£600 gaming spec

Yeah, I was just thinking if it allowed him to get an i5 now, and perhaps a £200~ gpu in a month or 2 then it would be worth considering especially as he wouldn't be losing cash on buying 2 gpus etc, but my god, the benchmarks are horrible >.<

I'll show him this Pentium build, I imagine it'll be more than sufficient for the moment and with that chipset it will be quite easy to update the GPU or CPU at a later date :) thanks guys!
 
I would recommend the r9 270x for a 600 gamimg gig
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Few more questions, I've always gone for low latency ram in the past for my builds but not ever tested similar products, any ideas on whats more preferable these days, I noticed these 2400mhz sticks have very similar latency to the 2133 ones stulid listed. Any suggestions regarding this?


Edit: Been reading this article, been quite interesting :

you can clearly see how tightly balanced RAM frequency and timings are. While a few of our benchmarks did show differences with the higher frequency RAM (WinRar in particular) the performance gain by using high frequency RAM was highly inconsistent. Especially considering that some of our benchmarks showed worse performance with the higher frequency RAM, it makes it impossible to make a blanket statement regarding whether frequency or timings are more important.
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Another factor to take into account is the fact that high frequency RAM in general also has a higher failure rate. From our part failure reports, just the small jump from 1333MHz to 1600MHz RAM brings about a threefold increase in failure rates. Now, this is the difference between a .8% failure rate on DDR3-1333 versus a 3.9% failure rate on DDR3-1600, but it is still a notable increase.
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I've also not tinkered much with GPU's, but the general theme people seem to be going for is grabbing 270's over 270x's and overclocking them, if my friend can afford to stretch his budget is this worth doing?

Edit: Would a 450W PSU support 2 270's? Thinking for upgrading in the future, if he decides to go for xfire.

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I will try and answer these Q's,

• That RAM you liked to is rather tall, a air cooler and its fan may cause fitment issues.

• A 270 and 270X are identical apart from clock speeds, so that will be the reasoning behind that.

As with anything, the more you spend the more you get, so a 270 is a quicker card than a 265.
 
Yeah, am a bit wary with the ram height, I have an issue in my own case due to the CPU cooler fan protector clashing with ram sticks, luckily it slots in between the sticks without issue though.

Thanks for the help again :)
 
One more question! D:

We're thinking of adding a second r9 270 at a later date , I am thinking the rig will need a 650w psu for running xfire, but I've not used multiple GPU so I'm not sure what sort of wattage is essential for it, any advice would be appreciated :)


Edit: Would this corsair 600w do the trick?
 
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