£400, Work/game rig

new numa hey

new numa hey

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Hey, my friend wants to build a PC for at least £400.

He won't be doing anything crazy, just for work and a bit of Guild wars.

Should I go for an Intel build or will this be alright? I've heard some good things about the A10 APU.

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A10-5800K Black Edition 3.80GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD580KWOHJBOX) £95.99
1 x ASRock FM2A75 Pro4 AMD A75 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £68.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) HDD £47.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £43.99
1 x XFX Pro 450W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £39.95
1 x BitFenix Merc Beta Gaming Case - Black £29.99
Total : £340.99 (includes shipping : £11.75).

 
Does quicker RAM give that much of a performance boost? Or just a few FPS?

Always wondered, but never really came across many benchmarks.
 
Sorry for the late reply and yeah, what Smoogels said. Does it really make a big difference?

Also what would you personally change with the build apart from the case and HDD?
 
new numa hey said:
Sorry for the late reply and yeah, what Smoogels said. Does it really make a big difference?

Also what would you personally change with the build apart from the case and HDD?
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It does make a difference and keep in mind you are nearly paying the same price for the 1600mhz kit anyway with a worse CAS rating (lower is better).

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A10-5800K Black Edition 3.80GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD580KWOHJBOX) £95.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A85X-D3H AMD A85X Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £64.99
1 x Adata XPG Xtreme v1.0 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C10 2133MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AX3U2133XC4G10-2X) £47.99
1 x **B Grade** Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (S (HD-257-SE) £45.00
1 x NZXT Source 210 Elite Midi Tower Case - Black £39.98
1 x XFX Pro 450W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £39.95
Total : £348.00 (includes shipping : £11.75).



Mobo has a dual BIOS, 3 year uk warranty. HDD is B grade but has double the capacity and more cache. I'm not a lover of the merc case (I have used it), it's far too basic really. This NZXT isn't a bad budget case, has USB3 and comes with two fans (merc has one).

Case is a personal preference, I'm a fan of the Zalman Z9 U3 (OCuk now stock it YAY) as a starters case. You get a lot of kit for your cash with it. 3 fans (2 led blue), dust filters, large side window, USB3, fan controller, digital temp display......oh and a P4/8 extension for the mobos aux power to help with cable management.

Hope this helps.......i take it you have an optical drive or are installing the OS via USB?
 
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