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xercia

xercia

xercia

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Recently I've been using a refurbished laptop and its been running okay, managed to run league of legends on around 30 fps but lately its been fluctuating due to constant updates putting a challenge on my 1GB ram xD so in short I'm looking to make a new build/ buy a set from a site and run league and most other dota /modern pc games at around 50-80 fps on a tower(Far cry and stuff like battlefield wont really need to be included in this as I'm not a hardcore gamer wanting to max graphics settings) and also on a side note if a keyboard+ monitor could be included it would be a great help, the over all price range I'm willing to pay is around £600- £650. There is no rush as I'm getting payed next week so if anyone could give a few ideas that would be a great help! :) and as well if it would be possible to make room for improvements in the future
 
Hello and welcome to the forum :)

Quick spec below,

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 270X Boost OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Card £131.99
1 x Iiyama Prolite E2483HS-B1 24" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £113.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £77.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £49.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-DS3P AMD 970A (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £48.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £39.98
1 x BitFenix Neos ATX Tower Black/Silver £29.99
1 x Raijintek Themis Direct Contact CPU Cooler £19.99
1 x Zalman ZM-K200M Multimedia/Gaming Keyboard £11.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £10.99
Total : £606.84 (includes shipping : £12.50).



or if you fancy a SSD the spec below:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 270X Boost OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Card £131.99
1 x Iiyama Prolite E2483HS-B1 24" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £113.99
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £79.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £77.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £49.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-DS3P AMD 970A (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £48.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £39.98
1 x BitFenix Neos ATX Tower Black/Silver £29.99
1 x Raijintek Themis Direct Contact CPU Cooler £19.99
1 x Zalman ZM-K200M Multimedia/Gaming Keyboard £11.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £10.99
Total : £686.83 (includes shipping : £12.50).

 
xercia said:
in short I'm looking to make a new build/ buy a set from a site and run league and most other dota /modern pc games at around 50-80 fps on a tower(Far cry and stuff like battlefield wont really need to be included in this as I'm not a hardcore gamer wanting to max graphics settings)
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xercia said:
with regards to the gfx card would it be better scrapping that and saving up a little bit more for the 290 tri x Oc ?
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Hi Xercia,

Funny you mention Battlefield because the 270X runs BF4 capably on Ultra @ 1920 x 1080 and 60Hz. See here - http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2013/11/13/amd-radeon-r9-270-review/4

So you're actually being overspecced (not really, it'll be better that way) according to what you said, and now you ask about a 290? Tsk tsk... ;)

In short:

R9 270X / GTX 760 = very good for 1920 x 1080 @ 60Hz.

R9 280 / R9 280X / GTX 770 = excellent for 1920 x 1080 @ 60Hz.

R9 290 / R9 290X / GTX 780 / GTX 780Ti = overkill for 1920 x 1080 @ 60Hz.

There's always some crossover of course, depending on the game, but that's basically it.


xercia said:
and as well if it would be possible to make room for improvements in the future
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Now this is a different story. It would be good to know which improvements you are thinking of. And unless you increase budget, a sacrifice on initial performance tends to be required in exchange for upgradability. But let's see what's on your mind first. :)
 
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xercia said:
with regards to the gfx card would it be better scrapping that and saving up a little bit more for the 290 tri x Oc ?
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Well if that means your budget is £800 I still wouldn't go for a 290 (unless it did squeeze in with the rest of my choices). You'd be looking at an Intel i5 (unlocked).

Pair that with a 280/280X and you're laughing.

If youre going to pump a little more into the GPU, with the 6300 spec, get a r9 280(non-x).
 
Now this is a different story. It would be good to know which improvements you are thinking of. And unless you increase budget, a sacrifice on initial performance tends to be required in exchange for upgradability. But let's see what's on your mind first. :)[/QUOTE]

well in regards to upgrades the first thing i'll probably be getting is 16 gb of ram as it'll help a lot then after that i'm probably going to bump up the PS to a 750w and possibly thing about upping to the r9 280 as stated before
 
xercia said:
Now this is a different story. It would be good to know which improvements you are thinking of. And unless you increase budget, a sacrifice on initial performance tends to be required in exchange for upgradability. But let's see what's on your mind first. :)
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well in regards to upgrades the first thing i'll probably be getting is 16 gb of ram as it'll help a lot then after that i'm probably going to bump up the PS to a 750w and possibly thing about upping to the r9 280 as stated before[/QUOTE]

16gb of RAM won't help atall with gaming or any normal use. The only way it'll help is with editing HUGE images in PhotoShop or rendering Videos.

The myth that 'more RAM make your system faster' is that, a myth, untrue. 8gb of RAM (2133/2400) will make your system that most responsive It can be (ssds also help).
 
No point in 16gb as Doomedspeed mentioned, will offer no speed increase.

The same goes with upping the PSU, the one specced is a quality unit and will run all single card setups, the board is not really catered for running dual cards.

The OS is not included, as you had a budget I worked to that.
 
well i could probably just wait a few more months and save up £1,000 just wanna get the best value for money really if its worth the wait please make sure its future proof for the next 5 years
 
Imo for around £800 - £900 you should be able to get a really good rig together including a monitor which should last you for a good few years - future-proofing is a very loose term though
 
is a WIDETECH ATX650W 665 Platinum PSU 650 Watt Computer Power Supply Unit IEC 50Hz better than the psu id be getting on the list? i kinda upgraded my gfx card and got a amd r9 290 4gb for 200 and tryne get a 8 core fx3820 so i need the extra wattage
 
ummm...u like this?

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if not, get this instead...

YOUR BASKET
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £46.99
Total : £56.59 (includes shipping : £8.00).



and it comes with a free game too!
 
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