Hey Guys,
After selling my PS4 to a buddy for more than what I paid for it (they are now $450 in Canada), I have built what I think is a fairly decent PC. I was on a limited budget and scrapped parts together. I'm wondering what you guys think.
Specs:
BitFenix Prodigy: Bought it for $50 new off some guy
Thermaltake TR2 500w: $20 on boxing day, a little worried about its quality
2.5 inch Samsung 840 256 gb: Harvested from old laptop
Windows 8: Already on HDD/already had
GTX 670 FTW 2gb: Bought it for $200
Athlon x4 740: Won a $100 Gift Card on Deal Extreme. It was the only reasonably priced chip on the site. Would have cost $75 otherwise
Motherboard: Because I got a prodigy and an FM2 CPU my options were limited. I decided on the AsRock FM2A88X-ITX+ FM2+. It cost me about $85, which is ridiculous but whatever
Ram: 8gb of Gskill Ripjaws 2400mhz. It was the same price as slower ram, since the mobo supports it, even though Im not using an APU, I figured what the hell! Cost me $80
What do you guys think?
not awful... I mean I'd have hand picked a completely different combination of parts that would be much more balanced... but I've seen worse...
beats the hell out of a PS4 :)
What would you have done? May I remind you it was a limited budget and I'm such a newb. :-D
I'd take the 670 for $200
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3eDMe
for the rest... $20 more... could have done a little better but you live in America's hat :D
Except for the CPU that's a pretty solid build. On CPU heavy games your 670 will probably be underperforming a bit, but otherwise it is still an amazing card! Have you already built the PC/bought the parts?
I ordered everything but the CPU (although its basically free) the mobo and ram
The cpu was basically free to me. But i could still cancel/upgrade it down the road. The motherboard and ram I can cancel. Keep in mind Im in Canada though and my prices are higher
Thanks for all the help guys. I was talking to people on black ops 2 (pc) and they just told me to buy Alienware :'-(. Thats the COD community for you :-D
man you really did a good job on the budget... don't sell yourself short... it's just unbalanced on the CPU/mobo/ram/gpu... not a fan of the PSU... you did about as good as you could though, ended up with really nice RAM and GPU and a mobo that could scale later... CPU's kind of mehh but it was basically free anyways right? :P
I personally would either save up or try to cut some corners to get a 6 core AMD. I don't know about your budget or what the parts cost in canada, but a 4 core athlon may bottleneck your system a bit. See if you can squeeze it in there somehow, I think it would make you way happier in the long run. Let us see what changes you would have to make to be able to afford it.
you know what... I take everything back... you should have bought a $2000 Alienware system with a GTX 660 GPU
Thanks man, I'm hoping with DX12/ If Nvidia decides to pick up Mantle the CPU wont matter as much. Otherwise hopefully AMD will hold on to the FM2+ socket for a while so I can get a new CPU next year or something. :-D Thanks for the help
I can make it happen. I have $230 for a MOBO (MINI ITX) and CPU. Since the CPU right now X4 750k was basically free, I only had to worry about the motherboard. So if I keep it the way it is I have $100 left for future upgrades etc. Or I can get something like a 6300 and an AM3+ motherboard and have no money left. What would you do in my shoes
So true. What retard builds their own systems!!!!!!
It's a tough call if you get a CPU for free, can't you put that credit towards other purchases? Ultimately I'd go for AM3+ though, since you won't need integrated graphics and your system would be better balanced with a 6 core CPU. You can later upgrade to an 8 core after all.
...only a select few of the dumbest of the retards.... it's really Darwin's theory applied to technology... because you can't build a system that's better than a company that's done nothing but that for 20+ years... and you obviously can't get parts for the discount they can... so after the labor + the overhead that they make money on, that's basically just the price of parts to a general stupid person that puts forks in the wall to see if the power is on after their computer doesn't boot, which it obviously won't, cause computers are REALLY REALLY HARD to put together... just saying.... you should have gone Alienware... it's what all the cool kids have man...
Ya that's why I'm torn. DealExtreme isn't really a PC vendor, and their PC stuff is overpriced. I'm afraid that FM2 has a TERRIBLE upgrade path. But if I get AM3+ I can head towards a 8350. Ughh decisions, decisions. How long do you think AMD will keep using the FM2+ socket
Yup, I have a Lenovo U410 with a Ivy Bridge ULV i7. Essentially weaker than a desktop i3. I was talking to a kid at my school about PC gaming, and that I was building a PC. He said "well your laptop has an I7 I bet you can max it out". Now I understand why gaming consoles exist :-D
if you go ahead and buy what I picked out for a mobo/CPU.... you won't need a upgrade path @ 1080p... refrase... by the time you need an upgrade path, we'll have mobos that support DDR5-5000 ram and you'll need a new system anyways... if you want to go all out get the 8320 with an ASUS 990 EVO