Hi I'm new to the forum but have heard that its informative and friendly here.
Since I'm fairly new to the whole build your on PC game I thought I'd ask for some help. I'm looking to build a editing/gaming rig for about 600 pounds max.
How does this look- http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3HTH4
Do you need an OS as well, because if so, you might get some problems with the budget, windows is afterall (if that's what you're gonna go with) pretty expensive...
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3Jo8L You really cannot get AM3+ in anything but full ATX. You could get a Intel build, and that's do able. But Intel in this price range is not smart compared to the AMD side.
I had considered making room on my desk and going for the fractal design r4 case and using a Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P ATX AM3+ motherboard. Would you suggest that would be a better choice ?
I say stick with what you have, it's very well balanced.
If I were to change anything at all I would lower the ssd to 120gb and then use the extra few quid to get an r9-270x. That would make it pretty much future proof for a couple years at least.
Thats a great set of parts! I have an FX-6300, and I will say the stock cooler is a JOKE. I lived with that for about 3 months and then (to keep myself from having to UNDERclock the CPU) I bit the bullet and got a Corsair H60, which works BEAUTIFULLY. The Hyper 212 EVO should do the trick though. One thing I would consider changing is the GPU, (this is just my personal opinion) NVIDIA is doing a lot of really cool stuff right now, and the 750Ti would be my GPU of choice. It supports NVIDIA gamestream, NVIDIA PhysX, CUDA, and I think there's some other stuff it supports but i forgot. Sadly, as much as I love AMD, they're not doing much with GPUs right now, no fancy new features, just new processors in them. The 750Ti is REALLY low power consumption as well, and if you can spare $50, I would go for it.
That is ridiculous. You can get a quality micro atx am3+ board. The board he chose will be able to suffice for a decent overclock to about 4, maybe 4.2 ghz. Size does not matter at all. What matters is chipset and vrm design.
The chipset of choice, the 760g, while older, does support overclocking on even the 8350, assuming it has the up to date bios, which it should. How do I know this? Because I built a system around a Gigabyte microatx board with the 760g chipset, with an 8320, overclocked stable on a 48-hour burn test to 4.1 ghz.
Now what the board cannot do. It cannot run SLI, only the 990 chipset can. It cannot do extreme overclocking, should not be a concern.
For the moment I'm not interested in crossfire or SLI. I would be looking at pushing the CPU to 4GHz but as far as I've found that is apparently rather stable and aslong as the heat is taken of care there should be no trouble.
@Durasara So you think my original part list would suffice?
@K4KFH hmmm do you personally not like Mantle or not had good performance with it ?
P.S I'm hoping my friend still has windows 7 64bit OS on disc that I can borrow and place on a usb stick , hence why I havent placed an OS in the system.
I really think you will enjoy that rig. Very well balanced for 1080p gaming. If you plan on doing anything higher such as 1440p+ or would like a more future-proof build I would recommend at least the r9-270.
As far as mantle, at this point it is not a game changer, just another api to code for slapped on the laps of game developers. Not only that but mantle is only supported on a certain handful of cards, whereas competing api's are supported by almost all. For that reason, I predict DirectX 12 will be better adopted thanks to a much, much wider platform support. Not only this, but thanks to Valve open-sourcing their dx-opengl layer, the best option for dev's at this time is to just code with directx12 in mind, and bandaid over it with Valve's OpenGL layer if they want *nix support. Why waste time on mantle when only a fraction of the market is capable of using it, no?
Now, all that might change if mantle is open-sourced, because then it can be adopted into just about every card on the market today, including cards from the green team. Until then, however, it remains almost obsolete.
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3JumH try this even though i have dropped the ssd i have changed the psu case and motherboard and fit in a gtx770 for your needs hope you like it.