£500 using the cooler master elite 120

James1954 · 29 Apr 2014 at 11:55

Hey
Finally decided to spend some mula, Ive currently got monitor/OS/keyboard and such but requiring the pc portion to be complete,

Im not looking to max out any games, but defo wanting potential of playing them on medium/high with no AA/AF,
I've built this one up below:

Case - CoolerMaster Elite 120
CPU - AMD PileDriver 6300
GPU - Radeon R9 270 2gb
Motherboard - Asus M5A78L AMD 760G
Memory - Kingston HyperX Beast 8Gb (2x4)
PSU - Superflow Golden Green 450W
HD - Western 500Gb 64mb cache

Ordering through Overclockers, This comes in a £478 which I thought was acceptable, but any improvements?

Thanks people!

ocmanus · 29 Apr 2014 at 12:00

Perhaps look at getting a better cooler for the CPU.

James1954 · 29 Apr 2014 at 12:13

yea good shout, I'l be looking to getting to about 4.5ghz with the cpu, so is the coolermaster elite's fan a bit shoddy?
I'l probably go for an 120mm Akasa as i've had one on my old pc for quite a time, faultless

Art · 29 Apr 2014 at 13:19

That case is Mini ITX but the motherboard is ATX: you'll either need a bigger case or a smaller mobo.

HeX · 29 Apr 2014 at 13:22

I'd personally get the 130 instead of the 120. It's got a lot of tweaks and improvements, then add in a basic AIO watercooler and you're good to go

alexakasloth · 29 Apr 2014 at 17:28

James1954 said:
yea good shout, I'l be looking to getting to about 4.5ghz with the cpu, so is the coolermaster elite's fan a bit shoddy?
I'l probably go for an 120mm Akasa as i've had one on my old pc for quite a time, faultless

The 120mm fan is good, the 80mm fan can get a tad whiny so I took mine out. You'll want a different CPU cooler though, I posted a thread about temps recently with the same case and an AMD A10 which has a slightly higher TDP but gives you an idea of the sort of temperatures you might expect. Definately don't skimp on it, I'm very happy with the Big Shuriken but another member had good results with another CPU cooler.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18571883

tamzzy · 29 Apr 2014 at 18:51

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 270 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (11220-00-20G) £134.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4430 3.00GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £131.99
1 x Seagate SSHD 7200RPM 3.5" 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DX001) SSHD Hybrid Drive £59.99
1 x Asus H81I-Plus Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard £58.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Cooler Master Elite 130 RC-130-KKN1 Mini ITX Case - Black £45.95
1 x SuperFlower Amazon 450W "80 Plus Bronze" Power Supply £39.95
1 x LiteOn IHAS124-14 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
Total : £542.83 (includes shipping : ).

imo this would be a better rig for ~500 quid (okay, slightly over but... ;p)
better case than the 120
better processor than the 6300
cheaper ram but same spec (different colour but the case has no windows)
1tb sshd vs the 500 gb hdd, the sshd is miles better than a solo hdd and about 70% of the speed vs a ssd+hdd combo
remove the optical drive if you dont need it to save a bit more

James1954 · 30 Apr 2014 at 21:21

Hey thanks for the suggestions, yea looking at the 130 case now, and also cooling options, most likely sticking the the fan cooling route over water cooling,

Still deciding over the cpu, there seem to be many more mitx motherboards for intel over amd's, but leaning more towards the intel i5 4400, seems pretty decent?

Also opinions on going for a 7870 over the r9 270? is it pretty much the 'last years version'?

mucgoo · 5 May 2014 at 15:32

AMD doesn't have mitx board for AM3. If you want to shave costs consider the FM2 athlon 760k?
2m mark for 7870 comparison
No real world difference currently. You can get the slightly better 760k now and that was with a higher clock 4670k rather than 4400. Maybe your'll regret it in a few year time though.

Whichever you can get a good deal on.

James1954 · 5 May 2014 at 20:26

Yea more convinced by the i5, and sorry meant to write down the 4440, rather than the 4400!
But going to do some ordering tomorrow, think i'm all sorted but having second thoughts over the motherboard, there's probably not much in it. But looking at the Asus H81I-PLUS? think that'll do?