Can you better this build?

jrwagh333

jrwagh333

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Budget is around £600

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Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 660 WindForce 2X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £169.99
(£141.66) £169.99
(£141.66)
AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £119.99
(£99.99) £119.99
(£99.99)
NZXT H2 Classic Silent Midi Tower Case - Black £79.99
(£66.66) £79.99
(£66.66)
ASRock 970 Extreme3 R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £65.99
(£54.99) £65.99
(£54.99)
XFX Pro 650W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £59.99
(£49.99) £59.99
(£49.99)
Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD10EZEX - OEM ** Single Platter ** HDD £54.95
(£45.79) £54.95
(£45.79)
Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BLS2CP4G3D1609DS1S00CEU) £49.99
(£41.66) £49.99
(£41.66)

Sub Total : £500.74
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VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £100.15
Total : £600.89
 
The only thing I can think of at this time of night is the case, it has got terrible cooling there is a well known reviewer out there who made it clear the case was **** poor. If you want to stay around the 370 range for a case take a look in the B grade section, they have a good couple of choices, the Shinobi or the Phantom 410 would be better choices. http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=595&catid=687
 
Please note, that many XFX psus, suffer from fan clicking noise after a while, so you might want to consider one of Corsair's units.
 
Thanks for the recommend changes, heard nothing but A+ reviews for Seasonic. Any other changes anyone would make? Would ideally like to stick with Nvidia for the GPU
 
Sorry but just bumping again. Doesn't have to be AMD but this seems to be the only way I can keep the budget under £600. Main games will be Skyrim, BF3, COD all at 1080p. Monitor and other peripherals are not needed
 
Well, would it be worth your while going the extra bit?

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM with FREE Grid 2 PC Game £179.99
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 660 OC Twin Frozr 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £159.95
1 x Gigabyte Z87M-D3H Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £95.99
1 x Enermax Triathlor 450w '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (ETL450AWT) £59.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) HDD £46.99
1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BLS2CP4G3D1609DS1S00CEU) £43.99
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x LG GH24NS95 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £19.99
Total : £653.98 (includes shipping : £11.75).



Your choices, Haswell + 650ti, or FX with a GTX660.
 
That looks quite good Olivier but will the stock cooler be able to handle the Haswell heat?

In my opinion though as it will mainly be used for gaming, I think AMD may be the way to go, as in my personal opinion, think there will be a lot more console games that are ported over that will make use of the 8 cores.
 
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Possibly an odd suggestion but you could go for something like this.

Hybrid crossfire, SSD, 1TB storage, cheap :)

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A10-6800K Black Edition 4.10GHz (Socket FM2) APU Richland Quad Core Processor (AD680KWOHLBOX) £124.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TD120BW) £79.99
1 x HIS HD 7750 iCooler 2048MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H775FS2G) £69.95
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 500w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020059-UK) £54.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £52.99
1 x Asus F2A55-M LE AMD A55 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £49.99
1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BLS2CP4G3D1609DS1S00CEU) £43.99
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x Thermalright True Spirit 120 REV A (BW) Performance CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1150 / 1155 / 1156 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £24.98
1 x OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
Total : £549.85 (includes shipping : FREE).

 
bru said:
Possibly an odd suggestion but you could go for something like this.

Hybrid crossfire, SSD, 1TB storage, cheap :)

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A10-6800K Black Edition 4.10GHz (Socket FM2) APU Richland Quad Core Processor (AD680KWOHLBOX) £124.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TD120BW) £79.99
1 x HIS HD 7750 iCooler 2048MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H775FS2G) £69.95
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 500w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020059-UK) £54.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £52.99
1 x Asus F2A55-M LE AMD A55 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £49.99
1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BLS2CP4G3D1609DS1S00CEU) £43.99
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x Thermalright True Spirit 120 REV A (BW) Performance CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1150 / 1155 / 1156 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £24.98
1 x OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
Total : £549.85 (includes shipping : FREE).

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A 6800K can not be combined with a 7750 card in Hybrid crossfire mode.

The best card you can use is a 6670.

A A55 chipset isnt great, no USB3.0 or SATAIII.

Finally APU's really need the best (fastest) RAM you can give them.
 
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stulid said:
A 6800K can not be combined with a 7750 card in Hybrid crossfire mode.

The best card you can use is a 6670.

A A55 chipset isnt great, no USB3.0 or SATAIII.

Finally APU's really need the best (fastest) RAM you can give them.
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They can according to the ocuk page here.

As I said it was a bit of an odd suggestion, plenty of room for faster ram or a better board within the budget.
 
bru said:
They can according to the ocuk page here.

as I said it was a bit of an odd suggestion, plenty of room for faster ram within the budget.
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They cant according to the AMD press pack I have here.

*Although saying that they do have the clock speeds for the A10 6700 wrong in it.
 
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stulid said:
They cant according to the AMD press pack I have here.

*Although saying that they do have the clock speeds for the A10 6700 wrong in it.
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Hehe fair enough, I think we will have to wait for clarification on this issue then.

The more I look at my build suggestion the more I think it really is a pile of crap, I would much prefer to go with olivier's build suggested earlier.:p
 
bru said:
Hehe fair enough, I think we will have to wait for clarification on this issue then.

The more I look at my build suggestion the more I think it really is a pile of crap, I would much prefer to go with olivier's build suggested earlier.:p
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I was sent an update press pack the other day, maybe they changed it, what is funny is if you look around at reviews of the 6800K which also mention the 6700 base+turbo speeds they got it wrong at 3.9/4.2.

A A10 6700 is actually 3.7/4.3
 
jrwagh333 said:
That looks quite good Olivier but will the stock cooler be able to handle the Haswell heat?

In my opinion though as it will mainly be used for gaming, I think AMD may be the way to go, as in my personal opinion, think there will be a lot more console games that are ported over that will make use of the 8 cores.
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It's a viable alternative, but it's a bit speculative. I would try to get a good FX board though, a 990FX / 990X chipset for overclocking.
 
Cooler isn't NEEDED but will always help.
Main usage is gaming.
I know my stuff so don't need to be baby talked through this haha, just seeing how much I can cram in for £600 and everyones opinion is always welcome
 
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