Spec me up

waveydave79 · 3 Apr 2013 at 10:21

spec me:

- Budget of no more than £325 ideally. Can stretch to £350 at a push

- Needs to be AMD Looking for AMD bulldozer or piledriver if my budget can stretch.

- Will only need a small hdd for the install of windows I have 2 x 1 TB drives already for all my data.

- keyboard mouse monitor and operating system are not required

- I would be pickup up parts locally so no shipping is needed

- Already have a case (with no PSU). Lain Li full server case.

- System will not be overclocked but I would like it to run quiet. Obvoisly I expect air coolng at this price not watercooling.

- Will be using this for gaming , will only be running this on a single monitor for now, for example Id like to play Oblivion, at the highest settings at 1920 x 1200.

waveydave79 · 3 Apr 2013 at 15:00

no one able to offer a build?

honosuseri · 3 Apr 2013 at 15:05

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A10-5800K Black Edition 3.80GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD580KWOHJBOX) £99.95
1 x Plextor M5S 128GB Solid State Drive - (PX-128M5S) £82.99
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) £54.98
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-15000C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV38G186C9K) £49.99
Total : £352.91 (includes shipping : FREE).

Idleman · 3 Apr 2013 at 15:13

If you have access to the MM, I would look there, you may fine better parts, albeit second hand.

waveydave79 · 3 Apr 2013 at 15:57

little bit skeptical of the onboard APUS, I looked at reviews of the original FM1 chips. How much better are the FM2 chips?

DaleTheWhale · 3 Apr 2013 at 15:59

waveydave79 said:
little bit skeptical of the onboard APUS, I looked at reviews of the original FM1 chips. How much better are the FM2 chips?

Onboard APU's are fine as long as your not looking for ultra gaming settings etc. You won't be able to get a dedicated card on that budget.

honosuseri · 3 Apr 2013 at 16:04

Trinity gaming demo video

That's the dual core A6 using 1600mhz RAM and you can see it does well enough. If you use faster RAM it helps the IGP out. You can drop in a better GPU later on if you so wish.

A 2nd hand GPU like the nvidia 1GB 460 or AMDs 6850 would be good (~50) if you can find one. Then you could consider......

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £179.99
1 x **B Grade** Gigabyte Z68A-D3H-GEN3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 (MB-380-GI) £52.00
1 x Avexir Core Blue Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16000904G-2CW) - Blue Light £40.00
1 x XFX Pro 450W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £39.95
Total : £311.93 (includes shipping : FREE).

waveydave79 · 3 Apr 2013 at 16:27

prefer the AMD Build. Really want to go AMD way. Will look at link, thank you so far

Idleman · 3 Apr 2013 at 16:41

Lets get this straight, you are looking for:

Amd Cpu, mobo+ram, Psu, small hdd and a Gpu to play Oblivion at "at the highest settings at 1920 x 1200", all for £350.

Well, good luck with that one.

waveydave79 · 3 Apr 2013 at 17:37

Idleman said:
Lets get this straight, you are looking for:

Amd Cpu, mobo+ram, Psu, small hdd and a Gpu to play Oblivion at "at the highest settings at 1920 x 1200", all for £350.

Well, good luck with that one.

very useful response. Actually the original build that was suggested seems like a viable option and I will be looking into it.

Narj · 3 Apr 2013 at 17:48

honosuseri said:
Trinity gaming demo video

That's actually pretty damned impressive.

snips86x · 3 Apr 2013 at 17:51

Narj said:
That's actually pretty damned impressive.

Yes.....yes it is

Idleman · 3 Apr 2013 at 17:55

No small hdd.

YOUR BASKET
1 x **B Grade** Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7850 OC Windforce 2X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ Nexuiz, Sleeping Dogs & Dirt Showd (GX-100-GI) £129.95
1 x **B Grade** AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 960T Black Edition "95W Edition" 3.00GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £69.95
1 x **B Grade** Asus Crosshair III Formula AMD 790FX (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £61.56
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £39.95
1 x XFX Pro 450W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £39.95
Total : £353.35 (includes shipping : £10.00).