Budget AMD build.

Lazder said:
non K version are not overclockable.
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Half and half, Celeron/Pentium/i3 chips ar locked, non-K series i5/7's are partially locked, you can OC them by up to 400MHz over their max turbo (plus whatever you can get out of the BCLK) so for the i5 3570 non-K its a max of 4.2-4.3GHz depending what you do with the BCLK, not exactly something to write home about, although it could be enough to outperform an overclocked FX-6300 maybe...
 
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Ok spotting the intel fanboys is easy. Thanks to everyone who decided that a £176 CPU was going to be better than a £100 CPU, I think I figured that out long ago, and believe me if I had £170 for a CPU I'd get a 3570k, but I will probably game about 3-4h a week inbetween family/work/life so I can't justify the extra monies.

6300 it is as I want to O/C and Intel isn't on my radar at the moment. Thanks for the extra ideas of SSD's and other peripherals I will take them into consideration.

JoshTheViking
 
JoshTheViking said:
Ok spotting the intel fanboys is easy. Thanks to everyone who decided that a £176 CPU was going to be better than a £100 CPU, I think I figured that out long ago, and believe me if I had £170 for a CPU I'd get a 3570k, but I will probably game about 3-4h a week inbetween family/work/life so I can't justify the extra monies.

6300 it is as I want to O/C and Intel isn't on my radar at the moment. Thanks for the extra ideas of SSD's and other peripherals I will take them into consideration.

JoshTheViking
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6300 is a good cpu, you won't be unhappy. my two cents is if you can stretch the budget at all an 8320 would be good as well
 
JoshTheViking said:
Ok spotting the intel fanboys is easy. Thanks to everyone who decided that a £176 CPU was going to be better than a £100 CPU, I think I figured that out long ago, and believe me if I had £170 for a CPU I'd get a 3570k, but I will probably game about 3-4h a week inbetween family/work/life so I can't justify the extra monies.
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I think your missing what they were saying, they weren't drawing budget comparisons between the FX-6300 and i5 3570K, they were drawing comparisons between the FX-6300 with the motherboard you specified and an after-market cooler (needed for over clocking) versus the i5 with a decent board and stock cooler, and pointing out that there's so little difference in the total price that its well worth the upgrade to the i5.

You can't really say "Please feel free to suggest different parts, etc etc" then complain when people highlight improvements.
 
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Some tweak's to Snips' AMD spec:

YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS HD 7850 IceQ X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H785QN2G2M) with Tomb Raider & Bioshock PC Games £155.99
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TD250BW) ** Cash Back Promo ** £139.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £104.99
1 x ASRock 990FX Extreme3 AMD 990FX (Socket AM3+) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £90.98
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 500w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020059-UK) £54.98
1 x Avexir Core Blue Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16000904G-2CW) - Blue Light £40.00
1 x Thermalright True Spirit 120 REV A (BW) Performance CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £24.98
1 x Zalman T1 Mini Tower Case - Black £19.99
Total : £644.51 (includes shipping : £10.50).



I'd swap the 60gb boot drive and secondary storage for a 240gb SSD for both, better for gaming.

And the keyboard and mouse are minor details.
 
pandem0nium said:
Some tweak's to Snips' AMD spec:

YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS HD 7850 IceQ X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H785QN2G2M) with Tomb Raider & Bioshock PC Games £155.99
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TD250BW) ** Cash Back Promo ** £139.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £104.99
1 x ASRock 990FX Extreme3 AMD 990FX (Socket AM3+) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £90.98
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 500w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020059-UK) £54.98
1 x Avexir Core Blue Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16000904G-2CW) - Blue Light £40.00
1 x Thermalright True Spirit 120 REV A (BW) Performance CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £24.98
1 x Zalman T1 Mini Tower Case - Black £19.99
Total : £644.51 (includes shipping : £10.50).



I'd swap the 60gb boot drive and secondary storage for a 240gb SSD for both, better for gaming.

And the keyboard and mouse are minor details.
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Case is matx/mitx, board is atx. Really like the build though and the case is nice, plain and simple any matx boards?
 
Wouldn't run only an ssd as they are still too expensive for their size. Having the hard disk is a useful fallback, plus you can backup the contents of the ssd onto it.

YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS HD 7850 IceQ X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H785QN2G2M) with Tomb Raider & Bioshock PC Games £155.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £104.99
1 x MSI 990XA-GD55 AMD 990X Chipset (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TD120BW) £79.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 500w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020059-UK) £54.98
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA100) HDD £53.99
1 x Adata XPG Gaming v1.0 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AX3U1600GC4G9-2G) £37.99
1 x Cooler Master Elite 372 Midi Tower Case - Black £34.99
1 x Thermalright True Spirit 120 REV A [BW] Performance CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £24.98
Total : £640.50 (includes shipping : £10.50).



You could get the cheaper WD blue that is on offer today, but it's today only.
 
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