BF3 budget build ideas?

Danzo · 1 Sep 2013 at 18:48

Hi folks,

A friend of mine is looking to build his first gaming rig and he had asked me to find him the parts, so i was wondering if any of you guys could find a better Battlefield 3 or 4 spec build for under £400 and it can be mini ITX all the way upto ATX. Meybe even a steam box type build would be great too. Cheers (also I havent decided on a gpu yet but the A10's built in GPU could be used i guess, and he already has a monitor)

here's what i got,

AMD A10 6800K £111.00
Asus F2A55-M LE Motherboard £51.88
Corsair (2X4GB) Vengeance Memory £58.00
Seagate Barracuda 3.5 inch 500GB £36.00
Corsair Builder Series CX 430 Watt ATX £37.15
Cooler Master RC-430-KWN1 Elite £36.96

Total £330.99

tamzzy · 1 Sep 2013 at 19:21

for 350 quid, you could consider 2nd hand parts, definitely build a more powerful system that way =x

T345 · 1 Sep 2013 at 19:26

tamzzy said:
for 350 quid, you could consider 2nd hand parts, definitely build a more powerful system that way =x

This!
Get a i7 920 for cheap
Cheap X58 mobo (hard to find, but you will)
6gb or 12gb of DDR3
Cheap case
Decent PSU
And a GPU like the 5850/70 or a 470 etc...

Doomedspeed · 1 Sep 2013 at 19:28

Secondhand would be much better value you could get a fairly decent 2500k + 560/570 ish rig for that. (maybe upto £500). Its worth looking around.

As for the build above. 5800k, A75/A85 motherboard, fast (2133/2400) RAM and a decent cooler to overc lock.. That'd be my over bet.

Danzo · 1 Sep 2013 at 19:51

OK well i had a look at t a 920 on amazon and there almost £300 at the moment so there out the window i guess. I would imagine an AMD would be the best option at the moment

T345 · 1 Sep 2013 at 19:56

Danzo said:
OK well i had a look at t a 920 on and there almost £300 at the moment so there out the window i guess. I would imagine an AMD would be the best option at the moment

£300? Also that is a competitor, we are talking about used

Danzo · 1 Sep 2013 at 20:00

Allright sorry about that didn't realise but yeah meybe not used he doesnt seem so keen on used parts. is there anything new we could find? thanks

teppic · 1 Sep 2013 at 20:07

Can you push the budget up at all?

Danzo · 1 Sep 2013 at 20:15

possibly push upto around £450

teppic · 1 Sep 2013 at 20:18

This is £460 plus delivery. It's a very good high-budget build - taking up the graphics card to a 7850 would improve things considerably. As it is it'd be miles better than an APU, more than twice the performance.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £89.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £89.99
1 x MSI HD 7770 GHz Edition 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE GAMES £79.99
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV38G160C9K) £59.99
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L7 530W '80 Plus' Power Supply £55.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £49.99
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £32.99
Total : £473.03 (includes shipping : £11.75).

Danzo · 1 Sep 2013 at 20:24

Yeah that looks great man especially with a 6 core amd in there

teppic · 1 Sep 2013 at 20:31

You'd be able to play BF3/BF4 on that no problem. If he decides to spend a bit more, go for the 7850 (£130), otherwise the PC could be later upgraded with a very good graphics card like a 7970. I'd also try to add a reasonably good CPU cooler so you can overclock.

Danzo · 2 Sep 2013 at 22:36

Cheers, Ill let him know guys though he did spot a half price pre-built amd build online (hissss) haha but I'm sure I can convince him to build a system which will end up being allot better.

Cheers

teppic · 2 Sep 2013 at 22:42

Be very wary about pre-built ones, they could well be using Bulldozer, which you should steer well clear of

Danzo · 2 Sep 2013 at 22:45

Oh yeah, It's a bulldozer. Dam better warn him. one of my other buddies got one a while back. The thing ended up being shipped with very cheap ram modules which would cause constant blue screens and make the thing un-usable.

teppic · 2 Sep 2013 at 22:49

Yeah, don't waste money on Bulldozer. It'll no doubt have a crappy 700 series motherboard too.

Piledriver plus a solid 970 board makes an excellent base, you can't really beat it for the money. Add on a 7950 and you'll get max settings in loads of games.

Danzo · 2 Sep 2013 at 22:56

Yeah I think I have spotted a piledriver plus online for around the same price which i may suggest to him. Although at the end of the day though its his decision (which i hope is the custom build

) but In my opinion I would like him to push his budget and go with an Ivy i5 and definetly slap on a beefy 7950, it would sort him for BF3 and 4!

cheers

teppic · 2 Sep 2013 at 23:00

The 6300 can handle BF3/BF4 fine (the 8320 would be better, but it's a bit more at £114).

Avenged7Fold · 2 Sep 2013 at 23:30

Maybe wait till October for GPU choices, from the hype i have been seeing in the GPU forum, the next generation isn't all that far away. Or maybe even wait for Kaveri to show up and see what it has to offer (seems promising but that is all hype and hope for now).

Then again, with this attitude, you will always be waiting for the next thing and by the time you build the PC, bf5 will be out xD

I will say that if you plan to eventually get a fx 6 or 8 core that will be overclocked, go for nothing less than a Asus evo motherboard, but if you consider the price of the motherboard, you almost lose the difference you save on the CPU by going for AMD as a cheaper alternative to intel and at that point, it would be better to just go Haswell/Ivy/Sandy.

teppic · 2 Sep 2013 at 23:42

The Asus board and CPU together come to about £180, less than the 4670K by itself. In quite a few games there'll be no real (noticeable) difference in performance between the two, the 6300 might even come out ahead in BF4. A second hand 2500K with a Z68 board is a good deal if it's an option.