First build for under £500 - opinions

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This will be the first pc that I will have built, so I am after opinions on spec, or if you think there will be bottlenecks/problems with what I have chosen, and if I could improve anywhere.

I'm trying to keep this as cheap as possible but have a budget of £500.

This is for my 9 year old son, he plays stuff like Age of Empires, CS:GO, COD, minecraft type stuff.

MOBO: MSI 970 Gaming AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £69.99
CASE: Aerocool GT Black Edition Mid tower - Black £23.99
PROC: AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor – Retail £79.99
MEMORY: Avexir Core Red Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16001104G-2IR) - Red Light £59.99
CPU COOLER: Raijintek EreBoss High Performance CPU Cooler £29.99
HD: Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache £43.99
PSU: Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' £34.99
GC: Sapphire Radeon R7 265 Dual-X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £109.99

This is under budget but still need to get keyboard + mouse and wifi card.

Will I need to buy anything else - cables etc?

Cheers

Rob
 
Hi,

What about OS?

You dont need to spend so much on the cooler,

YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 270 TurboDUO 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £113.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £79.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
1 x Avexir Core Red Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16001104G-2IR) - Red Light £59.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-DS3P AMD 970A (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £50.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x CM Storm Devastator Gaming Bundle - USB Keyboard & Mouse £29.99
1 x Aerocool GT Black Edition Mid tower - Black £23.99
1 x Raijintek Aidos Direct Contact CPU Cooler £14.99
Total : £487.50 (includes shipping : £8.00).




Free shipping - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18630207

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Or with a 280,

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Radeon R9 280 Gaming 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £149.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £79.99
1 x Avexir Core Red Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16001104G-2IR) - Red Light £59.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-DS3P AMD 970A (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £50.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x CM Storm Devastator Gaming Bundle - USB Keyboard & Mouse £29.99
1 x Aerocool GT Black Edition Mid tower - Black £23.99
1 x Raijintek Aidos Direct Contact CPU Cooler £14.99
Total : £523.50 (includes shipping : £8.00).




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But I dont think much about that case, this one has a window and red led fan,

YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 270 TurboDUO 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £113.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £79.99
1 x Avexir Core Red Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16001104G-2IR) - Red Light £59.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-DS3P AMD 970A (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £50.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 450W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x Corsair Carbide Series SPEC-01 Mid Tower Gaming Case (CC-9011050-WW) £38.99
1 x CM Storm Devastator Gaming Bundle - USB Keyboard & Mouse £29.99
1 x Raijintek Aidos Direct Contact CPU Cooler £14.99
Total : £497.00 (includes shipping : £11.75).




£482.90 with free delivery.

Then add wifi (either add in card or USB).
 
stulid said:
Its cheaper, still good enough for a hex core FX, but not the Eight core FXs.
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It's fine for the FX-8 CPUs, particularly when you factor in the 'e' FX8s. The older DS3 (note the lack of 'p') was a bit crappy with no vrm cooling, but gigabyte did an overhaul especially to cope with the 125w chips. You probably wouldn't see much of an overclock on a 8350, though
 
cheesyboy said:
It's fine for the FX-8 CPUs, particularly when you factor in the 'e' FX8s. The older DS3 (note the lack of 'p') was a bit crappy with no vrm cooling, but gigabyte did an overhaul especially to cope with the 125w chips. You probably wouldn't see much of an overclock on a 8350, though
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Yes the 95w "e" ones,but the 125W ones will want a good VRM setup, this board is 4+1 phases, the UD3P is 8+2 or something like that and a better fit.
 
stulid said:
Yes the 95w "e" ones,but the 125W ones will want a good VRM setup, this board is 4+1 phases, the UD3P is 8+2 or something like that and a better fit.
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Yeah, the UD3p is the one to go for for overclocking - performs almost as well as the top-end mobos like the Sabertooth and Crosshair Formula. But at stock, or mild overclock, the DS3P is fine for an 8350.
 
Stu - I am going to go with the last build you posted. But swapping the case for a Zalman Z9 Plus.

A couple of questions:

Do I need to buy anything else for when I'm putting it together?

Would I be better buying a 128gb SSD and picking up a mech drive later on? To be honest I think he might have to settle with the mech as still need to get mouse/kb + OS.

Cheers

Rob
 
Couldn't justify that as budget hit £513 - big thanks to overclockers for free next day delivery. Although he will probably order one with his xmas money.

Just wanted to say thanks for your help Stu and Cheesy. I'm sure there will be more questions to come when I'm building the thing!

Rob
 
I know its a big improvement - I've got one!

Already gone over budget and he had the choice of 1tb or small ssd - cannot get everything in life.
 
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