What do you think of my Spec?

Karnee

Karnee

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• Fractal Design Node 304 Case by Fractal Design - £65.57

TOTAL: £508.33

What do you guys think? I just want it to be fast and able to use the Steam Stream.

How good is this as a gaming rig?
 
Have you ordered this yet? If so cancel it.
Also, what exactly do you want it for? It the one hand you say gaming PC, then you say steam streaming.

Steam Streaming typically means you'd have a powerful host, this PC running as a client, or do you mean this PC as the host and an even weaker machine as a client? Or do you mean just a normal gaming PC?

Either way, this PC's a poor choice, you're paying over the odds for the GPU and as far as gaming goes it's poor.
 
You have spent too much on the HDD/case and thus put a really slow GFX card in.

I cant even see any mention of a motherboard?


Heres a much better balanced spec,


YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 270 TurboDUO 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £109.99
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £79.99
1 x Avexir Gold Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17200C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U21331104G-2CEY) - Yellow/Gold Light £65.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £61.99
1 x Intel Pentium K Anniversary G3258 Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £55.99
1 x NZXT Hale Power 90+ 550W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply £43.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £39.95
1 x Raijintek Agos Midi Tower - White £39.95
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £13.49
Total : £526.33 (includes shipping : £12.50).

 
Wouldn't it be better going for an FX6300 with a 1TB hybrid SSD to put more money into a GPU ; GTX 770?

I just really don't agree with the Pentium suggestion.
 
Martini1991 said:
Wouldn't it be better going for an FX6300 with a 1TB hybrid SSD to put more money into a GPU ; GTX 770?
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Problem there is you are having to buy a AMD CPU.

Z97 allows overclocking of the Pentium K and support for Broadwell when they are released or any of the current Haswell/Devils canyon "K" chips so there is a "upgrade path", AMD is just doomed.
 
Martini1991 said:
Have you ordered this yet? If so cancel it.
Also, what exactly do you want it for? It the one hand you say gaming PC, then you say steam streaming.

Steam Streaming typically means you'd have a powerful host, this PC running as a client, or do you mean this PC as the host and an even weaker machine as a client? Or do you mean just a normal gaming PC?

Either way, this PC's a poor choice, you're paying over the odds for the GPU and as far as gaming goes it's poor.
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Nope, someone suggested this to me. I just wanted to see what you guys thought about it. Gaming is not a priority, I just wanted to know how it would hold up.

I have a good gaming rig right now, so I can always just stream.

stulid said:
You have spent too much on the HDD/case and thus put a really slow GFX card in.

Heres a much better balanced spec,


YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 270 TurboDUO 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £109.99
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £79.99
1 x Avexir Gold Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17200C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U21331104G-2CEY) - Yellow/Gold Light £65.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £61.99
1 x Intel Pentium K Anniversary G3258 Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £55.99
1 x NZXT Hale Power 90+ 550W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply £43.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £39.95
1 x Raijintek Agos Midi Tower - White £39.95
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £13.49
Total : £526.33 (includes shipping : £12.50).

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How does this hold up gaming wise?
 
I'd agree with the FX6300 too. My brother has one in his PC and it can handle any game he throws at it (that's with a 2GB Radeon 7870 XT too). Decent chip for the price ;).
 
Martini1991 said:
I'd really struggle to justify a pentium.
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Why?

It clocks well on the stock cooler, and performs really well for what it is.



I am a bit confused tho'. Karnee, you say this is not really for gaming as you have a gaming pc that you could stream from? But you want to know how good the rig will be for gaming? Please explain :) maybe there is no point in even having a GPU with the system anyway.
 
It performs really well for what it is, but it's still only a dual core, going into 2015 and onwards.

Sure, in a lot of the games now it's fine.
 
/shrug :p

In anything single threaded it will out perform the FX, same with two. Even coming up to 2015 that covers an awful lot. So that is a lot of time spent with the machine being faster than it could be.

FX is dead too, let's face it, not much of an upgrade path or anything.
 
Threepwood said:
Why?

It clocks well on the stock cooler, and performs really well for what it is.



I am a bit confused tho'. Karnee, you say this is not really for gaming as you have a gaming pc that you could stream from? But you want to know how good the rig will be for gaming? Please explain :) maybe there is no point in even having a GPU with the system anyway.
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Literally just curiosity. If it happens to be good for gaming that's fine. I'm not sure what sort of GPU I would need to Steam Streaming, I just assumed it would have to be at least somewhat powerful. That said I could be completely wrong and I will take a less powerful GPU if it still fulfils the other requirements.

1. Really fast.

2. Lots of Storage.

3. Can Steam Stream.
 
Reading up on steam stream, it is going on about how any old laptop will do. Assassins creed on an 8 year old mac etc, lol.

So.

Forget the GPU and run on the the Intel Pentium K G3258 IGPU.

Spend the change on moar storage space. 500g M100x for £150 and two 3GB Mechanical drives.
 
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