AMD FX-4170 Gaming build, Nvida GPU, Watercooling

[Bacon?]

PS. Why are you on a tech forum if you want people to help buy you bad stuff? Go to a highstreet shop and get them to give you advice. It will be worse so it will keep you happy!

 

[Orcvader]

Oh look what do we have here...

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7850 OC Windforce 2X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ Nexuiz & Dirt Showdown PC Games £194.99
1 x AMD Bulldozer FX-8 Eight Core 8120 Black Edition 3.10Ghz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail with FREE Dirt Showdown PC Game **£20 Cashback** £129.95
1 x Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 AMD 990FX (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard ** FREE NEXUIZ GAME ** £113.99
1 x NZXT Phantom Enthusiast USB3.0 Full Tower Case - Red/White £109.99
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT128M4SSD2) £94.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H80 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/LGA2011/AM2/AM3) (CWCH80) £79.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) £64.99
1 x OCZ ZT 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply £63.98
1 x TeamGroup Elite 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38192M1600HC11DC) £29.99
2 x Scythe Gentle Typhoon 120mm 1850 RPM - 3 Pin £14.98 (£29.96)
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
Total : £943.31 (includes shipping : £13.75).

*Tries to hide in Intel statements*

 

[Ethermaster]

Bacon? fully star out the swear word matey

Moving on Oliver, the guys are trying to help you to improve your build the Intel i5 chip will crush any AMD chip, and for the money you are parting with we don't want you to have an system that will only be as good as one off the shelf in the purple place and pay £200 extra for it. You should be able to that kinda cash to go much much faster and not to have to upgrade next year.

 

[Martini1991]

Oh look what do we have here...




*Tries to hide in Intel statements*

A CPU bottleneck

But a better build by far.

 

[Bacon?]

Oh look what do we have here...




*Tries to hide in Intel statements*

A bad machine?
Well apart from the decent parts of course

 

[OliverDavis]

I will break it down with prices so all of you understand where the cost is coming from:

CPU: Fx-4170 = £104.99 inc VAT

Motherboard to support with great features: ASRock Fatal1ty 990FX = £157.99 inc VAT

So less than a third is spent due to it being AMD.

GPU: GTX 560ti 2gb Edition = £215.99 inc VAT

Case: NZXT Phantom Enthusiast USB3.0 = £109.99 inc VAT

PSU: Xigmatek Centauro 800W = £86.99 inc VAT

Watercooling: Corsair Hydro H80 = £79.99 inc VAT

X2 Quiet High Flow fans for H80 to reduce noise: Scythe Gentle Typhoon = £29.98 inc VAT

HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB = £64.99 inc VAT

RAM: Patriot Viper Xtreme 8GB = £39.95 inc VAT

Optical Drive: Cheap One for Windows Install Only as I'll use Steam = £13.99 inc VAT

It is mainly the other components I have chosen which raised the cost, like the £110 case for example, or the £220 GPU.

So please stop with this Intel crap.

 

[Ethermaster]

Oh look what do we have here...




*Tries to hide in Intel statements*

Much better AMD based build for only £20 more even if you really do want to use AMD rather then Intel we could have speced you a much more powerfull machine for your hard earned cash.

 

[Bacon?]

So please stop with this Intel crap.

Cept AMD is the **** one.

 

[T345]

560ti for £226?

 

[jeff6475]

yea it aint just the AMD that makes your build suck its the rest of it aswell

 

[Martini1991]

I will break it down with prices so all of you understand where the cost is coming from:

CPU: Fx-4170 = £104.99 inc VAT

Motherboard to support with great features: ASRock Fatal1ty 990FX = £157.99 inc VAT

So less than a third is spent due to it being AMD.

GPU: GTX 560ti 2gb Edition = £215.99 inc VAT

Case: NZXT Phantom Enthusiast USB3.0 = £109.99 inc VAT

PSU: Xigmatek Centauro 800W = £86.99 inc VAT

Watercooling: Corsair Hydro H80 = £79.99 inc VAT

X2 Quiet High Flow fans for H80 to reduce noise: Scythe Gentle Typhoon = £29.98 inc VAT

HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB = £64.99 inc VAT

RAM: Patriot Viper Xtreme 8GB = £39.95 inc VAT

Optical Drive: Cheap One for Windows Install Only as I'll use Steam = £13.99 inc VAT

It is mainly the other components I have chosen which raised the cost, like the £110 case for example, or the £220 GPU.

So please stop with this Intel crap.

BUT FOR THE SAME PRICE YOU CAN GET A MUCH FASTER PC.

WHAT THE HELL IS SO FLIPPING HARD TO UNDERSTAND?

THE 7850 BEATS THE 560TI AND IS CHEAPER, BUT NO!

 

[LukieBoy007]

£216 for a 560ti?

Honestly, even a i3 2120 would be better than your chosen CPU.

 

[T345]

I feel sorry for him
Just listen, for £20 more you can get an amazing AMD build (compared with what you bought)

 

[jeff6475]

you can get a 7950 for a few quid more than your paying for that 560ti (not from OCUK,altho OCUK have had some great prices on 7950)

 

[Bacon?]

OP should get this xD


YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Bulldozer FX-8 Eight Core 8150 Black Edition 3.60Ghz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail with H20 Cooler with FREE Dirt Showdown PC Game **£20 Cashback** £239.99
1 x Gigabyte 990FXA-UD7 AMD 990FX (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard ** FREE NEXUIZ GAME ** £191.99
1 x OcUK Rage GT 800W PSU 80+ Dual Rail "80 Plus" Efficient Power Supply £70.99
1 x Crucial 1GB DDR PC3200 CL3 400MHz 184-Pin Module (CT12864Z40B) £30.59
Total : £544.96 (includes shipping : £9.50).

 

[T345]

 

[Martini1991]

you can get a 7950 for a few quid more than your paying for that 560ti (not from OCUK,altho OCUK have had some great prices on 7950)

Wouldn't matter, bottleneck

 

[OliverDavis]

Hmm... not being too picky but...

AMD + MB:

Spoiler

YOUR BASKET
1 x ASRock Fatal1ty 990FX Professional AMD 990FX (Socket AM3+) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £157.99
1 x AMD Bulldozer FX-4 Quad Core 4170 Black Edition 4.20Ghz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail with FREE Dirt Showdown PC Game **£10 Cashback** £104.99
Total : £274.38 (includes shipping : £9.50).

Intel alternative:

Spoiler

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £167.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £82.99
Total : £262.38 (includes shipping : £9.50).

Better CPU performance for a little cheaper.

I would have also got a 7850 instead of the 560 Ti since it's better performance for the price as seen here on this Anadtech benchmark (not to mention it's massive overclocking headroom):

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7850 OC Windforce 2X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ Nexuiz & Dirt Showdown PC Games £194.99
Total : £205.79 (includes shipping : £9.00).



I also would have got this Corsair PSU instead: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-052-CS&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=1084



You can drop OcUK a webnote to change the order if you wish: https://www.overclockers.co.uk/webnote.php

My original choice was the Corsair, but the must have only received stock today as yesterday they were out of almost all Corsair PSU's

 

[jeff6475]

Wouldn't matter, bottleneck

with a i5 3570k tho

 

[LukieBoy007]

Well, it's your money to waste to all I have to say is good luck.

This bit does make me laugh though:

Also they were picked on ability to upgrade in the future.

You literally have nowhere to go CPU-wise.