Help build a Gaming PC

[erazor51]

Please can you help me spec a gaming rig. My friend wants an AMD cpu powered rig and my last AMD build was during the Athlon 64 days so i would appreciate the help.

£600 budget. Don't need a case, just the internal components.

AMD cpu
16gb ram
750w PSU min
rest anything you guys think is best for £600 budget


Thanks

 

[ShivP]

16GB RAM is over the top for gaming, 8GB is sufficient. Will he be video editing etc? Also ideally I'd go for Intel > AMD, as the upgrades paths are more open compared to AM3+ (which is pretty much a dead socket)

Is 750W for future SLI/Xfire support? A decent spec should be able to run on a good 550W PSU

YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus H81M-K Intel Core i5 DIY Micro ATX Motherboard, CPU & RAM Bundle £225.97
1 x **B Grade** Gigabyte GeForce GTX 770 WindForce 3x OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-N770OC-2GD) £169.99
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £79.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £53.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £39.95
1 x Raijintek Aidos Direct Contact CPU Cooler £14.99
Total : £594.48 (includes shipping : £8.00).

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This should play the latest games at very high settings @ 1080p easily

FX 8320 vs i5 4440 (4670k in this benchmark but the two are similar at stock so it is comparable) - http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/837?vs=697

Generally the i5 is faster, and in the future you should be able to drop in an i7 with no problems

What case will all this be going in to?

 

[Doomedspeed]

Shivy is spot on in his think, i was going to write the same thing, Intel gives abetter upgrade path and (overall) a better current range of CPU's too..

If He HAS TO have AMD though, something like this would work.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 280X TurboDUO 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £199.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £107.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-UD3P AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £65.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TPKD38G1600HC11DC01) £59.99
1 x Crucial MX100 128GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT128MX100SSD1) £54.98
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £53.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £39.95
1 x Raijintek Aidos Direct Contact CPU Cooler £14.99
Total : £607.46 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 

[ShivP]

Shivy is spot on in his think, i was going to write the same thing, Intel gives abetter upgrade path and (overall) a better current range of CPU's too..

If He HAS TO have AMD though, something like this would work.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 280X TurboDUO 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £199.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £107.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-UD3P AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £65.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TPKD38G1600HC11DC01) £59.99
1 x Crucial MX100 128GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT128MX100SSD1) £54.98
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £53.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £39.95
1 x Raijintek Aidos Direct Contact CPU Cooler £14.99
Total : £607.46 (includes shipping : £8.00).

Agreed, and looking at that the CPU + mobo + RAM specced by doomed comes out more than the H81M-K bundle so there's an obvious choice!