Quick info:
- Budget: 500-600 pounds, I assumed this was clear
- Location: UK
- Preferred Retailer: Not really
- Required Peripherals: Friend is coming from a laptop, so still needs a monitor.
- Purpose: Gaming
- Overclocking: Not yet
- Watercooling: No
- OS: Not required, will be using an old copy of windows 7
Friend's friend is building a mid range gaming pc (500-600 pounds), this is the link he included http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/zk87qs (friend said it was mainly copied off some build guide though)
After I made some adaptions, I came to this http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/jN9sCJ or http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/4wHkP6
Do you think I'm forgetting anything or picking any bad parts?
I kind of want to recommend a 3gb/4gb card, but it's hard to fit a card
that can hit 3gb/4gb with it's processing power in a mid range gaming pc
You should go under the assumption that parts won't be added for a while and he has no desire for overclocking (just yet)
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/TLYVTW
CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor (£71.57 @ Amazon UK)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£24.98 @ Novatech)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£65.30 @ More Computers)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£50.77 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: A-Data Premier Pro SP600 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£46.42 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£42.01 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 285 2GB Video Card (£131.14 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: Cooler Master N300 ATX Mid Tower Case (£34.92 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: Enermax NAXN ADV. 650W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£41.75 @ Amazon UK)
Monitor: LG 22MP55HQ-P 60Hz 22.0" Monitor (£103.13 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £611.99
Could you give some info on your reasoning behind changes?
From what I find R9 285 seems pretty equal in performance to the r9 270x
The FX-6300's main advantage seems to lie in the overclocking capabilities, but as I said, the user isn't interested in that yet. As he's fairly new to anything tech related.
As for the ram, I'm assuming you picked it due to it being more reputable or something?
A r9 285 is around the same performance as a R9 280X a R9 270 is a HD7870 and a R9 280x is a 7970 the r9 285 has DX12 and true audio out the box (and freesync but that dosent matter anless you whant to spend a extra £100 on a monitor with displayport 1.2a)
A i5-4460 cant be overclocked -it has a locked multiplier and there is no reason to buy crappy ram the XMS dims are old very old the standard is 1600mhz these days + this build has a SSD which is a must for makeing a computer more snappy and boot faster and has a little space left to run a favorite game from,and the little extra on the monitor gets you a 5ms IPS monitor and not a 5ms TN monitor.
Also seagate drive's are the most unreliable drives around rigth now.
Aite, I updated the build to http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/rsQFrH
Thanks for the help. I think this should do.