Hi this is my first journal entry. My name is Devious and I enjoy building computers, so I decided to share computer builds I think of on Tek Syndicate because of the large community. This is going to be a running series that is going to occur on Tuesdays each week. This first build is an AMD build for 854.91 US dollars. (THE PRICE OF WINDOWS IS INCLUDED IN THE BUILD). Before we jump right into this build, I would like to say that there is not an optical drive budgeted in the build. Without further ado, lets begin:
That wraps up the build. Leave what you think in the comments and if you want this series to continue. Also feel free to post challenges and trials for me, there is a 90% chance I will take you up on it. Have a nice week, bye.
He has a XFX R9-270 in there, which is exactly the same to a 270X expect it has a slightly lower core clock, but can be overclocked to reach the same level of the 270X. The 270 is faster than the 660 is most titles, and cheaper usually.
So yea, not sure what you're on about? Maybe I'm confused.
Devious, maybe you should consider a different brand man, most people on Newegg are complaining about quality issues, maybe rather go with an MSI or Asus card? 43% of people gave it 2 eggs, which doesn't bode well.
Thanks for the suggestion FlyingScotsmanZA. I going to look more in depth at reviews because i just looked at the overall amount of eggs, which is three eggs, (which, now that I think about it is just O.K). After I write this comment ill switch it over to the http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125491. Thanks again for the suggestion
I read over at Tom's that the motherboard does not have heatsinks. Perhaps a different board?I think everyone would like a board that can dissipate heat well.
That board isn't too great, because as mentioned above it doesn't have heatsinks. The non-LE version is around $10 more and it does have the heatsinks.
for motherboard get the gigabyte ga-970a-ud3p or asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 or atleast M5A97 R2.0 getting a bad motherboard and 16gigs of ram is insanity - get 8gb... no need for more unless you plan on making a ramdisk or something, i got 4gb for my fx6350 build and it's giving me 0 issues.
also you can't do anything with a 32gig ssd other than use it for hard drive caching... and that looks like a notebook hard drive you got there, get a 7200rpm WD Black series hdd if you can as the main drive or just get minimum 120gig ssd for system (remember it will be actually 10-20% smaller when set-up) and whatever 7200rpm hard drive for storage....
SSD is great and all,but you'll have to micromanage quite a bit. I've got a 120GB SSD and i've already used up half of it on the OS plus programs.Nothing fancy,just the usual culprits like Firefox,Open Office and the such. My games,and Steam, are on a mech drive.
SSD caching is an intel only feuture will not work on AMD based systems yet.
Anyway, the motherboard the Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 is not the best choice, because it has no heatsinks on the power delivery parts, i would recommend to change the board to the Asus M5A97 R2.0 which is a better board overall.
Bump the motherboard up to the standard version, and not the LE. The LE is missing heatsinks on some crucial points of the board.
I usually recommend grabbing a 120GB SSD, at minimum. If you can't afford it, just stick to a 7200 HDD. The SSD can be added later, so there's no point grabbing something that you can only stick an OS on. 32GB isn't really enough for an OS + future updates, if I am honest.
Other people have covered other criticisms with concerns to RAM.
I'd probably allocate less budget to the CPU heatsink.