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rhysduck

rhysduck

rhysduck

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Right, Mum's pc has died a death so time for something a bit better and not pre-built.

Budget would be around £300 for the following;

CPU
RAM
MOBO (Mini Itx)
PSU
possibly an SSD or 2x HDDs in RAID.

I'm thinking
i3 (£90 on THIS WEEK ONLY),
8gb (~£40)
Asrock H61M-ITX (£54)
Cooler Master Elite Power 500w (£30)
which should leave some room for some drives or 2nd hand ssd.
 
 
H61 mobo wont have sataIII which means you cant use a sataIII SSD to its fullest. I'm using the 840 Basic as the 830 is out of stock :(

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A10-5800K Black Edition 3.80GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD580KWOHJBOX) £86.39
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TD120BW) £83.99
1 x ASRock FM2A75M-ITX AMD A75 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard £73.99
1 x Antec High Current Gamer 400W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £40.00
1 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVI38G213C1K) £39.95
Total : £324.31 (includes shipping : FREE).



Or mATX with a case. Think i'd prefer this GB mobo even though it isnt mini-itx as you asked for

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A10-5800K Black Edition 3.80GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD580KWOHJBOX) £86.39
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TD120BW) £83.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A85XM-D3H AMD A85X Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 micro ATX Motherboard £58.99
1 x Antec High Current Gamer 400W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £40.00
1 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVI38G213C1K) £39.95
1 x Zalman T1 Mini Tower Case - Black £17.99
Total : £327.30 (includes shipping : FREE).

 
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I'd also like to point out the Antec PSU I used is bronze rated for efficiency the OCZ 500W in the OPs "wish list" just isnt and is pretty naff to be honest.
 
Bacon? said:
Its not that isnt even power effecient its just in general a bad PSU. More like a generic than anything else.
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Never stopped you spec'ing it in the past ;)

I would trust it more than generic garbage PSUs but its the efficiency that bothers me. For a PSU to be rated even bronze it has to be atleast 80% efficient at low, mid and heavy load. The CM Elite power (got the brand right this time lol) might be cheaper but in the long run you are paying more to run the rig. Seeing as PSUs tend to have long warranties it will be used for quite some time. The XFX 450W would also be a good altenative to the Antec I used.
 
Right back on track.

How do the AMD CPU's compare to the Intel CPU's then? Must be a reason or is the availability of Intel Mini-Itx motherbaords that bad? :(
 
rhysduck said:
Thanks DoomedSpeed,

I've specced the following; how's it look?

AMD A5600K Black Edition - £79.99
Gigabyte F2A85XM-D3H - £61.99
Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 - £36.99

Thanks
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You need faster RAM, Trinity's iGPU works better with faster RAM such as:

YOUR BASKET
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXD38G2133HC11DC01) £39.95
Total : £43.86 (includes shipping : £3.26).




Also, what case is this going in?
 
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