£650 Build

[Fallen god]

So after helping one of my mates build a PC and move over to PC gaming another one wants to join in. He currently has a monitor/keyboard/mouse/speakers so we just need a base tower. He also has a spare Windows 8 upgrade key which he brought when it was £25 but never used.

I have put this together and just want too know if anything needs to change.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 280 TurboDUO 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £179.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £113.99
1 x Gigabyte 990XA-UD3 AMD 990X (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x BitFenix Ronin Tower Case - Black £69.95
1 x Crucial MX100 128GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT128MX100SSD1) £56.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £49.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD10EZRX) **SINGLE PLATTER** HDD £46.99
1 x NZXT Hale Power 90+ 550W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply £43.99
1 x Raijintek Themis Direct Contact CPU Cooler £19.99
Total : £683.29 (includes shipping : £17.85).




Cheers.

 

[cheesyboy]

I'd swap out that old mobo for either the cheaper 970a ud3p (if not likely to Crossfire GPUs) or the more expensive 990fx UD3 (if Crossfiring is likely). They will both overclock better.

 

[Danny75]

It's a good spec. Just wondering if this alternative might be worth considering, for upgrading (as things are limited with AMD processors in that respect):

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Z97 Gaming 5 Intel Core i5 DIY ATX Motherboard Upgrade Kit £329.93
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 270X "PowerBank" 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £143.99
1 x Crucial MX100 128GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT128MX100SSD1) £56.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £49.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £44.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £42.98
Total : £683.87 (includes shipping : £12.50).



Starts off with a 270X, which means dropping a level, but it's still a pretty good card, whilst getting sorted with a good Intel Z97 mobo and an i5-4670K.

Couldn't fit a cooler into your budget but one will be thrown in with those motherboard kits according to Gibbo. No idea how good it is, and there's also the stock cooler to do the job at first, if need be.

Note that the NZXT Hale 550W pushes up the shipping fee, which makes the SuperFlower 550W Gold worth getting instead (when on offer).