Just about to buy a PC from parts can you check if my build will work? Thankyou!

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Seriuosly, it's not a huge leap in price but worth it!

YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 290 PCS+ OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £215.99
1 x AOC E2460SH 24" Widescreen 1ms Gaming LED Monitor - Black £109.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320E Black Edition 3.20GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £104.99
1 x GeIL Black Dragon 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GD38GB1600C11DC) £64.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £49.99
1 x MSI 970A-G43 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £45.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £39.95
1 x Microlab M113 2.1 24W Speakers £24.95
1 x Aerocool V3X Devil Red Edition Midi-Tower - Black / Red £14.99
Total : £686.78 (includes shipping : £12.50).



You'll get free delivery with this too so it's actually £674.28 a difference of £18.40 to the other build with naff PSU!

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/sho...php?t=18630207
 
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StonedPenguin said:
Ugh? Well that's me out :)
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Thanks mr black n white, I see why you call yourself the penguin now, its your selling style.

If you were a car salesman youd give up after trying to sell a Ferrari to a brick layer when there were lots of porches and fords in the yard as well as a few skodas.
 
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You could get the 750w version for £77.99

If you are planning on crossfiring though now's the time to say? otherwise when you decide to do it you'll need another GPU as well as a PSU and mobo.
 
Is a more powerful GPU definitely necessary? Usually there isnt that much difference in performance between modern cards, and slightly older models usually the prices difference is high but the performance difference is near to impossible to spot with the naked eye.
 
Yes, you will notice the difference, and there is quite a lot of difference between say an R9 280 and an R9 290, here's some benchmarks http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1332?vs=1068
Also I wouldn't really recommend going for an AM3+ setup now, it's pretty much a dead socket and there's no upgrade paths to speak of - if you went for 1150-Z97 then you get future (rumoured) broadwell support and you could always drop in a higher end CPU in the future
8320E is a great budget CPU, but for this budget ideally you'd be looking at Intel simply for the upgrade paths in the future
Obviously it's the OPs decision at the end of the day though :)
 
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Shivy011 said:
Yes, you will notice the difference, and there is quite a lot of difference between say an R9 280 and an R9 290, here's some benchmarks http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1332?vs=1068
Also I wouldn't really recommend going for an AM3+ setup now, it's pretty much a dead socket and there's no upgrade paths to speak of - if you went for 1150-Z97 then you get future (rumoured) broadwell support and you could always drop in a higher end CPU in the future
8320E is a great budget CPU, but for this budget ideally you'd be looking at Intel simply for the upgrade paths in the future
Obviously it's the OPs decision at the end of the day though :)
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Im not gonna upgrade this pc its just a budget pc to last as long as the modern concoles I want it to out perform them, and it does. When the next generation of consoles come out in however many years I will buy a new PC, upgrades seem a pointless to me its like you dont get that much extra performance (not enough to meet the demands of future games) and are better off buying a whole new rig most of the time.
 
Gigacock said:
Im not gonna upgrade this pc its just a budget pc to last as long as the modern concoles I want it to out perform them, and it does. When the next generation of consoles come out in however many years I will buy a new PC, upgrades seem a pointless to me its like you dont get that much extra performance (not enough to meet the demands of future games) and are better off buying a whole new rig most of the time.
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Ok it's up to you :)
 
Shivy011 said:
Yes, you will notice the difference, and there is quite a lot of difference between say an R9 280 and an R9 290, here's some benchmarks http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1332?vs=1068
Also I wouldn't really recommend going for an AM3+ setup now, it's pretty much a dead socket and there's no upgrade paths to speak of - if you went for 1150-Z97 then you get future (rumoured) broadwell support and you could always drop in a higher end CPU in the future
8320E is a great budget CPU, but for this budget ideally you'd be looking at Intel simply for the upgrade paths in the future
Obviously it's the OPs decision at the end of the day though :)
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Ok cool thankyou sir!
 
Don't buy anything yet, I've had a look into the mobo and I think there have been issues with it running the higher end AMD CPU's. bare with me
 
This is a safer bet I think

YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 290 PCS+ OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £215.99
1 x AOC E2460SH 24" Widescreen 1ms Gaming LED Monitor - Black £109.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320E Black Edition 3.20GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £104.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX316C10FBK2/8) £65.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-DS3P AMD 970A (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £50.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £39.95
1 x Microlab M113 2.1 24W Speakers £24.95
1 x Aerocool V3X Devil Red Edition Midi-Tower - Black / Red £14.99
Total : £692.82 (includes shipping : £12.50).

 
I tell you scan really messed up, I built a system on their website, I asked in the pre sales forum on will it work etc and I asked yesterday and still no response today, you would think they wanted the money, but you guys pounced on my question immediately and im tempted to say sod it to scan, also they charge like 20 pounds for delivery you guys are free on deliveries.
 
Rhyswh said:
This is a safer bet I think

YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 290 PCS+ OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £215.99
1 x AOC E2460SH 24" Widescreen 1ms Gaming LED Monitor - Black £109.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320E Black Edition 3.20GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £104.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX316C10FBK2/8) £65.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-DS3P AMD 970A (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £50.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £39.95
1 x Microlab M113 2.1 24W Speakers £24.95
1 x Aerocool V3X Devil Red Edition Midi-Tower - Black / Red £14.99
Total : £692.82 (includes shipping : £12.50).

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How do I put that in my basket?
 
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