£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!

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

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'?

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?