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BUDGET IS $450 to $500!

 

This is my first gaming rig. I have chosen parts and have taken a few ideas from Duncan33303's gaming rig videos. These are the parts:

Graphics Card - Diamond AMD Radeon HD 6670 2048MB GDDR3 

Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-78LMT-S2P Socket AM3+

Processor - FX 6100 Black Edition

Memory - Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB DDR3-1600 PC3-12800

Case - Diablotek EVO Mid Tower ATX

Power Supply - Cooler Master Elite Power 400W ATX Power Supply

DVD Burner - LG 24x SATA Internal

Hard Drive - Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB 7,200 RPM SATA

 

Is there anything that I should change?  Please post bellow telling me what you think of this setup. I apologize for not providing and links or screen shots.

If you have any other advise, comments, or anything else that could guide me into completing this computer please post them bellow!

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Where do you live and what is your budget? You build is honestly kinda out of whack.

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I agree with CloudScorpion. This is not a build I would want to buy.

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I concur. I'll get working on configuring one for you when you have a set budget

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FX6100 BLACK EDITION?! Save your money. Get a Phenom II X4 965 or Intel G860 or i3-2100. And a better GPU.

 

... and a prettier case.

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I want to have a finishing total to around 450 or 500 dollars. Not including Windows 7/8

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I'm going to change it to an i5 processor and get a new motherboard but I'm sticking with the case because I can work on it and make it pretty custom looking.

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I live in Missouri but my budget is around 450 and 500 dollars. No higher. But my question is what is wrong with the build itself because I thought that it was pretty good.

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Could go for this build:

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/lMiT

Will be about $490 after taxes and about $450 after rebate. Advantages of this build (over your original one) are:

  • The case looks similar to your original one, but is better built, better supported, and has USB 3.0 FP support
  • The PSU gives you room for a GPU upgrade in the future and is 80+ bronze, is also better built and supported
  • Memory is faster, which will give a boost to the APU's IGP and daily tasks
  • The motherboard is significantly better than the one you listed, has heatsinked mosfets for OCing, USB 3.0 support (BP and FP), better sound outputs etc
  • Build has a decent cooler which will assist in getting a great OC on the APU's CPU and IGP
  • The APU's CPU is similar to an FX4300 which is a FX6300 with 2 less cores, since you will be using this for gaming, those two fewer cores will not make much difference especially when the GPUs are so entry level. The CPU should be able to be overclocked into the 4.3GHz range fairly easily.
  • The APU's IGP will perform well by itself, at about 70% of the HD6670 discrete card at stock, but the A10's IGP is very OC capable, you should be able to overclock the IGP's core clock to about 1000MHz (25% improvement) and have it competing fairly close to the HD6670. Now, with the system running on the IGP, months or years down the line, you can drop in a new $200 graphics card, turn off the A10's IGP and give the CPU OC a bit more power, giving you a much more powerful system without having to deal with trying to pawn off a low end graphics card.

 

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This looks pretty awesome! But I have two questions, I have overclocked my older computer but the computer overheated and shut down (never to come on again). I was wondering if the Cooler Master CPU cooler would be enough to overclock without severally overheating it?

Second is, since this will be for playing modern games, recording minecraft, and MINOR editing, is this enough to do this?