New build advice

[P_ziggles]

Hello looking for advice on whether my build is good or not. I live in the USA and my budget is around $550 I already have the case psu hard drive optical drive and CPU cooler. Just curious about the CPU mobo gpu and ram.

Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor ($95.00) \

CPU Cooler: be quiet! Shadow Rock 2 87.0 CFM Rifle Bearing CPU Cooler (Purchased For $0.00) \

Motherboard: MSI 970 GAMING ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($89.99 @ Newegg) \

Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($74.99 @ Amazon) \

Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 280X 3GB TWIN FROZR Video Card ($279.99 @ Newegg) \

Case: BitFenix Ghost (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (Purchased For $0.00) \

Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (Purchased For $0.00) \

Case Fan: Rosewill RABF-131409 55.4 CFM 140mm Fan (Purchased For $0.00) \

Case Fan: Rosewill RABF-131409 55.4 CFM 140mm Fan (Purchased For $0.00) \

Other: Seagate Barracuda 750gb (Purchased)\

Other: Sony optical drive (Purchased)\

Total: $539.97\

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available\

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-07-30 00:37 EDT-0400}

[TheKDub]

Could you edit that mess out with the bbcode? (that way links and such work)

 

(Export/markup --> BBCode)

[P_ziggles]

Sorry on a mobile. I accidently deleted the link.

Not sure how to fix it.

[zsanfusa]

looks good but you may want to eventually add another stick of RAM

[P_ziggles]

looks good but you may want to eventually add another stick of RAM

Yeah. Plan on upgrading to 16gb down the road

[TheKDub]

Yeah. Plan on upgrading to 16gb down the road

 

I suggest getting 2x8GB or 2x4GB now as you will benefit from it, the motherboard has 4 ram slots so you will be able to add 2 more 4GB modules later on to get to 16GB.

 

Also not much reason for you to get 16GB unless you are doing alot of video/photo editing and it is requiring more than 8GB.

[brob]

Hello looking for advice on whether my build is good or not. I live in the USA and my budget is around $550 I already have the case psu hard drive optical drive and CPU cooler. Just curious about the CPU mobo gpu and ram.

Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor ($95.00) \

CPU Cooler: be quiet! Shadow Rock 2 87.0 CFM Rifle Bearing CPU Cooler (Purchased For $0.00) \

Motherboard: MSI 970 GAMING ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($89.99 @ Newegg) \

Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($74.99 @ Amazon) \

Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 280X 3GB TWIN FROZR Video Card ($279.99 @ Newegg) \

Case: BitFenix Ghost (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (Purchased For $0.00) \

Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (Purchased For $0.00) \

Case Fan: Rosewill RABF-131409 55.4 CFM 140mm Fan (Purchased For $0.00) \

Case Fan: Rosewill RABF-131409 55.4 CFM 140mm Fan (Purchased For $0.00) \

Other: Seagate Barracuda 750gb (Purchased)\

Other: Sony optical drive (Purchased)\

Total: $539.97\

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available\

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-07-30 00:37 EDT-0400}

 

Get a 2x4GB DDR3-1600 CAS <= 9 memory kit. This will allow for dual channel memory operation. You can add another 2x4GB or 2x8GB kit if you need to upgrade memory. A-Data XPG V1.0 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory is currently on at a good price.