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Dave80 · 4 Jan 2013 at 12:10

I have a budget of £370 and came up with this:

Sapphire 7770 Ghz edition - 99.95
Bulldozer FX-4100 - 73.99
Gigabyte 970A-DS3 - 59.99
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB - 44.99
Corsair Builder Series CX 500W - 49.99
Crucial Ballistix Sport 4GB 1600Mhz - 25.99

= 366.90

I already have a case, optical drive and OS.

I'm not expecting to max out games like Blops 2, Battlefield 3 and Far Cry 3, as long as I can play at a fairly decent frame rate I'm satisfied.

Doomedspeed · 4 Jan 2013 at 12:15

Welcome,

That doesn't look to great. Let me break it down.

The 7770, is Bad value for money (anything under the 7850 is bad value) as the 7770 is half (if not worse) the card than the 7850 but 2/3's of the price..

The FX4100 isn't great either and Am3+ is really the wrong socket to be on for future upgrades (though the 8350 is proving pretty good).

I'd get 8GB of RAM if i were you..

That PSU is good, though you can get the 'm' Modular Version of that same PSU for the same price, so why not?

I'd Strongly suggest going for a A10-5800k Build.

What case do you have? Is your CD drive SATA?

LukieBoy007 · 4 Jan 2013 at 12:27

This is what I'd suggest, as all the points Doomed made were spot on:
YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A10-5800K Black Edition 3.80GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD580KWOHJBOX) £95.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) £64.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A85X-D3H AMD A85X Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £64.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 500w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020059-UK) £49.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXD38G2133HC11DC01) £39.95
Total : £327.31 (includes shipping : £9.50).

For a Trinity build, you will want the fastest speed RAM you can find.

Doomedspeed · 4 Jan 2013 at 12:29

LukieBoy007 said:
This is what I'd suggest, as all the points Doomed made were spot on:
YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A10-5800K Black Edition 3.80GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD580KWOHJBOX) £95.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) £64.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A85X-D3H AMD A85X Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £64.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 500w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020059-UK) £49.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXD38G2133HC11DC01) £39.95
Total : £327.31 (includes shipping : £9.50).

For a Trinity build, you will want the fastest speed RAM you can find.

a lot better Value for the money, Just so you know the A10 is still a quad core, but with really good onboard graphics which is boosted by Fast RAM..

Even some £'s left over to treat yourself to an SSD.

zakblood · 4 Jan 2013 at 12:44

and if you get any more money can always throw in a card at a later date as psu is also a good one