£700 build for friend

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Hey, so my friend is going to be purchasing a new PC for gaming and work (3DS Max/ office work) and he has asked me to put parts together and build for him.
The most intensive game he will be playing will be BF4 for the time being.

Here is what I have came up with:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 280X Dual-X OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Card £229.99
1 x AMD A10-5800K Black Edition 3.80GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD580KWOHJBOX) £99.95
1 x Antec High Current Gamer 620W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £79.99
1 x Asus F2A55 AMD A55 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £74.99
1 x Cooler Master CM-690 II Lite Windowed Gaming Tower Case - Black £69.95
1 x Patriot Viper "Sapphire Blue" 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV38G213C1KBL) £69.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x Cooler Master Hyper 412S CPU Cooler £28.99
1 x Zalman ZM-K200M Multimedia/Gaming Keyboard £9.95
Total : £722.75 (includes shipping : £12.50).



He only has £700 (give or take a few £) to spend right now, I was thinking he could add an ssd later on down the line and possibly another GPU if needed.
He does not need a copy of windows, a mouse nor a monitor but needs a keyboard.
Any suggestions?

Cheers
 
Thanks for the quick responce, if it preforms better the FX-6 does look like a lot better value for money.
Probly will have to change the CPU cooler as the Hyper 412S dosent support AM3+?
Also will the slower RAM speed make any differance? As the Patriot memory is £10 and faster
 
Right,

The FX6300 will be better and you should be able to get 4Ghz out of it on that board.

AM2/AM3/AM3+ all have the same heatsink fitments, its just the socket that's different.

Piledriver FX doesnt benefit from faster RAM, the APU would as its built-in gfx core relies on fast RAM to perform well.
 
I know where you're coming from. My first case was terrible, but to be honest I would buy it again if it means spending more money on components that matter. Once you have your components in the case then (hopefully) you won't be touching it until the next upgrade. As long as it's not a complete eye sore my case can be as cheap as you like! But a nice case is definitely nicer to work with.

Just to make it clear. I agree with you that it's good to have a decent case but IMO I would rather have better components than an easy to work with case.
 
I've spoken with him and he likes the look of Stulid's first build and he would be happy with that.

However seeing the Intel build fit into his price range has made me wonder if perhaps that is a better option in the long run, especially that we talked about getting a cheaper case to begin with and then changing it down the road. (He picked the Coolermaster case)

Would it be much hastle to swap the whole system into another case when it came around to it?

Also how is that MSI motherboard? I've kinda kept away from anything but Asus/Gigabyte as they are the most reputable.
 
Well swapping cases is one of the hardest things to do as you have to obviously take everything back out (the board/CPU and cooler can come out as one) then transfer everything into a new case and make the cables tidy again.

Plus cheap cases cut your hands up, usually due to a lack of rolled edges on the metal work.

Also Haswell benefits from fast RAM again, so you may want to look at 1866Mhz kits or higher again.
 
Swapping a case is not a big job. If you know what your doing then 30mins tops. If not then maybe an hour! MSI is a good brand.

If an i5 fits in the budget I would never even think about AMD! But again this is my opinion.
 
Will have to see how nice he is to me before I convince him to go intel instead of AMD :D

Swapping a case is not a big job. If you know what your doing then 30mins tops. If not then maybe an hour! MSI is a good brand.

If an i5 fits in the budget I would never even think about AMD! But again this is my opinion.

I've never swapped a case before but I would be willing to try it, dosen't seem that hard.

Same, the i5 haswell is much better than the AMD chip, would rather see him with an intel system over AMD, but its upto him at the end of the day.
 
Will have to see how nice he is to me before I convince him to go intel instead of AMD :D



I've never swapped a case before but I would be willing to try it, dosen't seem that hard.

Same, the i5 haswell is much better than the AMD chip, would rather see him with an intel system over AMD, but its upto him at the end of the day.


Think of it like this. You will buy all these parts, so your going to have to build it. So when you come to swapping the case it won't be your first time :)
 
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