Here are the builds, if there are any ways to make these cheaper let me know
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/kYRk
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/iYNI
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/lxv2
Pick one and post your favorite below!
i don't know, what about this http://pcpartpicker.com/p/lABO
it has an amd a10-5800k apu, and a cm212 evo cooler (you can probely get 4ghz out of the 4 cores, the i3 and pentiums you had are dual-cores)
and the apu has a HD 7660D, ad the HD 6670 in a hyberid corsfireX
According to PCWorld, a 7660D+6670 wil preform like a 7850
as for the HHD my list has an wd 500gb blue, but you can replace that whit an ssd
Not particularily blown away by any of these builds, but definately not the Pentium build, seriously locking yourself down with that. If I were to pick one it would be the first one, but I'd skip the Basiq PSU and go for something else in the same price range (think XFX has a 550W in that range thats 80+ bronze) and I'd probably swap the case for the Antec One or the CM Elite 431+ for the FP USB3.0 (and both are solidly built cases), though cases are somewhat subjective. Some of the features of that board won't really be utilized since you're probably not gonna want to try to squeaze out an OC on that i3 chip, but not really much can be done about that.
The only thing that concerns me about this build is its upgradability, any upgrade on it is going to be costly. The i3 will do fine for gaming so you don't really need to concern yourself with upgrading that anytime soon, but your sinking a good portion of you budget into a low-mid end graphics card which will most likely be the first thing you're going to want to replace in a few months. When that time does come around, you're gonna be stuck with a $100+ paperweight. If you get lucky you might be able to sell it for something recoupe $70 or so, which wouldn't be too bad, otherwise you'll probably end up giving it away. On the other hand, if this is the only money you have and the only money you're going to be able to sink into this system for years to come, then maxing out what you can get on the GPU side will likely giving the best longevity. But if in 5-8 months you'll have an extra $80-100 you could put towards a system upgrade, then perhaps being more conservative on the GPU (or IGP if you will) will allow you to take the bulk (~$100) of the money you'd be dropping on a GPU now and hold on to it for a little later down the road when you'd be able to upgrade to a much more capable (~$180) GPU that will perform much better and provide much greater longevity for your system.
Do you guys have any recommendations for video cards then, if i save my 150+100 from christmas? I was thinking about going with intel 4000 on a 3570k and spend 150 on a video card when christmas comes around what do you guys think?
That sounds like a really good plan as long as you can wait that long, You'd get a pretty formiddable CPU that way, and you should be able to get a decent graphics card. Although, I would really suggest you spend at least $200 on a graphics card and get a Radeon HD 7850.
Also, I really don't like any of these SSDs that you've chosen to put into your build. That Vertex Plus in the first build is a first generation SSD, which means it's going to be slow and buggy. I've never heard of Corsair's Accelerator Series either. The OCZ Agility 4 would be your best bet, but the Agility series is kind of a watered down version of their higher end SSDs.
I would suggest getting either a Crucial M4 or Samsung 830. I've also heard that the new Corsair Neutron SSDs are supposed to be really nice.
alright alright thanks for the feedback, any other opinions on this idea? I will look into those ssd's.
Will the intel 4000 graphics be able to run battlefield bad company 2 or some gay cod game? On youtube ive seen it run bfbc2 but mostly at 720p. I have a 1080p screen so would it look bad if i played bfbc2 at 720p?
Well, if you're going to be running 720p on a monitor that has a native resolution of 1080p, then it's probably going to look a little off just because the native resolution is the resolution that your monitor was designed to display.
This should give you an idea of how Intel HD 4000 will perform. Scroll down to see game benchmarks:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-HD-Graphics-4000-Benchmarked.73567.0.html
thanks for the quick reply! I just have one question, what would you mean by 'off'
To save up the money you could go two ways with this, you could drop an extra $110 and grab an i5-3570k and run off HD 4000, which will run some older games decently, like portal 1 and Left 4 Dead (I actually have some HD 4000 benchmarks I'll be putting up sunday), or you could drop the same amount you'd drop on the i3 on an A10-5800k and get a much more powerful IGP that can play BFB2 on high at 1080p at ~30FPS.
The trade off between the two being: buying the i5 will cost you an extra $110 and give you a sort of gimped IGP for a few months but you come out in the end with a better CPU, or going with the A10 which will cost nothing more than the i3 would have, give you a much more capable IGP and about the same performance as the i3 (a bit slower at stock and a bit faster with a reasonable OC), but you're locked at that CPU level for some time.
If you're an FPS gamer, you'll never notice the difference between an i5 and an i3 and an A10, FPS are not very CPU intensive at all. Some games that are more CPU intensive are games like SC2, which you can actually see an FPS difference between those processor, thought you're still more likely to be bottlenecked by your GPU. Just something to consider.
The picture will just look more grainy, zoomed in, and not as sharp. Sometimes things will look a little more stretched out than they should be too. Certain resolutions will look worse than others, but your native resolution will always look the best on your screen.
The a10 does looik promising
Wow, I was browsing the interwebs and saw that dishonored runs like a charm on the intel 4000 graphics, so I think I will get intel after all. I have problem now though, If I want a very quiet machine should I upgrade my case or heatsink?
Getting a quiet system has a lot to do with buying the right fans, a fan controller doesn't hurt either.
Also, what resolution is your monitor? If its a low resolution like 1366 x 768 then the HD 4000 should do fine, should get about 29 FPS in dishonoured, but if you have a high res monitor, like a 1920x1080 monitor, the HD 4000 is gonna crawl, scratching around 16 FPS, turn everything to low might get you into the low 20s, which might be playable.