£600 - £650 General Build

ssmacc · 12 Nov 2013 at 12:56

Hello All,

A friend is after a multi purpose PC that is "future proof" (as can be), my last build was AMD so I've stuck with that. However, Intel is fine if it'd be better and the same budget (£650).

Any advice appreciated.

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Martini1991 · 12 Nov 2013 at 12:58

That looks somewhat spot on to be honest.

stulid · 12 Nov 2013 at 13:00

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI HD 7850 OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Cards £119.99
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 £89.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £86.99
1 x Toshiba 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA200) HDD £68.99
1 x Antec High Current Gamer 520W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £56.99
1 x BitFenix Shadow Tower Case - Midnight Black £54.98
Total : £670.50 (includes shipping : £10.50).

£657 with free delivery.

Improved for you.

• Seasonic made PSU.
• FX cpu's dont benefit from faster RAM.

Doomedspeed · 12 Nov 2013 at 13:03

Much better stulid..

Perfect.

teppic · 12 Nov 2013 at 13:04

I'd recommend this RAM:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-076-PA

Otherwise looks fine (though a green drive is slower - so get a regular one if it's not just for storage).

Martini1991 · 12 Nov 2013 at 13:06

Wouldn't really go for 1600MHZ CL11 RAM for the sake of ~10 quid.

Could probably run some low timings with the RAM in the OP, I ran 1600MHZ CL6 RAM before when I had 2000MHZ CL9 RAM.

stulid · 12 Nov 2013 at 13:06

Doomedspeed said:
Much better stulid..

Perfect.

teppic · 12 Nov 2013 at 13:10

Martini1991 said:
Wouldn't really go for 1600MHZ CL11 RAM for the sake of ~10 quid.

Could probably run some low timings with the RAM in the OP, I ran 1600MHZ CL6 RAM before when I had 2000MHZ CL9 RAM.

Yeah, C11 will cause a drop in overall performance vs. C9. Plus 1600MHz will limit overclocking potential via the bus.

edit:

Speaking of overclocking, it'd be a shame to run the CPU at stock, as it has a huge potential. It'd need a cooler though, something around £30 would allow about 4.5GHz - I'd add it to the budget, or upgrade to one later.

Rhyswh · 12 Nov 2013 at 13:16

I have a green drive with an SSD and you'd never know it's a green drive. (only used for storage)

teppic · 12 Nov 2013 at 13:23

For storage green drives are absolutely fine, I have one for Blurays and DVDs. They're a lot slower when it comes to random access, so not great for apps and games.

Rhyswh · 12 Nov 2013 at 13:28

teppic said:
For storage green drives are absolutely fine, I have one for Blurays and DVDs. They're a lot slower when it comes to random access, so not great for apps and games.

I just read what you wrote again and I realised that's what you meant! My appolagies

hakank68 · 12 Nov 2013 at 15:09

stulid said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI HD 7850 OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Cards £119.99
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 £89.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £86.99
1 x Toshiba 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA200) HDD £68.99
1 x Antec High Current Gamer 520W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £56.99
1 x BitFenix Shadow Tower Case - Midnight Black £54.98
Total : £670.50 (includes shipping : £10.50).

£657 with free delivery.

Improved for you.

• Seasonic made PSU.
• FX cpu's dont benefit from faster RAM.

+1 great spec stulid

ssmacc · 13 Nov 2013 at 08:45

Thanks everyone (especially stulid), looks like the above it is!