Hi, looking to build a PC for gaming/streaming. Maybe some light HD video editing. I need advice on some componants I want and if I can get better performance for the same price by swapping a few things.
Componants I have so far:-
Corsair XMS 3 2x 8GB DDR3 Ram (1600 MHz). At cost £64.00 total.
Componants I wish to get :-
AMD FX 8350 Processor £150.94 http://www.amazon.co.uk/AMD-FX8350-Edition-Processor-4-2GHz/dp/B009O7YUF6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1374005167&sr=8-1&keywords=amd+fx+8350
Asus Sabretooth R2 Motherboard £135.96 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sabertooth-990FX-R2-0-Motherboard-Multi-GPU/dp/B008RPYAS8/ref=sr_1_1?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1374005476&sr=1-1&keywords=asus+sabertooth+990fx+r2.0
Asus Nvidea GeForce GTX 670 £306.56 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Asus-Nvidia-GeForce-DirectCU-Graphics/dp/B0082FIW96/ref=sr_1_1?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1374005724&sr=1-1&keywords=Asus+GTX+670+Direct+CU+II+2GB
Other than this, I am not too fussed about case, cooler ect just want good stuff for my money!.. Any chance one of you lovely people can recommend any better build?. Ideally I would like to keep the build under £1200 Inc a decent Monitor (Or Two :P) and windows 7/8 depending on price/performance ratio. Or if you can think of a better build completely for this price I am open to suggestions these are just to give an indication of what I want (Or what I think I want :P). I am a noob to this so I have no idea where to even start with monitors, feel free to shout at me, as I am still learning.
Thank You!
James
Any of those parts will work although I would look at some 1600 MHz RAM with super low timings if you are going to be doing video editing and encoding. 11,11,11,30 is really lose timings for 1600 MHz DDR3. I would recommend G.Skill Trident X 1600 MHz 2x8GB RAM instead as it has 7,8,8,24 timings.
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/1hoJf
This is what I came up with its similar to the one you made but I put in a good cpu cooler a good quite case and a quality psu. I used a fast 1tb drive with a 32gb cache drive that does not rely on intel. Also uped the gpu to a msi 770 and I put in a very good 24 in moniter I have used it and its nice and the matching 19in on becasue when streaming its helpful to have your chat and other things on the second screen.
I am unsure what you mean by timings my friend, I am a total noob what does it mean? :P
That looks like an awesome set up! Right on budget too! Was the motherboard I chose overkill do you think?
long story short "Timings" are the actual Timing on the memory chip themselves. they (think like ping) are the time it takes for different parts of the ram to talk to each other. this is called "CAS latency"
Lower CAS is generally faster for rendering type jobs while CAS matters not as much when gaming. Since you're gaming mostly i'd recommend looking for higher frequencys (Mhz). Best of both world usually suits people the best.
unless you really want to push the cpu overclock the money is better spent else where.
Ah that makes sense, so you think I'd be better of with 1866 MHz over 1600? Will that jujst mean I have to use less Ram to do things because its quicker, if so will that be better if I am streaming too? (looking to stream about 720p quality).
That is fair enough, I don't know whether I'd want to overclock it or not, I don't know how to do it! If I did want to would the cpu cooler you recommended be able to cope? I hear this AMD chip runs pretty hot at stock speed.
Faster ram does not mean that you need less. Ram holds stuff the speed of it is basically how fast is can relay the stuff back and forth between the cpu and the ram. it's still being held because the cpu will use it.
You don't have less tools in your tools chest just because your faster using them do you?
As for streaming with ram- I honestly don't know, maybe inbox worthy.
hyper212 evo does the job pretty well but you can't push it extremely far, maybe 4.5 in an AC'd room.
High end air-cooling go for the xigmatech dark knight night hawk II (yes it's a mouthful of a name)
Ah I see, first post and I am already learning so much! I have been misinformed about it in the past, so thank you for helping me to understand properly. Very good analogies! So price vs performance wise, how much extra do you feel I will get out of the 1866 MHz compared to the 1600?
<5% fps-wise.
Ram is usually not the bottle neck
faster ram will perform much better in synthetic mem test by nature of course though.
Awesome :) thank you very much!