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Darr2cool78

Darr2cool78

Darr2cool78

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Hey guys, friend has asked me to put together a medium range gaming pc for him, his budget is £600, doesn't require monitor, any peripherals or O/S just hardware/case.

I have already put a cart together but wanted to see what recommendations the experts on here would have for this budget and maybe change some things.

Forgot to say Intel for cpu

cheers :)
 
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AMD is best for this price range,


YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 280 TurboDUO 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £179.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £83.99
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £74.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-DS3P AMD 970A (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £50.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £49.99
1 x NZXT Hale Power 90+ 550W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply £43.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £42.98
1 x Zalman Z3-Plus Midi-Tower - White £39.95
1 x Raijintek Themis Direct Contact CPU Cooler £19.99
Total : £608.28 (includes shipping : £17.85).




The Zalamn case has four included fans.

The PSU is made by Superflower.

Nice big SSD.
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Or do away with the SSD and spend it all on the CPU+GFX card,

YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 280X TurboDUO 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £209.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £113.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-UD3P AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £67.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £49.99
1 x NZXT Hale Power 90+ 550W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply £43.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £42.98
1 x Zalman Z3-Plus Midi-Tower - White £39.95
1 x Raijintek Themis Direct Contact CPU Cooler £19.99
Total : £610.30 (includes shipping : £17.85).



The motherboard is suitably changed to cope with this chip.
 
I apologise mate, my bad I was late in adding an Intel only preference to my post sorry :( but other than the CPU your builds make some nice suggestions on hard drives and gfx :)
 
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 760 WindForce 3x OC Rev2 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **Black PCB** £175.99
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £74.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £69.95
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan GOLD 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLYD38G2133HC11ADC01) £59.99
1 x Intel Pentium K Anniversary G3258 Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £52.99
1 x NZXT Hale Power 90+ 550W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply £43.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £42.98
1 x Zalman Z3-Plus Midi-Tower - White £39.95
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler £29.99
Total : £612.24 (includes shipping : £17.85).




Overclockable;)

Colour matched for extra pleasure.
 
Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Powercolor Radeon R9 280X TurboDUO 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card Powercolor Radeon R9 280X TurboDUO 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £209.99
(£174.99) £209.99
(£174.99)
AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £113.99
(£94.99) £113.99
(£94.99)
TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2133HC11ADC01) TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2133HC11ADC01) £59.99
(£49.99) £59.99
(£49.99)
Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £55.99
(£46.66) £55.99
(£46.66)
Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD10EZRX) **SINGLE PLATTER** HDD Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD10EZRX) **SINGLE PLATTER** HDD £46.99
(£39.16) £46.99
(£39.16)
NZXT Hale Power 90+ 550W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply NZXT Hale Power 90+ 550W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply £43.99
(£36.66) £43.99
(£36.66)
NZXT Source 210 Elite Midi Tower Case - Black NZXT Source 210 Elite Midi Tower Case - Black £39.95
(£33.29) £39.95
(£33.29)
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler £26.99
(£22.49) £26.99
(£22.49)
OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £10.99
(£9.16) £10.99
(£9.16)

£608.87 without shipping. Similar to what the others suggested. But I'd definitely exclude the SSD and leave it for a later upgrade, at this pricepoint. Having a 280X and FX-8320 is definitely worth it over 280 / SSD / FX63xx.

Edit, I don't know how to format it :'(
 
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That board is no good for that CPU as it has no VRM cooling. AM3+ boards without VRM cooling tend to throttle the CPU when the going gets tough.
 
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