Build woes

[W4F7YCR4NK3R]

Hi all I'm building a budget tower for my child, whos obsessed with minecraft and sims3. I have been looking at going amd for a change but I'm not sure to get a piledriver or. A richland I'm looking to spend about £450 for CPU, 16 gb memory. Gfx card, mobo case. I have a hard disk
I hope you can help

 

[Idleman]

If this is just for gaming, why do you need 16GB of ram, 8 is more than enough.

 

[jms198]

8 or even 4 gb ram would save some cash.

I'm pretty sure minecraft and sims are not very graphically intensive. Perhaps the iGPU on a FX6800 would cope. AFAIK faster ram gives an improvement.

Kaveri; the next AMD APU is uot in Jan is is touted as being quite good.

 

[Idleman]

This, assuming you have an OS.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 270 "BF4 Edition" 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £139.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £79.99
1 x Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £75.95
1 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVI38G160C9K) £49.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £47.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020058-UK) £37.99
Total : £441.50 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 

[DaleTheWhale]

edit: missed you had a HDD....

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 270 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £134.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £79.99
1 x Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £75.95
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L8 500W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - With 120mm Silent Wing Fan Built in £53.99
1 x BitFenix Shinobi USB3.0 Gaming Case - Black £49.99
1 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVI38G160C9K) £49.99
1 x OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £476.89 (includes shipping : £12.50).

 

[TooMuchCheese]

No cooler with those builds guys? Surely you're not gonna leave him using the retail cooler, are ya?

 

[Idleman]

No cooler with those builds guys? Surely you're not gonna leave him using the retail cooler, are ya?

Hey, it`s winter mate, just leave the window open.

 

[TooMuchCheese]

I'd be concerned about the noise more than temps myself, though i guess having the window open would help create more ambient noise(ie. a distraction).

Seriously though, add a cooler to the spec..

 

[W4F7YCR4NK3R]

Thanks for the help. I was thinking 16gb because minecraft does struggle with some mod packs and not forgetting sims 4 is coming too. So we're not liking this a10 Richland CPU?

 

[Idleman]

Is Sims and Minecraft the only games that will be played?

 

[W4F7YCR4NK3R]

Not really mate she likes fps too .I want it so I can upgrade it a lil maybe. Do you know what I mean?
I was looking at the pile driver but it's oldish tech I didn't wanna get stuck with a defunct mobo

 

[Idleman]

Not really mate she likes fps too .I want it so I can upgrade it a lil maybe. Do you know what I mean?
I was looking at the pile driver but it's oldish tech I didn't wanna get stuck with a defunct mobo

The Asus is a decent mobo for the price and you can always upgrade the Cpu to an 8320, if she needs a bit more processor grunt in the future.
Or, look around for a secondhand i5(2500k,3570k) and a decent P67, Z68 or Z77 mobo.

 

[DaleTheWhale]

Thanks for the help. I was thinking 16gb because minecraft does struggle with some mod packs and not forgetting sims 4 is coming too. So we're not liking this a10 Richland CPU?

Minecraft will be fine with 8GB, I run a modded server and play with a 256x texture pack on my machine and it only takes up about 3GB max if we have a lot going on.

(FTB is what I'm currently hosting on my PC.)

 

[W4F7YCR4NK3R]

Hi there is there any alterna ives to the memory,its outta stock and gone up in price. am I looking for the same Latency 9 9 9 24. Thanks. In advance
Wafty
The gfx cards outta stock too

 

[Idleman]

Here you go, nice little bargain.

YOUR BASKET
1 x GeIL 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz VALUE PLUS Dual Channel (GVP38GB1600C9DC) £40
Total : £48.70 (includes shipping : £7.25).