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I have been considering building a pc on a console budget and as such come up with a build worth £402. As I am very new to pc building I was hoping you could review my system.
Case - Novatech Defender 100
Motherboard - Asus M5A78L-M/USB3
CPU - AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50Ghz
GPU - SAPPHIRE AMD R9 280
RAM - G-Skill 4GB Ripjaws X DDR3 1333 (X2)
PSU - SilverStone Strider Essential Series 500W ST50F-ES
Hardrive - WD 1TB 3.5 inch Internal Hard Drive
I already have a monitor, keyboard and mouse.
Thank you for your help
Case - Novatech Defender 100
Motherboard - Asus M5A78L-M/USB3
CPU - AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50Ghz
GPU - SAPPHIRE AMD R9 280
RAM - G-Skill 4GB Ripjaws X DDR3 1333 (X2)
PSU - SilverStone Strider Essential Series 500W ST50F-ES
Hardrive - WD 1TB 3.5 inch Internal Hard Drive
I already have a monitor, keyboard and mouse.
Thank you for your help
Henry Oliver
October 13, 2014 7:28:51 AM
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Twigman
October 13, 2014 7:24:28 AM
Amazon has some Corsair Vengeance for £65~ now, 1x8gb or 2x4gb
http://www.amazon.co.uk/corsair-vengeance-8gb/s?ie=UTF8...
Twig
http://www.amazon.co.uk/corsair-vengeance-8gb/s?ie=UTF8...
Twig
delellod123
October 13, 2014 7:20:59 AM
Henry Oliver
October 13, 2014 7:16:14 AM
AceAttorney
October 13, 2014 6:28:54 AM
delellod123
October 13, 2014 6:25:46 AM
Newbbuilder11
October 13, 2014 6:24:34 AM
Henry Oliver said:
I have been considering building a pc on a console budget and as such come up with a build worth £402. As I am very new to pc building I was hoping you could review my system. Case - Novatech Defender 100
Motherboard - Asus M5A78L-M/USB3
CPU - AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50Ghz
GPU - SAPPHIRE AMD R9 280
RAM - G-Skill 4GB Ripjaws X DDR3 1333 (X2)
PSU - SilverStone Strider Essential Series 500W ST50F-ES
Hardrive - WD 1TB 3.5 inch Internal Hard Drive
I already have a monitor, keyboard and mouse.
Thank you for your help
I would get a faster speed of Ram. Something that is 1600 mhz is what you need in ram speeds as 1333 is rather slow nowadays,
Everything seems in order, but I would recommend something like this.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor ($69.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: ASRock Z97M Anniversary Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($94.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($79.99 @ B&H)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($53.98 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 280X 3GB Dual-X Video Card ($263.98 @ Newegg)
Case: Corsair SPEC-02 ATX Mid Tower Case ($59.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($29.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $652.90
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-10-13 09:24 EDT-0400
That is ScatterVolt's console killer and will get you farther than a AMD based System.
I would recommend a higher end PSU though,
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
Power Supply: XFX 650W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($74.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $74.99
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-10-13 09:29 EDT-0400
That XFX is higher tier than that Corsair PSU.
So for a total of 547.94 Euro. This will have lot's of upgrade room and will beat any console/amd build.
The board as well
Supports 5th Generation Intel® Core™ i7/i5/i3/Pentium®/Celeron® Processors (Socket 1150)
So Broadwell cores will be supported with this system.
Twigman
October 13, 2014 6:22:34 AM
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