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wilber

wilber

wilber

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Will be buying two of these for a friend and his mate for CAD/Home use.

How does this build look? He won't stretch more than what i have spent. £550 is the budget really.

Gigabyte Radeon R9 270 OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with BattleField 4 PC Game Included (£124.99) £149.99

Intel Core i5-4430 3.00GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail (£116.66) £139.99

Seagate SSHD 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DX001) SSHD Hybrid Drive (£59.99) £71.99

TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) (£46.66) £55.99

Cooler Master GX 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply Cooler Master GX 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (£41.66) £49.99

MSI B85M-P33 Intel B85 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard (£39.99) £47.99

BitFenix Merc Beta Gaming Case - Black (£26.49) £31.79

OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM (£14.16) £16.99

Sub Total : £470.60
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel (Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £11.75
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £96.47
Total : £578.82
 
You can always get a cooler later and OC the chip.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Radeon R9 270 OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with BattleField 4 PC Game Included £149.99
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 £75.95
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 500w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020059-UK) £55.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £42.95
1 x BitFenix Merc Beta Gaming Case - Black £31.79
1 x OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £563.74 (includes shipping : £11.75).

 
Cheers for the reply, It will 100% be run at stock, my friend is not tech savvy enough for overclocking.
 
I think the OP's spec is probably better for the intended use. I'd take the Hassy i5 over a Piledriver for CAD/general desktop use any day.
 
I feel Intel will be better too (and i work with CAD programs).

Some (most) applications use a limited(rescrited) amount of cores and rely on the "power" per core the PC provides.

Our systems are 2 x 6-core xeons. At most the program we use uses 4-6 cores (not even 100% either).
 
CAD programs tend to be heavily single threaded and the Piledriver architecture suffers additionally by it's shared floating point scheduler between the cores. Rendering benefits from hyper-threading. With CAD programs I'm sure raw speed still rules over hyper-threading, so go with Intel IMHO.
 
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