Help new PC for my dad for around £400

  • Budget. How much are you willing to spend?£400
  • Where do you live (what country),  and what currency do you use?England pound sterling
  •   -Is there a retailer you prefer?
  • Do you need or already have peripherals? (this can add to costs)yes.
  • What will you be using your future computer for? Gaming? Rendering? Mix of both? Or is this a home media PC?Dx11 and Rendering
  • Do you overclock or want to get into overclocking?No.
  • Do you plan on going for custom watercooling now, or in the future?No.
  • OS. Do you need a new one?Have windows 7
  • Do you plan on Mining BTC either for yourself or Tek Syndicate?No.

If you Render or Edit things-

  • What application do you use to render? (very important) dx11 dont really know
  • Do you render movies or photshop pictures No

 So far i came up with this http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/1qnuN

also my dad is a programmer so that might help you understand what he wants to do.He's made motorstorm and wrc series on playstation also if that helps with the build aswell.

I don't exactly know which would perform better but I'd imagine the phenom one would do better.

APU system:

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/1qA9i

Phenom:

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/1qAgH

Please don't go with anything smaller than a 1tb hard drive.. they're so cheap these days

IwinFTW a AMD A10-5700 IS A AMD Athlon II X4 750K (with disabled intergrated video core makeing it cheaper)  you made a worse computer same chip useing a hd 7770 is more powerfull.

lukefrewin Do you need 16gbs of ram?

 

Diffence between cpu's (965 and 750k) 

http://www.cpu-world.com/Compare/554/AMD_Athlon_X4_750K_vs_AMD_Phenom_II_X4_965_(125W__BE).html

965 pros its a true quad core 

cons 1333mhz memory controller 125w's old cpu instruction sets

Athlon II X4 750K pros 1866mhz memory controller 100w has a 4ghz turbo speed overclocks like a boss (near 5ghz reported on air cooling) new cpu instruction sets amd piledriver architecture its dam cheap 

cons its not realy a true quad core (bulldozer modules)

What can I say, I'm not much of an AMD guy. If my APU option is worse then definetly go for an Athlon II X4 750K. Ignore my post, then.

Was I wrong with the FX-6300 as well or was that actually fine? I don't really know much about AMD, so you guys' experience would be great here when I help my friends etc.

That APU is the same chip amd disables the apu's video and sells them as cpu's under the name of Athlon 2's

the  Athlon II X4 760K is comeing to shops soon ( A A10 6800K )

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/1qAV6

6670 is for dual graphics.

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/Killerfrenzy96/saved/29dn

Over budget but will be more upgradable.

7850 Seems to much for what he wants to do.He said he would be happy with a APU system and seemed quite set on it ,i will see which of the builds he prefers.

If i went with the athlon which GPU should i get?

Ok im going for this http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/1qAgH

More build options i came up with (And Berserker)

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/LukeFrewin/saved/29uX

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/LukeFrewin/saved/29v0

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/LukeFrewin/saved/29v9

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/LukeFrewin/saved/29GL

Skip the i3 as its render performance will be...bad. The APU as well. The original build you said you were going for was good.