CPU Intel Pentium G850
MoBo Gigabyte B75M-B3H
Ram Corsair 4Gb DDR3 1600 Black Vengeance Low Profile
GPU EVGA 650 2GB SuperClocked
PSU Corsair CX430 V2
HDD WD Blue 500Gb
Total: 530$-ish
Can anyone tell me whether the CPU gonna bottle neck the GPU or not?
Feel free to tell me what is your opinion about this build.
Thanks in advance
you will be fine looks really balanced for a gaming pc.
the EVGA 650 2GB SuperClocked is almost $150 witch is a really bad price to performance i would only buy it if you can get it for under $125 or under $100 for the 1GB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500241
your better off with a old but good 6870 or 560ti for the $150 to $180 range
looks good to me, but i would try to get a better cpu i think that one will bottleneck the gpu most likely
Here are two builds I recommend, both concentrate on high quality components ($400 budget):
Both of these systems have their advantages. The Trinity based system has a much more powerful CPU for most applications, though games are one of the few exceptions where the Pentium can take hold, though the difference between the two CPUs will not be perceivable in games due to the fact the game will always be bottlednecked by the GPU and not the CPU in this price bracket. Benchmarks can be seen here, take note that a good number of those benchmarks state "lower is better" thus it would appear that the Pentium has the upper hand in a number of them which they actually do not. An interesting thing to note is that the A10 chip competes fairly closesly (though loses out slightly overall) against the i3-3220 which costs the same and lacks the excellent IGP the A10 chip has.
The Pentium system does not have a after market cooler because the Pentium chip will be not able to OC much at all. On the other hand, reports show you should be able to OC the A10 chip (both CPU and IGP) and gain ~20-30% performance increase in games, thus the build comes with an excellent budget cooler to allow for a rock solid OC.
The primary trade off here is that the HD 7770 will out perform the A10's IGP by a decent margin. You should be able to run most games on High @1080p on the A10 and get at least 30FPS. I'm drawing the following number from memory, so they may not be fully accurate, but I think in BF3 on high @ 1080p you average 28 FPS on the A10 and 48FPS average on an HD 7770, BF3 being one of the most GPU heavy games I can think of. You can check out this thread to see how the previous generation APUs perform in games.
One last advantage of the Trinity build is that when you want to upgrade the system down the line, you can simply throw a new graphics card into it, revert the OC on the IGP of Trinity chip and use the extra overhead for a greater CPU OC, which would allow you to push the chip far beyond the bounds of an i3 chip (though you would want to get the 550W psu from the other build for this as the graphics card wouldn't likely run on just 300W of power).
Of course, this is built on a $400 budget. You never stated your budget so I aprox'd from the components you listed.
EDIT: Can't do a strikethrough or underline so bold and italic means I revoke my statement. Not sure how I missed the $ amount you listed, though I don't know why the build you listed above would be so expensive, do you live outside of NA?
in order to make it cheaper you can get the CPU by itselft, but its a $20 heat sink you get for less than $7 that performs just under the 212, might as well for 7 bucks
you never said anything about a larger HDD or ram so I just went by the amounts you listed which you should be fine, most games can't and won't use more that 2GB, I have 4GB of 1600 ram, and the only time I've got a message that I'm low on ram is when I LITTERALLY have over 250+ tabs open on firefox, and one of my processes has a memroy leak that likes to use 2.5GB of ram randomly
Giga I think you PSU/RAM link is broken. Keeps sending straight to the motherboard link. Might wanna check it out :)
Indeed, link is incorrect, but I can assure you, he had a Rosewill power supply listed...
sorry, fixed, and I swear I'm not paid off by rosewell, asus, and intel, I wouldn't be a bum if I was lol
Woah, thanks for the feed back guys, will need time to read all of this.
Thanks for your feedback, and yes, I live in Europe (Czech Republic to be exact). Computer parts here are really expensive.
Since I have little to no experience in overclocking,I won't be able to do the Trinity system justice. But the IGP in the new A10 seems like a good direction AMD is heading, give them 1 or 2 more generations and I think they will be the future of budget gaming rig.
The Pentium system seems more viable for me. Although I will still be using the g850, as they are on sale here where I live. And I will be going for the 560ti instead of the 7770, but that might be streching my wallet a bit :D Personally though, as I won't be gaming on a tons of monitor, I prefer nVidia more than AMD.
You can check out the prices of the parts here: Alza.cz, you can see how expensive things are here compare to NA, my original build costs me 10150 CZK. If you or anyone (GiGa *wink wink*) can give me a better build and still keep it in that price range, I will happily go with it.
Hmm, the website you listed is in a language I don't speak, they seemed to have put in some kind of redirect blocker so google translate is not working well. I'm not gonna spend the time to ensure the correct price balancing and whatnot (heard in some countries certain brands and sockets are disproportionately more expensive than others), plus I'm working on other things atm so.... I'll leave this to Giga to play around with, I'm sure he's got nothing better to do ;)
Haha, fair enough, but you can change the language to English on the top right corner. But then I can't force you to spend your own time to help me with my build. Thanks for all your help Scorp :D
that is a really good price on the HD 7850