Spec My girlfriend - £400-£500
Spec me a girlfriend - £400-£500
I was glancing around the forum and read this as:
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you mde me giggle boon, you have a way with words
wait what he built his a few months ago? i thought he had it ages?
Read that too.
ITT: OP Realises his PC he bought a few months back is sucky and wants to buy a new one for his "girlfriend".
Reality is that he is probably asking you to spec one for himself so he doesn't mess up this time and then donate his 'unique' build to this girlfriend.
Well no, She just got a new Job/Apprenticeship so it is my treat for her.
If it ends up more powerful then mine, then I might as well have it as I do 3D modelling, Video Editing, Photoshopping, College Work, Actual Work and play a handful of games.
So you are still speccing it for yourself... no?
Of course it will be more powerful than your monstrosity, you know that, right?
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ITT: OP Requests a new PC for himself for £400-£500 after speccing a waste of £900 6 months ago.![]()
when you have a low end budget you dont spend 25% of your budget on a case. get that later. cheaper intel build than honos
tbh to save money i would look elsewhere for ram sorry ocuk but if you shop about you can get good 8gb set of ram 1600mhz with good timing for 30-35 quid
you cud upgrade mboard to gigabyte d3h if you liked but would cost more
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £167.99
1 x Asus P8Z77-V LX2 Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £69.98
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD10EZEX - OEM ** Single Platter ** HDD £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £43.99
1 x XFX Pro 450W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £39.95
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
1 x TP-Link 300Mbps Wireless-N USB Adapter (TL-WN821N) £12.98
1 x OcUK Black Gaming Keyboard (5105GU) £10.99
1 x Gigabyte M6800 1600DPI Gaming Mouse £8.99
Total : £478.94 (includes shipping : £11.75).
if your going to put a gfx card in soon, dont get trinity, thats more for when you dont intend on using a dedicated gpu.
if you feel this costs too much you can drop to a lower I5 for 23 quid less, or drop to an I3. the I3 will not bottleneck the 670 or 660ti and still run any game nicely. infact i used to run an i3 with 660ti and it ran battllefield ultra all settings on full no problems.
i spec'd you an intel build with descriptions on how to alter it if prices was too heavy.
tell em whats wrong with the above or what you do and dont like and ill see if i can change
the 6300 isn't much faster than an i3 3220 and when both chips are overclocked id assume the i3 would edge it. not to mention the possible upgrade path to an i5 at a later date.
The Core i3 3220 cannot be overclocked,moreover in BF3 MP alone the FX6300 is like 15% faster. So,no unless you play SC2 and Skyrim,with anything relatively modern the FX6300 tends to be as good or better.
People seem to put the SB and IB Core i3 CPUs on some massively pedestal of brilliance and I had one of them myself.
500 is a limited budget for a full Intel system.
Personally I'd give her your FX4170/560Ti/Asrock.
Buy an i5, board of your preference, 7850 2GB.
Then get the rest to your preference for your girlfriend as you're obviously opinionated in what features etc you wanted, which is why you made the AMD build you did in the first place.
Or, budget constricted keep the 560Ti and get your GF a 7770 or something, latest drivers with the GCN isn't meant to be that bad tbh.
GNC is basically an acronym for AMD's 7XXX GPU architecture.
Wouldn't personally bother with a multi GPU configuration, especially not something which is now getting a bit long in the tooth and EOL, the money would be better off put into a better single GPU (As in a few months we'll be 2 generations up from the 5XX, you could use your 560Ti for now, sell it and move on up to an 8XXX.) and frankly your 560Ti wasn't a good buy in the first place (When you bought it we were talking 7870 pricing)
I'd always likely pick the 3220 myself, as I'd put them onto a Xeon later on.
But it's not exactly a great situation to be in, we have the FX6300, which while not bad isn't my first choice of a gaming CPU, and an i3 3220, which again, isn't my first choice of a gaming CPU, it's an interim.
I'd want at least consistent i5 750 performance in that ~100 pound price region, but we don't.