Spec me please

[vignezh]

I am looking at building my first PC and would need everything including OS. I am not fussed about playing games, but would like a good performance especially for multitasking including photoshop etc. Budget is £300 excluding OS.

 

[stulid]

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £83.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-DS3P AMD 970A (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £50.99
1 x Avexir Core White Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16000904G-2CIW) - White Light £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x BitFenix Neos ATX Tower Black/Gold £29.99
1 x Antec VP450P 450W '80 Plus' Continuous Power Supply £29.99
1 x MSI HD 5450 1024MB GDDR5 Low Profile PCI-Express Graphics Card £19.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £10.99
Total : £329.52 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 

[vignezh]

Sorry for being picky, but would it not be possible to build a Intel core i3 or i5 with this budget? On a separate note, I have a few SATA HDDs lying around from my laptops. Wonder if there is a way I could use one of these with this desktop?

Here's the HDD I already have.
Samsung SpinPoint M8 2.5" 320GB 5400RPM SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HN-M320MBB)

 

[stulid]

A multi core AMD CPU is going to spank a i3 in multi threaded tasks. A i5 is possible if you do have some SATA HDD lying around.



YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4590 3.30GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £137.99
1 x Gigabyte B85M-DS3H Intel B85 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £53.99
1 x Avexir Core White Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16000904G-2CIW) - White Light £49.99
1 x BitFenix Neos ATX Tower Black/Gold £29.99
1 x Antec VP450P 450W '80 Plus' Continuous Power Supply £29.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £10.99
Total : £322.54 (includes shipping : £8.00).



Dont need a GFX card as the CPU has a built-in IGP, the board has DVI/HDMI etc.

 

[vignezh]

Just edited my previous post. Please review

 

[vignezh]

Thank you Stulid. Would the laptop hard disk I mentioned on the previous post plug straight into this spec? Also would i need to buy anything else like cables etc. I am planning to get a logitech keyboard with mousepad? sorry for being so naive.

 

[stulid]

Yes you can use that, maybe add a SSD for the OS and programs and use the HDD for storage.

How about a funky AMD Kaveri build?

YOUR BASKET
1 x **B Grade** AMD Kaveri 7850K 12 Compute Core APU w/ Radeon R7 Graphics (4 CPU + 8 GPU Compute Cores) - Retail £89.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Mach Xtreme Technology 120GB 2.5" SATA 6GB/s MX-DS FUSION GT SSD (MXSSD3MDSFG-120G) £54.98
1 x Gigabyte F2A88XM-HD3 AMD A88X (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £49.99
1 x BitFenix Neos ATX Tower Black/Gold £29.99
1 x Antec VP450P 450W '80 Plus' Continuous Power Supply £29.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £10.99
Total : £331.52 (includes shipping : £8.00).



You need faster RAM with these as the built-in GFX core relies heavily on system performance and it will play games too.


All these specs should have everything you need to get them up and running.

 

[vignezh]

Would you say this Kaveri spec is better than the core i5? I am just a bit worried about the warranty. I guess you get a full 3 year warranty with i5 compared with 3months on a b grade.

 

[stulid]

Kaveri gives you a chance to play games too, the i5 on its own wont.

The i5 is the better "CPU".

But you also get better OpenCL acceleration in applications that support it with Kaveri as the GFX is so much stronger.



With Bgrade you get 90days back to OcUK and what ever remains with the manufacture.

P.S this SSD is 240GB so will hold a lot more - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-028-CR&groupid=701&catid=2104&subcat=2394