£1000 gaming pc

[bartek457]

I tried it my self.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus HD 7950 DirectCU II TOP V2 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £269.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8350 Black Edition 4.00GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £179.99
1 x XSPC RayStorm 750 RX240 WaterCooling Kit £178.99
1 x NZXT Phantom 630 High Performance Modular Full Tower Case - Black £159.95
1 x ASRock 990FX Extreme3 AMD 990FX (Socket AM3+) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £83.99
1 x Plextor M5S 128GB Solid State Drive - (PX-128M5S) £82.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD20EARX) HDD £79.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Beast 16GB (4x4GB) PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Quad Channel Kit (KHX16C9T3K4/16X) £79.99
1 x OcUK Crusade 950W Dual-Rail High Efficiency '80 Plus' Power Supply £69.98
1 x Creative Sound Blaster Z High Performance Gaming Sound Card - OEM (30SB150200000) £53.99
1 x Samsung SH-224BB/BEBE 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £20.99
Total : £1,278.54 (includes shipping : £14.75).



Would it work?
Is there anything to change to make it better but not change the price or possibly make it lower but the same standard?

 

[stulid]

The PSU isnt great, try and stick to a trusted model that has reviews to back up the quality.

I will just leave this FX8350 vs 3570K comparison here - http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/697?vs=701

Also 16GB of RAM is not necessary, a 8GB dual channel kit will be fine.

 

[Bacon?]

For a gaming PC you want an i5.

Stulids build looks much better for the money

 

[lee32uk]

I agree with everyone that an i5 build is the way to go, but here is an Amd build anyway.

Changed the power supply for one that won't explode Changed the gpu as the one you had takes up 3 slots. Added a faster SSD. Changed the ram for 2x8GB sticks, and changed the soundcard to the Asus Xonar which gets good reviews. I don't know anything about watercooling so i have left your original choice in the build.

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI HD 7950 Twin Frozr III Boost Edition 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £239.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8350 Black Edition 4.00GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £179.99
1 x XSPC RayStorm 750 RX240 WaterCooling Kit £178.99
1 x NZXT Phantom 630 High Performance Modular Full Tower Case - Black £159.95
1 x Silverstone Strider Plus 850W Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply (SST-ST85F-P) £116.99
1 x Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 AMD 990FX (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £113.99
1 x Plextor M5 Pro 128GB Extreme Series Solid State Drive - (PX-128M5P) £99.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £72.98
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel kit (PV316G160C9K) £59.99
1 x Asus Xonar DG 5.1 PCI Sound Card with built in Headphone Amp - OEM £22.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £1,280.50 (includes shipping : £14.75).




If you remove the Amd chip and motherboard and put these in its place you have an i5 build, and save £1 in the process

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £179.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £112.99
Total : £304.38 (includes shipping : £9.50).

 

[zakblood]

I tried it my self.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus HD 7950 DirectCU II TOP V2 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £269.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8350 Black Edition 4.00GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £179.99
1 x XSPC RayStorm 750 RX240 WaterCooling Kit £178.99
1 x NZXT Phantom 630 High Performance Modular Full Tower Case - Black £159.95
1 x ASRock 990FX Extreme3 AMD 990FX (Socket AM3+) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £83.99
1 x Plextor M5S 128GB Solid State Drive - (PX-128M5S) £82.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD20EARX) HDD £79.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Beast 16GB (4x4GB) PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Quad Channel Kit (KHX16C9T3K4/16X) £79.99
1 x OcUK Crusade 950W Dual-Rail High Efficiency '80 Plus' Power Supply £69.98
1 x Creative Sound Blaster Z High Performance Gaming Sound Card - OEM (30SB150200000) £53.99
1 x Samsung SH-224BB/BEBE 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £20.99
Total : £1,278.54 (includes shipping : £14.75).



Would it work?
Is there anything to change to make it better but not change the price or possibly make it lower but the same standard?

yes

but you really need to read the advice above, as its good advice tbh

if in the end you go with yours, enjoy but the psu is over kill and there are better ones out there.

hard drive is good make, but being green, means low power, low spin speed so not the quickest, red is for raid/enterprise etc, so longer life and mostly higher price, blue is for quality and reliability but again not speed, black is for speed with WD

ram can be better added in 8 gb chips as well, sell on better, plus if you want more you can fit more in, i went 2 x 4 for price only, not speed or add on value later etc, it's a choice, good luck

 

[bartek457]

So intel i5 3570k is better?

 

[stulid]

So intel i5 3570k is better?

I posted in link in post#22 showing the 8350 and 3570K at stock speeds against each other in a series of tests, the gaming results is what you are most interested in.