Hey there guys! Til now all of my PCs have been bought pre-built for ease of use, though I'm wanting to jump into building my own rig for gaming purposes. I've not got much bank right as of current as I'd had some savings built up but have had to spend some, and am willing to start the process over again after finally at least building myself a little APU PC.
I've got about £800 to spend here, and I've opted to use eBuyer as my supplier of hardware and Windows software, which is one of the number one retailers for hardware in the UK, I reside in Scotland. I've had a look at the following hardware and I'm just wondering what I could be doing better for my budget perhaps altogether or just with the little things here and there..
Here's the specs: AMD A10-7870K Black Edition 3.9GHz Asus A88XM-PLUS socket FM2+ HyperX 16GB 2133MHz DDR3 XFX R7 250 1GB GDDR5 EVGA Supernova 750W Fully Modular 80+ Gold PSU Adata Premier Pro SP920 (128GB) 2.5 inch SATA 6Gb/s SSD and I'm still undecided on the case.
Firstly, from first glance I'm sure all of these components will work together, at least from what I can gather, can someone tell me if this is true. Another thing also, this comes to £521.22, is there anything better for my money I can get? Also I'm wondering, if on the motherboard spec page it is listed that my motherboard supports DDR3 2133MHz memory but also 2133MHz+ OC does that mean that you have to overclock to get these speeds of memory available or can you use the memory that is specified as being say 2400MHz?
Honestly, Hybrid Crossfire is not such a viable option anymore. Better off getting something like this AMD Build: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/hYKcnQ Its £717.55 but it will preform much, much better.
Uhm, you do not need 16 Gigs of RAM for gaming. 8 is fine. I only broke 8 Gigs used once I ran two heavily modified Minecraft instances (a sever and a client) on the same machine.
I second @Theonewhoisdrunk (drunk people don't lie) on his build. A 970 will run rings around the APU-crossifre combo.
Since I have around 800 bucks would there be any CPUs that would be a better combination with a 970 that would bump up the cost to say 8, just over, willing to go to about 9-1k cause I don't mind paying for the components over a period of time then building it once I have it all, willing to wait :)
You can also look around https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ I get my parts there and I am in Ireland. two day delivery as standard and great returns department.
You could always grab an i5-4690K with a decent Z97 board http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/z2w73C nearly identical build except 8GB of RAM and Intel CPU and motherboard.
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I suppose you could put the whole thing together minus the graphics card and attempt to game off the intel integrated graphics and wait to buy the 970 or an MSI R9 390 later on. Perhaps you have an old GPU in your one if your pre-builts if you still have any and use that instead of the integrated graphics.
i5 4460 + R9 Fury card you should be set for a while, I went a dollar over budget though, or is there some currency conversion factor I'm missing here?
If you save up a bit more you could bump the CPU up to a Xeon 1231v3 which will double your thread count.
AMD Dual-Crossfire is an interesting concept, but still a bit flawed in application. It's the only instance where micro-stuttering can still be an issue.
If you drop the A10, and go with an Athlon X4, as well as go down to 8gb of RAM, you can throw all that money saved towards a pretty decent graphics card. An R9 380 would be a decent choice. (You could also probably drop down the PSU to 500-600w.)
It'd be great if you could answer some of the questions here: HYPERLINK as there's things I'd change about this depending upon some of the answers. Particularly:
What resolution you're gaming at
If you're going to be editing/streaming/recording etc.
If you want to be able to overclock
If you need peripherals
If you need an OS
Assuming the answers to those questions, in order are: 1080p/1440p, no, yes, no and yes (or no), I'd do this: