Thoughts on build

[tezza1982]

I have £300 to put together a budget 1080p gaming rig,

I already have the following spare items on a shelf gathering dust so stuff I already have are as follows:

Antec Kuhler 120mm watercooler
OCZ ZS 550 Watt PSU
Corsair 120gb SSD
3TB Seagate Drive

The parts I have picked are as follows:

Can I do better or is this OK?

 

[tamzzy]

intel:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R7 265 Dual-X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £89.99
1 x Intel Core i3-4130 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £82.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £49.99
1 x Asus H81M-PLUS Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £40.99
1 x Silverstone SST-PS09B Precision Midi-Tower - Black £31.99
Total : £305.56 (includes shipping : £8.00).



amd:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R7 265 Dual-X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £89.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £77.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £49.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-DS3P AMD 970A (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £48.95
1 x BitFenix Neos ATX Tower Black/Black £29.99
Total : £306.50 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 

[ExRayTed]

I have £300 to put together a budget 1080p gaming rig,

I already have the following spare items on a shelf gathering dust so stuff I already have are as follows:

Antec Kuhler 120mm watercooler
OCZ ZS 550 Watt PSU
Corsair 120gb SSD
3TB Seagate Drive

The parts I have picked are as follows:

Can I do better or is this OK?

Utterly pointless buying a 'K' series CPU without buying a Z series motherboard to overclock with. The H97 boards don't allow overclocking

 

[tezza1982]

Utterly pointless buying a 'K' series CPU without buying a Z series motherboard to overclock with. The H97 boards don't allow overclocking

Im sorry but thats where you are wrong,

Asus implemented overclocking for the pentium anniversary edition on the H97 chipsets.

Please can you make sure you know what you are talking about before diving in with a terse post.

 

[tamzzy]

Utterly pointless buying a 'K' series CPU without buying a Z series motherboard to overclock with. The H97 boards don't allow overclocking

actually, that's not quite the case.
http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/as...or_h97h87b85_and_h81_series_motherboards.html
for now at least. intel might force asus to close this loophole in the near future though.

 

[tamzzy]

Asus implemented overclocking for the pentium anniversary edition on the H97 chipsets.

they did it for all their non-z boards, so if you really wanted, you can save some more £££ by getting a h81 board

 

[Doomedspeed]

The Funny thing about this spec is a Z97 board is only £1 more..

Personally I'd get a Z97 board and the Pentium K then get a secondhand GPU, maybe a 7950 or GTX 670. they are around the £100-£120 mark