Budjet Build in need of critical analysis

Blewitt101

Blewitt101

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Hello

I have brought together some components for a budjet gaming rig, i would like to have your opinions on my selections and please give me some input on changes i should make that would increase performance, lower cost or point out combatibility issues i.e. GPU not fitting into Mother board.

Build Specs:
CPU: AMD Athlon II X2 240 (£46.11)

Motherboard: MSI 770-C45 (£52.57)

GPU: 1GB XFX GTS 250 Green (£105.01)

PSU: 550W Coolermaster GX (£51.10)

Cooling for CPU: Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro v2 (£16.32)

Memory: Crucial Ballistix DDR3 PC10600 BL25664BN1337 (£48.18 x2 = £96.36)


These are all the components i have selected so far.

Items i Need:
This includes a Case, Optical Drive and Hard Drive - i would like the hard drive to be 1TB but only 7200rpm is in my price rang eand i am not sure this is good enough for gaming? (if you could show me some good ones that would be great!)

My final budjet is £500 and so far i have spent a total of £367.47 Leaving £132.53 left for Case, Optical Drive and Hard Drive. My budjet is not to stiff as i can go to £550 if necissary.


Thank you and i hope you can give me some good advice! :)

(removed links sorry my bad! :))
 
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I'd definitely recommend swapping out the GPU, get a 5770 instead. They're about £30 more on average, but they'll give you a better performance. I chose the XFX brand as an example :)

Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - £41.99
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-101-AN

Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - £79.99
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-336-WD

XFX ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-E GPU - £130.99
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-149-XF

As for an optical drive, I have one of these, and it's fine. Does the job anyway :p

LG GH22NS50 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - £18.99
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-094-LG

The case, optical drive and HDD total about £140, but the card would cost you about another £30, giving you a total cost of about £540.

You could swap the WD for a cheaper Samsung 1TB HDD which are highly rated, although I have no experience with them. Any 7200rpm drive will be more than enough for gaming :)

Hope this helps.
 
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1. you need to remove all your links to competitors they don't look to kindly on that here as this is a forum for a shop ;)

2. i'd go for this lot :)

comes to £556 with delivery from ocuk

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Ok i have looked at the spec from MonkeyKingZX and it looks beautiful.

although i am still unsure why this spec would be better it certainly does as its more expensive...

Would this spec run BFBC2,COD MW2, Crysis on Full at 1680x1050 resolution? Thanks.

Also how loud would this be?
 
faster cpu and a faster gpu, a lot of the i3 530's clock quite high quite easily :)

it can run them on full at that res, not sure about AA in bc2 (crysis may be a bit iffy but meh it's crysis so yeah you kinda expect it to be, i'd say high with shadows on low/medium) but mw2 easily with a healthy dose of AA
 
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Ok that looks great to me
I hope this is the best for the money :D:D
Thanks a lot for the spec
can i buy all the components on overclockers.co.uk yea?
and woudl they fit into a Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case as i prefer the look of this :)
thanks again
 
Personally id go for this, pre built by Overclockers,

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-210-OK&groupid=43&catid=1444&subcat=

System Specification
- Case: Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black
- Power Supply: OCZ StealthXStream II 600W
- CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 Quad Core 635 2.90GHz Processor
- Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA78LMT-US2H AMD 760G (AM3) Motherboard
- RAM: Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9
- Hard Drives: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache
- Graphics Card: Choice of the latest DirectX 10 and 11 graphic cards
- Sound: 7.1 Channel Sound (On-Board)
- Optical Drive: OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black)

Has the case u want, quadcore amd cpu @2.9ghz, and no matter what is said that is better then a dual core I3 (yes it has 4 threads but its not a true quad). With the HIs 5770 added into it the price is £585.61.

Also u can easily ring them to tweak it abit, if u wanted a diff cooler, or Harddrive and the like. That way u know it all matches as they have built, its about the same cost as doing it yourself. Its just my opinon though.
 
If you didnt want a pre-built system.

Then I would get this.

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The motherboard supports crossfire, so in the future just add another 5770
 
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MonkeykingZX said:
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This looks pretty good to me, but you need a better PSU for the HD 5770.
http://www.amd.com/us/products/desk...s/ati-radeon-hd-5770-system-requirements.aspx
450 Watt or greater power supply

I'd go for http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-111-AN&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=1088
I tend to recommend this a lot, it's a good quality budget PSU. You might also want to consider splurging on a better case, like the Antec 300.

All in all the CPU and GPU are very good and worth investing in, and the motherboard makes overclocking easy, it's the motherboard I myself have. :)
 
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May be just me but I would rather go by the system reqs set by the manufacturer than risk destroying an expensive component.
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i was using a 500w psu to power an i7 system with 2 hdd's, a sound card and a gts250 (only around 10w less than a 5770 on idle and 3w less at peak usage) whilst my modXstream was under rma, so the psu you suggested would be overkill for any system that has been suggested in this thread
 
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stulid said:
its just you.
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+1

GPU manufacturers routinely over spec the power requirements of their products. In practice, a fully spec'd i3, i5 or even i7 system (without overclocking) with a 5770 GPU would draw significant less than 300w.

Why do suppliers over state the requirements? Simple. Not all PSUs are what they claim to be. A cheap (£20) 500W PSU is likely to only be able to supply around 250W of power and probably wont be able to supply more than 150W on the 12v line.. (+ noise, + heat, + reasonable chance of trashing your new toys).

A decent quality, 400 W PSU (such as the corsair) will actually supply 400W (with a strong 12v line) 24/7 without smoking.. and at 85%+ efficiency.
 
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