AMD FX-6300 Budget Gaming ~600$

[Waffel]

Hello i'm Building this AMD budget build. My budget is around 600$. I'm buying in Denmark where the prices is a bit higher and that build would cost around 800$ here and that's my real budget.

I'm going to play Far Cry 3, Cs:GO, Battlefield and tons of other games.

I'm a bit in a trouble becouse i don't know if i should go with the option to run Crossfire later. The Motherboard that can run crossfire has a 16x and a 16x(4 mode) so i'm scared of loosing performance.

I'm also choosing between the Prodigy M by BitFenix and a 200R by Corsair. The Prodigy M is running in M-ATX so i can't run crossfire with my budget ( the dual PCI-e 16x is too damn expensive)

 

The Build is this:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor  ($108.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Motherboard: MSI 970A-G43 ATX AM3+ Motherboard  ($69.98 @ OutletPC) 

Memory: Corsair Vengeance LP 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($86.99 @ Amazon) 

Storage: Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB 3.5" 5900RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($35.00) 

Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 270 2GB TWIN FROZR Video Card  ($159.99 @ Newegg) 

Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case  ($49.99 @ Newegg) 

Power Supply: Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold 800W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($35.00) 

Other: Windows 8.1 ($23.00)

Other: BitFenix Prodigy M 

Other: ASRock 960GM/U3S3 FX 

Total: $568.94

Prices is not from the retailers that will be used

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-07-24 07:27 EDT-0400

 

EDIT:

The Seagate Drive is a St2000DM001 7200RPM drive not a 5900RPM.

[BonBon Scott]

That PSU is largely overkill. A 600w will be enough. Heck, a 500w will do.

[SpyRosL]

Change your memory to 2x4 instead 1x8 to take advantage of dual channel memory.

Definitely get a 7200rpm hard drive.

 

Forget about m-atx motherboard in FX processors. They are not good.

I have no idea how you found that psu with $39.This psu is very expensive.Imo,you should forget about crossfire and get a 500-600watt psu.It's not worth it crossfiring 2 low end graphics cards.

Also,i suggest you get a better motherboard and an aftermarket cooler so you can overclock your cpu for better performance.

[Waffel]

Yea about the HDD and the PSU i'm getting that from a friend for 70$ for both. Would the lost RPM be that bad?

And is fx cpus that bad in matx boards?

 

Change your memory to 2x4 instead 1x8 to take advantage of dual channel memory.

Definitely get a 7200rpm hard drive.

 

Forget about m-atx motherboard in FX processors. They are not good.

I have no idea how you found that psu with $39.This psu is very expensive.Imo,you should forget about crossfire and get a 500-600watt psu.It's not worth it crossfiring 2 low end graphics cards.

Also,i suggest you get a better motherboard and an aftermarket cooler so you can overclock your cpu for better performance.

 

 

That PSU is largely overkill. A 600w will be enough. Heck, a 500w will do.

[SpyRosL]

Yea about the HDD and the PSU i'm getting that from a friend for 70$ for both. Would the lost RPM be that bad?

And is fx cpus that bad in matx boards?

Well, you can't not get them for $70 lol..the psu costs over $150 and a 2tb HDD.That's a steal. Get them and add an SSD in the future.

If you wanna go m-atx get an i3 and a h97 motherboard. I'd personally pick the i3 over the 6300 but that's just me.

[Waffel]

Well, you can't not get them for $70 lol..the psu costs over $150 and a 2tb HDD.That's a steal. Get them and add an SSD in the future.

If you wanna go m-atx get an i3 and a h97 motherboard. I'd personally pick the i3 over the 6300 but that's just me.

Well yea i was planning maybe to get a ssd for the os later but i wont go with Intel too expensive and minimal performance difference if any in gaming.

But why is it you don't like matx with the fx cpu? Is it plain out bad/slower or anything?

[SpyRosL]

Well yea i was planning maybe to get a ssd for the os later but i wont go with Intel too expensive and minimal performance difference if any in gaming.

But why is it you don't like matx with the fx cpu? Is it plain out bad/slower or anything?

Why would you buy intel? Too expensive.

You won't see any performance difference in any game with SSD but the loading times is another thing. I am waiting for players to spawn in bf4 for at least 20 secs.Definitely worth it especially if you are playing domination.

 

I have no experience with amd cpus but it's a fact that AM3+ m-atx motherboards plain suck.Mostly VRM overheating issues.

[Waffel]

Why would you buy intel? Too expensive.

You won't see any performance difference in any game with SSD but the loading times is another thing. I am waiting for players to spawn in bf4 for at least 20 secs.Definitely worth it especially if you are playing domination.

 

I have no experience with amd cpus but it's a fact that AM3+ m-atx motherboards plain suck.Mostly VRM overheating issues.

I won't buy intel that's what i wrote 

.And iwill check into that am3+ on matx boards.

I know that ssd won't help performance i will not use it for a game storage drive only for windows and software. But you think the loading times will be terrible if i stick to the 5900rpm hdd?

[SpyRosL]

I won't buy intel that's what i wrote 

.And iwill check into that am3+ on matx boards.

I know that ssd won't help performance i will not use it for a game storage drive only for windows and software. But you think the loading times will be terrible if i stick to the 5900rpm hdd?

You can post it on cpu,motherboard and ram subforum here and see what other users have to say.

 

Yes. Loading time will be absolutely horrible.You should get at least 128gb SSD and add your favorite games there as well. 256gb would be awesome if you can afford it. Prices went really down in SSDs.

[Waffel]

@SpyRosL You know what. I just found out that it is a 7200 RPM HDD. I don't know why i thought it was a 5900.