Help With A First Build

adamnuk

adamnuk

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Hey Folks!

I am building a pc which I haven't done for a long time and I have been out of the loop for a long while.

I have a budget of £470 max for a gaming pc the sort of games i will be playing are Counter Strike Global Offensive, BF3 and Fifa 13.

The system I have put together on my budget is:

HIS HD 7850 IceQ X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
AMD Bulldozer FX-6 Six Core 6100 Black Edition 3.30Ghz
Gigabyte 970A-D3 AMD 970A (Socket AM3+)
Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s
OcUK Galaxy III Tower Case - Black (500W PSU)
Kingston Blu 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
Samsung SH-S222BB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter

Which comes to Total : £466.02 delivered

Is that more or less the best I can do on the specified budget?

Thanks guys
 
Craigus said:
Could you not stretch that extra bit? I was in a similar position, but thought when I am already spending x amount another £100 was worth it for a good jump in performance.

Budget may not allow obviously, if you do get that setup though you can get 8gb RAM for a few more quid.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-114-GL
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Yeah I have £300 saved up and it's my birthday so I have been given £150 towards a pc.

As long as it can play/run the above mentioned games without any problems I would generally be happy with it.
 
Not be upgrading anything for a while as long as its performing OK then I wont need to but when I do get enough money I would probably think about another GPU and running crossfire.

IncognitoX: That does look like a goof build I just don't like micro ATX motherboards I find them a bit restricting
 
I just don't want to get a pc that for the budget AMD could do pretty well than getting Intel and as soon as I get it count down the days until I can afford to upgrade the CPU because it's not performing on the games as well as I'd like
 
That does make sense, How does this weight up as an alternative?

Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail
MSI GeForce GTX 650 OC Power Edition 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
OCZ CoreXtreme 500w '80 Plus' Power Supply
BitFenix Merc Alpha Gaming Case - Black
Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX)
Samsung SH-S222BB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM

£476.02 Including Delivery

Would the GPU be up to the job?
 
it's not as good no but its a compromise between the earlier system you suggested or is it really not worth getting a gpu for around £100?
 
Haha got you Mei :)

Well I have re jiggled and think I can just about push my budget to the £500 mark but thats the tightest I can go would you say the following is a good setup?

HIS HD 7850 IceQ X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H785QN2G2M) w/ Nexuiz, Sleeping Dogs & Dirt Showdown PC Games £167.99
Intel Core i3-3220 3.30GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £99.95
Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £81.98
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM £45.98
OCZ CoreXtreme 500w '80 Plus' Power Supply £34.99
BitFenix Merc Alpha Gaming Case - Black £27.98
Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £25.99
Samsung SH-S222BB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99

£513.96 Delivered

Anything where cost could be shaved off anywhere for equally performing cheap components?

Thanks for the help so far guys much appreciated
 
I do have OS.

Are AMD processors really that bad?

I can remember the first pc I ever built and it had the socket 949 AMD 64 bit processor and that was fine have things changed since then?
 
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