Budget build for gaming/general use

morpheus1

morpheus1

morpheus1

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Hi all, another newbie request here - my last PC has died, and a couple of days research has convinced me that I should go for a self build.

It will be used for general internet/office stuff, a bit of photo editing, and probably the odd game or two in the future.

Budget is about £400 though I'll need an OS which I think will take me over this. There have been a few threads at this level (including one today, just before I got my account verified!), so I have pulled together a spec from various posters (many thanks already for this, folks!)

1 x AMD A10-5800K Black Edition 3.80GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD580KWOHJBOX) £95.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A85XM-D3H AMD A85X Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 micro ATX Motherboard £61.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD10EZEX - OEM ** Single Platter ** HDD £59.99
1 x NZXT Source 210 Elite Midi Tower Case - Black £39.98
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020046-UK) £39.95
GeIL EVO Leggera 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (GEL38GB2133C11DC) £37.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
£366.98 so far..


Now could I please ask your thoughts on the following:

1. Does this look like a good combination? Can you see any obvious improvements (without affecting cost too drastically) and have I missed anything out?

2. Am I right in thinking that Windows 7 (64 bit) would be the best way to go other than heading down the 'free trial of Windows 8'?

3. Do I need anything else in order to put this together - thermal paste? Static wrist band?

4. I have BT broadband with an ethernet connection as well as wireless network - this should fit somewhere, right?

5. Cases - are they all fairly similar at this price point? I am hoping that the one listed keeps life easy for me!


Ok, that's about it I think, many thanks for reading, and many thanks if you can help!
 
1) It looks nice. You have fast RAM which Trinity APU's love, the board is good and has SATAIII+USB3.0

2) Win7 is fine, but if you want to use a free copy of Win8 for a short while then try it.

3) The board comes with SATA data cables, the PSU has the power cables, the processor comes with a heatsink which has thermal paste.

4) Hopefully, there is an Ethernet port on the board.

5) Pretty much, the case looks like it has some basic cable management.
 
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Not a bad spec at all fella :)

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A10-5800K Black Edition 3.80GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD580KWOHJBOX) £95.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A85X-D3H AMD A85X Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £64.99
1 x Zalman Z9 USB 3.0 Midi Tower Case - Black £54.98
1 x **B Grade** Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (S (HD-257-SE) £45.00
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020058-UK) £39.98
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV38G160C9K) £29.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £362.03 (includes shipping : £11.75).



ATX sized mobo, Case is packed with features for the price. Modular PSU to make your life easy for cable management and improve airflow. RAM is 1600Mhz but overclocks well (good for over 2000mhz), as it's on offer I'd grab it at that price.
 
Never seen any reviews of that RAM doing over 2GHz, any links? (most reviews I seen already use the faster kits) might buy a set.
 
zakblood said:
1 x XFX Pro 450W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £39.95




better psu, and save's you a few pennies, so win win
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Good shout but out of stock..


honosuseri said:
Not a bad spec at all fella :)

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A10-5800K Black Edition 3.80GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD580KWOHJBOX) £95.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A85X-D3H AMD A85X Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £64.99
1 x Zalman Z9 USB 3.0 Midi Tower Case - Black £54.98
1 x **B Grade** Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (S (HD-257-SE) £45.00
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020058-UK) £39.98
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV38G160C9K) £29.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £362.03 (includes shipping : £11.75).



ATX sized mobo, Case is packed with features for the price. Modular PSU to make your life easy for cable management and improve airflow. RAM is 1600Mhz but overclocks well (good for over 2000mhz), as it's on offer I'd grab it at that price.
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This is what id do.

Would also like to see reveiws of the OC ability of that RAM.
 
site doesn't seem to update pages as much as it used to, sometime when says it's out of stock, eta due etc, it's in when you phone, done it a few times, only to be told, yes we have some :)

ETA: Overdue, will be in by the time he orders, check later today and see :)
 
**No Competitor price hinting ** you can build a Phenom-II based machine with an HD6870, which is plenty of GPU power.

AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition 3.4GHz Socket AM3 6MB L3 Cache Cache 125W Retail Boxed Processor

MSI 760GM-E51 760G Socket AM3 DVI HDMI Out 8 Channel Audio mATX Motherboard

Coolermaster Elite 330 Case With Coolermaster elite Power 500W PSU

Liteon Ihas124 24x Dvd±rw (dual ±r)/ram Sata Drive (internal Black)

Seagate 1TB Barracuda 3.5" SATA-III Hard Drive - 7200RPM 64MB Cache

PowerColor HD 6870 PCS+ 1GB GDDR5 Dual DVI Dual Mini DisplayPort HDMI PCI-E Graphics Card

Corsair 8GB DDR3 1600MHz Vengeance Memory Module CL10
 
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