£500 Rig

 
thanks man, went over budget in the end.

heres the spec i went with

amd fx 8350 8 core
MSI 970 Gaming AMD 970 mobo
Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2x4GB) 1600mhz
SanDisk SSD SATA III 2.5" 240GB
XFX Radeon R9 390 Double Dissipation 8GB
Corsair Carbide Series SPEC-01 Red LED
EVGA 600W ATX Power Supply
samsung dvd rw
windows 10 oem dvd

£753.67

thoughts?
ill stick another harddrive on later
 
i3-6100 nearly 50% more single-core speed. And with the FX-8350 using four cores, it's still 6% slower than the i3-6100 according to some benchmarks. Only time it beats it is when it uses all 8 cores, which not all games do.

So you are paying more and it isn't better at everything. Not to mention the FX-8320 is the same chip and just needs a bit of overclocking to be the more expensive FX-8350.

A Skylake i5 + budget motherboard may have been a better choice with your increased budget.

With the Spec 01 case, remember to pass the 8-pin EPS cable from the PSU (for CPU power on motherboard) through the hole in the motherboard tray, before mounting the motherboard. There isn't much room at the back for cable management at all, so recommend zip-ties v velcro in this case and being creative (i.e. use all the holes you can find to position zip-ties in other places to spread out the cables more).
 
Thanks for the advice. Im seeing a lot of information about amd cpus and gpus running well together, especially with games, something to do with data connections. For the price ofcourse. Also I have an i7 msi apache pro laptop and while I like it and its an awesome machine I kinda wanted to see the juxtaposition of an amd system. Other factors like reliability of the mother board and memory on the gpu swayed me in the end. I felt it was worth the risky switch to amd for stability and compatability.

I forgot how much I missed this forum.
 
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