So my friend wants to play and record PS4 gameplay with a capture card he currently has. These games include: GTA V, DayZ, Overwatch, etc.
The budget is extremely restrictive
I am out of ideas cause he keeps changing his mind.
If that's what you got it's what you got, pretty solid in any case, recording might be iffy with an i3, even with GPU acceleration.
Only other option for multi-threaded performance for recording on the cheap would be an FX 8 core though, which...ya AMD pricing is screwed in AUS so good luck. I think the one time I tried raptr/playTV with an athlon X4 it worked alright
You can stretch the budget by $100 to get an i5 6500.
If stretching is happening it'd be time to go back to the Xeon 1231v3 and an H97 board
With an FX 8350 it goes over by $47
http://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/pcGgbj
The i5 6500 is more worth it though.
1231v3 would totally be the way to go over an i5 if the budget is to get higher , that way you can dump 4 threads to the game in question, and dump 4 threads to recording software, for higher quality footage compared to like the built in recording on stuff, through like OBS
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900 is already over budget
but I just was alerted that he got a PC for $50
So I'll get the specs on that and see how we can upgrade it.
$50 AUD.., it's gotta be something like this
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Core 2 duo apparently, no idea what model or socket. Or what mobo
But I feel like the HDD, might be salvageable. Maybe even the power supply (probably not tho)
Core 2 Duo would mean a LGA775 board.
Depending on the chipset and board layout, it could support anything up to a Core 2 Quad.
Biggest limitation is that a lot of the boards only support 8GB of DDR2 at most.
Yea even the best core 2 duo isn't very good at all.
With an 900$ budget he should have went with a dual 2011 or dual 1366 , most power you can get for the money today.
The good news about the core 2 duo it's only 50 bucks.
One guy here just called M$ and said his MB needed to be replaced, saving the cost of the OS.
Lets hope the previous owner upgraded to win 10.
Saves 60 odd bucks for the cost of the case.
You can target sales. Hey great deal on GPU, jump on that. Later if there is an awesome deal on CPU/MB combo, jump on that.
What ever choices you guys make will seem so much better against the backdrop of the Core 2 duo. For me it just seemed more satisfying when I put new parts in an older PC and when it boots up you get that "WOW this is SOOO much faster!!!"
Buy a used i7 3770 or newer
Here's something I found. i7 4770 $550
http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/castle-hill/desktops/hp-envy-pheonix-800-series-pc-/1122726616
Here's a GTX980 $300
http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/blacktown/other-electronics-computers/evga-gtx-980-super-clocked-acx-2-0/1122887931
$850 and much better than your pc part picker list
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PCpartpicker, for what he's doing, this will do it all well enough for him to be happy. It's a bit over budget, but I assume you can swap some components from the potato he bought.
I was very very budget conscious, but also made sure I wasn't picking garbage that's gonna break or BSOD on the first day
So budget conscious that you didn't include a video card.
umm.. no. It's in there.
LOL!
Post the "Permanent Link"
the link you gave is just to the site, not your parts list.
I was looking at some list that I had created when I clicked your link.
fixed, I tested it and it worked for me so I gave it no thought
Much better!