How does this first build look...

KGNSTEVIEBOI

KGNSTEVIEBOI

KGNSTEVIEBOI

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Howdy!
Gonna be doing my first build soon....selling my Xbone to help the project!
Keepin it cheap as chips.....as most threads on here do!!

No monitor on there yet.
I'll add more SSD/HDD space as i need it!

How does it look?

Any changes you could recommend?



Cheers Steve.... :)
 
Few things to note.

Don't bother with the 4gb 270x unless your monitor is 1440p. Either get a cheaper 2gb one or a quicker one for the same price.

If you want to save a bit of money you can use a three month tree trial of Windows for now.

The motherboard could be better. I'm on my phone so can't find it - but there's an Asus board on ocuk for £80 that will let you overclock your 8320.

Don't get that PSU. Get a 550w Superflower - either the gold or bronze rated one

EDIT: Motherboard and PSU
 
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Fulax said:
Few things to note.

Don't bother with the 4gb 270x unless your monitor is 1440p. Either get a cheaper 2gb one or a quicker one for the same price.

If you want to save a bit of money you can use a three month tree trial of Windows for now.

The motherboard could be better. I'm on my phone so can't find it - but there's an Asus board on ocuk for £80 that will let you overclock your 8320.

Don't get that PSU. Get a 550w Superflower - either the gold or bronze rated one

EDIT: Motherboard and PSU
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Thanks man,
Yeah i saw the 2gb one, it comes with BF4 too, i cant see me wanting 1440p in near future.....maybe in a couple of years.....
Whats the advantage with the Superflower? Seem pretty similar to me?!?!

A three month trial would easy the strain a little!!

danr84 said:
looks fine to me apart from i dont like windows 8, used windows 7 since release and has always been fine for me
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They're pretty much the same price....give or take a little......might as well go with the newer one and get used to it!!

I'm an iMac user at the mo,
so any Windows is gonna bug the hell outta me!!!

Steve.... :)
 
KGNSTEVIEBOI said:
Thanks man,
Yeah i saw the 2gb one, it comes with BF4 too, i cant see me wanting 1440p in near future.....maybe in a couple of years.....
Whats the advantage with the Superflower? Seem pretty similar to me?!?!

A three month trial would easy the strain a little!!
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Tesco Value lasagne looks similar to Tesco's Italian lasagne - that doesn't mean they're of the same quality. The Superflower will be more efficient, more stable, longer lasting etc. It's tempting to skimp on power supplies, but never advisable.

To continue the analogy, the gold-rated Superflower would be your mother's home-made lasagne: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-003-SF&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=2057

Something else I missed: the CPU cooler you've chosen won't really offer much over the stock cooler apart from lower noise levels. You won't be doing much overclocking with it. A decent £30 cooler like the Alpenfohn Matterhorn will do you just fine. If you're not bothered about overclocking or a bit more noise, just stick with the cooler that comes with the CPU.

Using the stock cooler for now is another a way for you to save a bit of money now that can be put elsewhere in the build (like freeing up the extra £15 for the gold-rated PSU or the ASUS motherboard), and added later when you've got a bit of money to spare again.
 
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Fulax said:
Tesco Value lasagne looks similar to Tesco's Italian lasagne - that doesn't mean they're of the same quality. The Superflower will be more efficient, more stable, longer lasting etc. It's tempting to skimp on power supplies, but never advisable.

To continue the analogy, the gold-rated Superflower would be your mother's home-made lasagne: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-003-SF&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=2057

Something else I missed: the CPU cooler you've chosen won't really offer much over the stock cooler apart from lower noise levels. You won't be doing much overclocking with it. A decent £30 cooler like the Alpenfohn Matterhorn will do you just fine. If you're not bothered about overclocking or a bit more noise, just stick with the cooler that comes with the CPU.

Using the stock cooler for now is another a way for you to save a bit of money now that can be put elsewhere in the build (like freeing up the extra £15 for the gold-rated PSU or the ASUS motherboard), and added later when you've got a bit of money to spare again.
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Is this the motherboard you mentioned?
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-502-AS&groupid=701&catid=1903&subcat=2046
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS Radeon R9 270X IceQ BOOST 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £149.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £119.99
1 x Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x Kingston 120GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/120G) £65.99
1 x Avexir Core Blue Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16000904G-2CW) - Blue Light £55.99
1 x Cooler Master Silent Pro Modular 2 520w '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x NZXT Source 210 Elite Midi Tower Case - Black £39.95
1 x Cooler Master Hyper 412S CPU Cooler £28.99
Total : £649.87 (includes shipping : £12.50).



And use the Windows 8 Evaluation.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/evalcenter/dn237247.aspx
 
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Idleman said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS Radeon R9 270X IceQ BOOST 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £149.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £119.99
1 x Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x Kingston 120GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/120G) £65.99
1 x Avexir Core Blue Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16000904G-2CW) - Blue Light £55.99
1 x Cooler Master Silent Pro Modular 2 520w '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x NZXT Source 210 Elite Midi Tower Case - Black £39.95
1 x Cooler Master Hyper 412S CPU Cooler £28.99
Total : £649.87 (includes shipping : £12.50).



And use the Windows 8 Evaluation.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/evalcenter/dn237247.aspx
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Why have you picked that Ram over mine?
They're the same price?

So at the end of the 90 day evaluation, i just have to get a licence?

Steve... :)
 
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-8/update-from-preview

If you installed Windows 8.1 Preview by booting from ISO media, you can update to the final version of Windows 8.1 Pro using the Windows Store, but your system won't activate until you buy a Windows 8.1 licence and product key. You can do this by following the instructions when you activate your system, or by purchasing a DVD of Windows 8.1 Pro.

If you don't want to buy a copy of the Pro edition of Windows 8.1, you should return your PC to its previous operating system before installing Windows 8.1.
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Reads as just buy a license and activate it.
 
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