]

you need at least a 6870 or a gtx560 to run ultra

 

[Deemo13]

No, your build might not pull ultra. The 6950 is fast (I had one) and it ran it on ultra.

BUT your resolution on your monitor is low, meaning you are going to end up having a CPU bottleneck since the A6 is not very quick.

That is why I listed quicker Intel processors to get the job done in my 2 builds.

 

[minato120]

No, your build might not pull ultra. The 6950 is fast (I had one) and it ran it on ultra.

BUT your resolution on your monitor is low, meaning you are going to end up having a CPU bottleneck since the A6 is not very quick.

That is why I listed quicker Intel processors to get the job done in my 2 builds.

so if i buy a monitor with higher resolution, will it do the job?

 

[Deemo13]

No, it would be slower. The builds I posted would be much quicker in BF3 than the one you posted.

Have you bought these parts already?

 

[malbluff]

If you use i3-3220 and GTX 660, you will get a lot more than 60fps, on Ultra. You'd even get 60 fps, on Ultra, with 1920x1080 resolution, provided you don't have to have the highest "bells an' whistles"

 

[minato120]

No, it would be slower. The builds I posted would be much quicker in BF3 than the one you posted.

Have you bought these parts already?

nop not yet i wont buy them until i am completely sure of the pieces

 

[TheBigTroll]

yeah with 600 dollars you wont ever play bf3 at ultra

 

[Deemo13]

At least not with your first build.

Try one of mine.

 

[malbluff]

To really handle Ultra at 1920x1080, you need at least GTX660Ti, which is outside your budget. The GTX 660 is the card that comes nearest, for BF3. You would have to use an i3, which means foregoing overclocking, to get to around $600, assumig you don't need OS, as well. If you need OS, you'd be around the $700 mark.
With i3-3220 + GTX 660 @ 1920x1080 Ultra FXAA-high you'd get around 70fps average. It's only the highest settings, you might struggle with. Will that do you?

 

[TheBigTroll]

my friend got 45fps with ultra presets on a 6870 in multi-player. he got it with a e2220 775 chip

 

[malbluff]

Try this:

CPU: Intel i3-3220 @ $129.99 from Newegg
Mobo: ASRock Z75 Pro3 @ $84.99 from Newegg
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 4GB(2x2GB) 1600MHz DDR3 @ $24.99 from Newegg
HDD: Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB 7200rpm @ $58.88 from NCIX
Case: NZXT Gamma Cl Bl @ $39.99 from Newegg
PSU: Corsair CX500 @ $39.99 from Newegg
Opt Dr: Lite-On iHAS224-06 @ $19.99 from SuperBiis
GPU: MSI GTX660 2GB @ $219.99 from Newegg

That comes to $619
There are things it would be nice to have better, like RAM and faster storage, but that's the nearest I could get to true ultra, without going well over budget, and there are ways to upgrade, as and when you can.