Omnimaga
General Discussion => Technology and Development => Other => Topic started by: TIfanx1999 on September 24, 2013, 08:53:54 am
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So here's the budget gaming PC build I was talking about in IRC the other day:
PCPartPicker part list (http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1H4P7) / Price breakdown by merchant (http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1H4P7/by_merchant/) / Benchmarks (http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1H4P7/benchmarks/)
CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor (http://pcpartpicker.com/part/amd-cpu-fd6300wmhkbox) ($119.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: Biostar TA970 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (http://pcpartpicker.com/part/biostar-motherboard-ta970) ($64.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: XFX Radeon HD 7850 2GB Video Card (http://pcpartpicker.com/part/xfx-video-card-fx785acnl4) ($119.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Apevia 700W ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (http://pcpartpicker.com/part/apevia-power-supply-atxcb700w) ($44.78 @ Newegg)
Other: Apotop Altair Value 16GB (2 X 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($108.99)
Total: $458.74
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-09-24 08:50 EDT-0400)
*Edit* Forgot to mention, I'm Re-using:
Current PC case
500 GB harddrive with Win7
17 in. HD Monitor/ 40 in HD TV as monitor 2
Speakers, Keyboard, Mouse
BLU-Ray/Dvd-R drive.
I'm open to suggestions, but I want to keep the build as low as possible and still have decent gaming preformance. I'd also like to be able to upgrade it in the future if I so choose. I also figure 2gb is the bare minimum for the graphics card. Anyho... what do you guys think?
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IMO the 7850 2GB should be good enough as a GPU (I have 7970 3GB :P).
Though you should totally scrap that AMD CPU. AMDs are much cheaper but are known to be really sh*tty when it comes to performance (especially gaming). An Intel i3 is barely more expensive and will get you better performance on single or dual core processing and very few games use more. But it's up to you.
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*Bump* So, I got tax money back and this build got majorly upgraded. :D
http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Art_of_camelot/saved/4r6r
Only difference is the graphics card. It's listed as 2 GB in the part list, but I actually got the 4 GB version. I should have all parts here by friday hopefully. :D
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What games even use 4GB of gfx ram ._.
That is a sweet rig tho :thumbsup:
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Figured I should be ready for anything new coming out. Don't want to upgrade for a while. This PC I'm on is ~7 years old now, and I'm feeling it. It was decent then, but I never upgraded it. I'm pretty excited now. ;D
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Humm by the way if you reuse your old drive, make a backup and reinstall Windows from scratch. Else you may have issues with hardware specific stuff.
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I'm not planning on using it any longer. Gonna run windows off the Solid state and use the new 3 TB Western Digital for storage.
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Hmm okay I didn't pay attention to the storage in your config. :P I "only" have a 2TB Seagate Barraccuda myself.
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hehe, looking nice :)
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Nice Art. Hopefully you can start playing Starcraft II now :P
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If you're getting a 4gb graphics card, you might as well upgrade to the FX 8000 series. They aren't much more expensive (compared to the cost of your current build) and perform considerably better.
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You mean the 8 core processors? I don't think I'd ever utilize 8 cores, and 6 was better for the price and clock speed 3.5 GHz(it oc's to up to 4.1GHZ). I also did have a budget, which I still managed to creep over slightly.