Opinions on FX6300, GTX660 build?

[lemon2]

Hi

Helping a friend make a build, peripherals not included. We're set on the GTX660, and would like to overclock a bit. Around £650 budget.



Thats £646 including VAT.

Many thanks,

Lemon2

 

[teppic]

Why the 660? The 270X is faster, the same price, and some include BF4.

I'd get an 8320 over a 6300, it will perform better in newer games.

 

[Fulax]

Why the 660? The 270X is faster, the same price, and some include BF4.

Quite.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Radeon R9 270X WindForce 3X OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with BattleField 4 PC Game Included £161.99
Total : £172.79 (includes shipping : £9.00).



and

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £119.99
Total : £128.69 (includes shipping : £7.25).

 

[stulid]

Cheaper RAM

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-068-PA

 

[teppic]

I'd get this instead myself:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Radeon R9 270X WindForce 3X OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with BattleField 4 PC Game Included £161.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £119.99
1 x Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £89.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £86.99
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L8 600W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - With 120mm Silent Wing Fan Built in £59.99
1 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVI38G160C9K) £53.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £49.99
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler £29.99
Total : £652.91 (includes shipping : FREE).



Better CPU, more overclock potential, better cooler, faster GPU, better PSU, cheaper memory, free BF4

 

[lemon2]

Why the 660? The 270X is faster, the same price, and some include BF4.

I'd get an 8320 over a 6300, it will perform better in newer games.

I agree about the GPU.

I'm not that sure about the 8320, I think most games are not threaded enough to benefit from the 8-cores. The 8320 is only 1% higher performance in a single-threaded applications. http://www.cpu-world.com/Compare/301/AMD_FX-Series_FX-6300_vs_AMD_FX-Series_FX-8320.html

Budget is strict and I don't want to go for £25 more on the CPU.

EDIT: thanks for the ram update

 

[teppic]

Unless you're running DOS games, you won't be running single threaded games. Newer ones are using 8 cores, and it can make a big difference there, especially overclocked.

e.g.

http://www.pcgameshardware.de/screenshots/original/2013/02/Crysis-3-Test-CPUs-VH-720p.png

 

[Fulax]

If you weren't already, you should be eligible for free shipping now - 100 posts and a member for over a year.

 

[lemon2]

Having looked at the benchmarks, the difference between the FX6300 and the FX8320 is definitely there. However it is simply out of budget, the budget is extremely tight and squeezed as it is, and I simply can't stretch to chase diminishing returns in performance.

EDIT: thankyou for the free shipping, I do not know if my friend will want to order through my account or not.

 

[teppic]

It's not out of budget if you make various changes - the build I suggested comes to £653.

 

[DaleTheWhale]

For an extra £6 Teppics build is decent and what I'd go with!

 

[lemon2]

We're discussing it, we'll see how it goes, but we agree with your points.

I was wondering why you chose this motherboard over our original one: Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £89.99

The price seems the same but ours is 900 series rather than 700 series

 

[teppic]

They're both 900 series. The only difference between 970 and 990 is with multi GPUs.

The Asus 970 board is known to overclock extremely well, much more so than the Gigabyte, and you should reach 4.5GHz or better with the cooler I suggested.

 

[lemon2]

Sorry, my mistake. I meant 990x vs 970 (not 900 vs 700) but I concede your point and will change the mobo.

 

[bennydragonboy]

Definitely agree on R270(X), the FX-6300 is not a bad choice, even though the FX-83xx is better in multi-threaded games and applications. As stated, it comes down to budget. Oh and I would go for a 990X board too.