PC for friend

[Daeice]

My friend wants to get a new pc for gaming and slight editing.

His budget is $1500 AUS. And the parts need to be from an AUS site.

Thanks,

[Cacao]

What sort of editing does he do? Does he need lots of CPU threads? Lots of CUDA cores? OpenCL?

[Daeice]

Forgot to quote

[Daeice]

What sort of editing does he do? Does he need lots of CPU threads? Lots of CUDA cores? OpenCL?

He uses Photoshop, uses a little bit of After effects every now and then and a bit of Cinema 4dHe uses Photoshop, uses a little bit of After effects every now and then and a bit of Cinema 4d

[Cacao]

He uses Photoshop, uses a little bit of After effects every now and then and a bit of Cinema 4dHe uses Photoshop, uses a little bit of After effects every now and then and a bit of Cinema 4d

Here you go, what do you think?

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core Processor  ($235.00 @ Mwave Australia) 

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  ($39.00 @ Mwave Australia) 

Motherboard: ASRock 990FX Extreme3 ATX AM3+/AM3 Motherboard  ($128.14 @ Mwave Australia) 

Memory: Kingston Fury Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($95.00 @ CPL Online) 

Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($159.00 @ PLE Computers) 

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($67.00 @ CPL Online) 

Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 290X 4GB Double Dissipation Video Card  ($549.00 @ PCCaseGear) 

Case: Corsair 300R ATX Mid Tower Case  ($99.00 @ CPL Online) 

Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($105.00 @ Mwave Australia) 

Total: $1476.14

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

[jaffacakes]

 

Here you go, what do you think?

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core Processor  ($235.00 @ Mwave Australia) 

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  ($39.00 @ Mwave Australia) 

Motherboard: ASRock 990FX Extreme3 ATX AM3+/AM3 Motherboard  ($128.14 @ Mwave Australia) 

Memory: Kingston Fury Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($95.00 @ CPL Online) 

Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($159.00 @ PLE Computers) 

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($67.00 @ CPL Online) 

Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 290X 4GB Double Dissipation Video Card  ($549.00 @ PCCaseGear) 

Case: Corsair 300R ATX Mid Tower Case  ($99.00 @ CPL Online) 

Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($105.00 @ Mwave Australia) 

Total: $1476.14

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

 

Well he mainly games, so you can olso use an i5-4690k or an i7-4790k downgrading the GPU to a r9 290 if he uses a 1080p display.