'Budget' Build

Kavalree

Kavalree

Kavalree

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OK, so, my workmates all praise Intel to high heaven. I own a beastly gaming rig but I am looking at using my spare parts to build a budget rig and would like to know a few things first.

I have an Antec 650W PSU, MSI GTX460 (Hawk Talon Attack) and a Corsair 300R case I'm not using. Along with this, I have a spare DVD drive and can source a 1TB HDD dirt cheap.

So, this brings me to the 'meat' of the 'budget' build.

I am looking at getting an M5A-USB3 ASUS AM3+ board and either the FX4130 OR FX6300 chip to go inside. And then I'd need RAM, which brings me onto another point, shall I swap out my 2x4GB IEM Patriot RAM for 2x8GB Crucial Ballistix for my own rig and stick the 2x4's in the 'budget' or just buy 1 8Gb CB stick?

If the above is no good, what do you suggest?

I'm looking at keeping costs under £200 for CPU/MOBO/RAM, under £150 if possible. I'm not making money on it, it's a gift to a mate who's pc has 1GB RAM...
 
Don't know what your mate would use it for but it might be worth checking out the APU's that AMD provided? Its a good budget solution to provide decent processor and graphical power. Although in terms of CPU power a 6300 would be better.
 
He likes playing FPS games, his old PC went pop and just can't afford a new one for reasons. He also play WoW and that LoL crap. Obviously he can't really play anything atm.

I build MANY Kaveri systems a day, I know they ain't bad at all for what they are, now, I'm not sure how much better a 7850K + 240 are compared to say, 6300 + GTX460...
 
Sorry I just noticed you said you had a spare 460 :D
Either a 6300 would be a good idea or something like a Pentium K but only really if he plans on up upgrading it which I assume he wouldnt be. If I remember correctly with the AMD chips you ideally want a board with good VRM's because it can start get quite toasty with the voltage being put through.
 
Why does it have to be an Asus board? - imo Gigabyte is better, UK RMA and boards are as good, if not better.


I'd take the i3 over the Pentium any day, with overclocking the Pentium may have better single core performance but the hyperthreading will become very useful in multi-thread programs/games
 
Shivy011 said:
Why does it have to be an Asus board? - imo Gigabyte is better, UK RMA and boards are as good, if not better.


I'd take the i3 over the Pentium any day, with overclocking the Pentium may have better single core performance but the hyperthreading will become very useful in multi-thread programs/games
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I'm in bed with Asus ;)

I hear you regarding the Gigabyte though. I'm looking at one for myself...
 
Im a gigabyte Person too, Had both Asus and Gigabyte and had all kinds of trouble with my asus board (though Asus was an AMD rig and Gigabyte was an intel rig).

The UK RMA and overall quality of customer service is a great bonus for Gigabyte, and cheaper prices too. All in one. :)

I agree with the i3 over the Pentium K for this build but for overall budget rigs and 'photoshop' rigs where most programs are single threaded the Pentium K is a good step onto the Intel ladder, especially if you like to OC. :)
 
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I'm a gigabyte man too, as doomedspeed said the UK RMA base and cheaper to start out with in the first place makes buying Gigabyte a bit of an no brainer.
 
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