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Would you use a bulldozer chip?

darket said:
At the price they are now its really hard to get better for your money , especially new, however it needs pairing with a good motherboard with good vrms, the 8 core bulldozers throttle badly on cheap boards.
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One good thing is that places are selling off decent 990X chipset boards cheap. You can get a Gigabyte GA-990X-Gaming SLI for under £80 brand new, which has a 12-phase VRM, M.2 slot and USB 3.1. Would still make a solid budget rig paired with one of the octa cores.
 
Hiya, you can get an entry level AM4 Tower for £539+ delivery (+ cost of getting Win 10 if you haven't already got it.)

That's the Ryzen 5 1400 4 Core w/8 threads, 8GB Ram, 1 TB Seagate HDD, XT Series 500W PSU & a GTX 1050, case etc etc.

Does he already have a Blue-ray player ?
Have you already gotten a copy of Windows 7 or 10?
Do you need a Monitor & Keyboard/Mouse/Headset as well?
 
Little*Freak said:
Hiya, you can get an entry level AM4 Tower for £539+ delivery (+ cost of getting Win 10 if you haven't already got it.)

That's the Ryzen 5 1400 4 Core w/8 threads, 8GB Ram, 1 TB Seagate HDD, XT Series 500W PSU & a GTX 1050, case etc etc.

Does he already have a Blue-ray player ?
Have you already gotten a copy of Windows 7 or 10?
Do you need a Monitor & Keyboard/Mouse/Headset as well?
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Got a link?
 
Problem with the FX 8300 is that you are stuck if you want to upgrade. New board, new ram and maybe new OS. You would also need a beefy cooler to overclock.

I'd be looking at sandy, ivy or haswell as people are flogging them for ryzen upgrades. Or hold off for the funds to buy ryzen/lower end ryzen chips to be launched.
 
All brand new stuff @ Overclockers :)

CPU+Wraith Spire Cooler https://www.overclockers.co.uk/amd-...hz-socket-am4-processor-retail-cp-3a1-am.html £165
Asus Prime B350M-A Micro atx https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus...am4-ddr4-micro-atx-motherboard-mb-69l-as.html £80
Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 https://www.overclockers.co.uk/cors...annel-kit-red-cmk8gx4m2a2666c1-my-453-cs.html £69
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1050 Mini 2048MB GDDR5 https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...ddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-18r-gi.html £116
Seagate BarraCuda 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD https://www.overclockers.co.uk/seag...64mb-cache-hdd-oem-st1000dm010-hd-376-se.html £47
XFX XT Series 500W 80 Plus Bronze https://www.overclockers.co.uk/xfx-xt-series-500w-80-plus-bronze-power-supply-ca-022-xf.html £38
Aerocool V3X Devil Red Edition Midi-Tower https://www.overclockers.co.uk/aerocool-v3x-devil-red-edition-midi-tower-black-red-ca-126-ae.html £23

Comes to £538 + Delivery, (not sure where i lost a quid :)) As you said light gaming you could save a bit more by going for the RX 460, which might be a good idea as Nvidia cards seem to have a problem with
Ryzen CPU's. Also i went for the 500W PSU in case of Future upgrades, you could save a little there by getting the 400W instead.
 
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