£700 Build, any good?

[MarkJr]

So, is it any good? I reckon I have specced something good for casual gaming. Any suggestions on how to maybe save a small bit of money, and have the same sort of performance?

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 270 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £143.99
1 x Iiyama ProLite E2278HD 22" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £99.95
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £89.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £67.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £65.99
1 x GeIL Black Dragon 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Dual Channel Kit (GD38GB1333C9DC) £59.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-DS3P AMD 970A (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £56.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 500w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020059-UK) £55.99
1 x Aerocool Vs-3 Advance Midi Tower Case - Black £34.99
1 x Samsung SH-118AB/BEBE SATA 18x DVD-ROM (Black) - OEM £12.95
Total : £703.81 (includes shipping : £12.50).

 

[Avenged7Fold]

Would use a better motherboard and 1600 or higher ram, not just for the ram speed but to make clocking easier. Ram should still cost about the same but the cheapest motherboard i would recommend on am3+ socket is around the 80 mark. Take away windows 7 and use a windows 8 trial to get more bang for buck on components that last longer in terms of future proofing and reliability. If you can stretch budget, an SSD and a slightly better GPU would be worth it.

Will have a build in a bit if no one steps in with their own before that.

 

[MarkJr]

Would use a better motherboard and 1600 or higher ram, not just for the ram speed but to make clocking easier. Ram should still cost about the same but the cheapest motherboard i would recommend on am3+ socket is around the 80 mark. Take away windows 7 and use a windows 8 trial to get more bang for buck on components that last longer in terms of future proofing and reliability. If you can stretch budget, an SSD and a slightly better GPU would be worth it.

Will have a build in a bit if no one steps in with their own before that.

I'll see what I can do.

 

[stulid]

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Radeon R9 270X Gaming Edition OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £155.99
1 x Iiyama ProLite E2278HD 22" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £99.95
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £89.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £67.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £65.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-DS3P AMD 970A (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £56.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £53.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £53.99
1 x BitFenix Comrade Midi-Tower - Black £29.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £11.99
Total : £700.94 (includes shipping : £11.75).



The board is fine for a hex core FX chip.

DVD drive will burn disks.

Gold rated PSU and the latest BitFenix case):

 

[Avenged7Fold]

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Radeon R9 280X Gaming Edition OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £219.95
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £119.99
1 x Iiyama ProLite E2278HD 22" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £99.95
1 x **B Grade** Gigabyte 990XA-UD3 AMD 990X (Socket AM3+) DDR3 (MB-349-GI) £80.00
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £65.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £53.99
1 x EVGA 500W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply (100-B1-0500-KR) £39.95
1 x Aerocool Vs-3 Advance Midi Tower Case - Black £34.99
Total : £714.80 (includes shipping : FREE).




No OS or dvd drive but i think the trade off is worth it considering how easy they are to add at a later date.