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AmericanBob
By AmericanBob
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Hi everyone,

  So black friday is here, and i figured it's time to finally build my own PC. My budget for the PC is around 500-550£ , would be more but i also need  a monitor desk and mose+keyboard so the rest of my money goes there :/ . The prices i'm writing are without discount.So here goes:

 

 Case: NZXT S340 black -55£ (i really like how it looks and the reviews were quite good )

 Processor: AMD FX 8320BE-110£ (unless i get a good deal on the 8350, then that :P)

 Motherboard: MSI 970 gaming -70£ (or AMD 990FX Extreme3 for 80£)

 RAM: HyperX Fury series DDR3 1866Mhz-Red -30£

 Storage: 1TB WD Caviar Blue -39£

 GPU: Sapphire Radeon R9 380 4GB or the XFX version of the 380 ( although the core clock on the XFX is lower and does not have a backplate)

 PSU: Here is where i would really like some help :P ...i think a 650W PSU would be enough even if a want to upgrade in the future, i just don't know what                 type of power supply should i get...last i checked the corsair CX series was on a good price but i heard the CX series is not the best. So i could really               use some help here.

For the monitor i want to go with a 24" AOC , FullHD LED-99£.

Now if i get a good deal somewhere for a GTX970 or an R9 390 i might try to squeeze those cards in but those are both 260£ at the moment.Also i am not going to do any overclocking-well not for a while anyway- so would the stock cooler that comes with the processor be enough? Also do i need more fans in the case than the 2 it already comes with?

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Hi everyone,

  So black friday is here, and i figured it's time to finally build my own PC. My budget for the PC is around 500-550£ , would be more but i also need  a monitor desk and mose+keyboard so the rest of my money goes there :/ . The prices i'm writing are without discount.So here goes:

 

 Case: NZXT S340 black -55£ (i really like how it looks and the reviews were quite good )

 Processor: AMD FX 8320BE-110£ (unless i get a good deal on the 8350, then that :P)

 Motherboard: MSI 970 gaming -70£ (or AMD 990FX Extreme3 for 80£)

 RAM: HyperX Fury series DDR3 1866Mhz-Red -30£

 Storage: 1TB WD Caviar Blue -39£

 GPU: Sapphire Radeon R9 380 4GB or the XFX version of the 380 ( although the core clock on the XFX is lower and does not have a backplate)

 PSU: Here is where i would really like some help :P ...i think a 650W PSU would be enough even if a want to upgrade in the future, i just don't know what                 type of power supply should i get...last i checked the corsair CX series was on a good price but i heard the CX series is not the best. So i could really               use some help here.

For the monitor i want to go with a 24" AOC , FullHD LED-99£.

Now if i get a good deal somewhere for a GTX970 or an R9 390 i might try to squeeze those cards in but those are both 260£ at the moment.Also i am not going to do any overclocking-well not for a while anyway- so would the stock cooler that comes with the processor be enough? Also do i need more fans in the case than the 2 it already comes with?

 
CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£133.84 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: Asus H81-GAMER ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£66.33 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 380 4GB Video Card  (£176.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£57.19 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £561.77
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-11-25 09:58 GMT+0000
 
EDIT: You can change the motherboard for an ASRock H87 Performance but it's 26 pounds over your budget then.
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this would be a much better build for your budget, even squeezed in an ssd, if you dont want the ssd you can drop it and go with the nzxt case 

 

 
CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£133.84 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: MSI H97 PC MATE ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£61.66 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: OCZ Trion 100 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£35.49 @ Ebuyer) 
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 380 4GB Double Dissipation Video Card  (£159.98 @ Novatech) 
Case: BitFenix Neos Black ATX Mid Tower Case  (£28.31 @ Aria PC) 
Total: £553.45
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-11-25 10:00 GMT+0000

CPU: i5 6600k @ 4.6 ghz  Motherboard: Asus z170-a  Cooling: Corsair h80i GT GPU: EVGA GTX 970  Ram: G.Skill 2x8 gb ddr4 2400  PSU: EVGA G2 Supernova 550w  Case: Corsair 200r Storage: 250GB 850 EVO + 2x wd 1 tb drives

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CPU: Intel Core i3-4170 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor  (£85.99 @ Amazon UK) 

Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£30.99 @ Ebuyer) 

Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£29.55 @ Amazon UK) 


Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 390 8GB Video Card  (£264.97 @ Aria PC) 

Case: NZXT Source 210 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£34.98 @ Amazon UK) 


Total: £544.45

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-11-25 10:01 GMT+0000

CPU:Intel Core i3 3210 Mobo:MSI B75MA-E33  GPU:Intel 2500 HD Graphics  SSD:Adata SP600 128gb  HDD:Seagate 1tb 7200rpm  

PSU:Corsair CX430   Case:Antec ASK4000bU3  Monitor:Dell S2240l 21.5 inch 1080p

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wow, u guys work fast...i like them all really, especially the one RaptorCandy put together...so the 4460 is still better than a 8350? also i might still go with the Sapphire version of the card as it's 160£ on aria.co.uk atm. In case i go with the intel CPU could u guys find a good priced cooler for it as i don't like how intels stock coolers look :/  ...also back to my original question, would the 2 fans in the case be enough or do i need 1 or 2 more? Thanks for all the help guys :D

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A R9 380X will be awesome. So I suggest this:

i5-4460

Gigabyte H97M-D3H

8GB of cheap ram

Seagate Barracuda 1TB

380/380X

Some good quality PSU

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