FX VS A-Series. First build

[Manar]

Hello everyone,

 

I'm building my first pc on a 600$ budget. I want to have the most Performance for my money . I hope to keep this pc for 5 years.

 

I'm hesting between two type of CPU The FX serie or the A-Serie From AMD. From the FX Serie, I have in head the FX6300 ,the FX8320 or the FX6350 for the FX series. For the A series, I have the A10 5800k , A10 6800k and the A10 7800K . I'll be also buying the R7 260x or the GTX 750 . What do you think of it? And to finish wich Motherboard should I get? 

 

Thank you all

 

[GloriousPain]

Hello everyone,

 

I'm building my first pc on a 600$ budget. I want to have the most Performance for my money . I hope to keep this pc for 5 years.

 

I'm hesting between two type of CPU The FX serie or the A-Serie From AMD. From the FX Serie, I have in head the FX6300 ,the FX8320 or the FX6350 for the FX series. For the A series, I have the A10 5800k , A10 6800k and the A10 7800K . I'll be also buying the R7 260x or the GTX 750 . What do you think of it? And to finish wich Motherboard should I get? 

 

Thank you all

get the 8320 the Aseries is slightly weaker CPU wise and the iGPU is worthless if using a dedicated graphics card...

[ForsakenLive]

Hi

 

Look at this partlist, there is a lot of room on $600 for a decent gaming PC!

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/YrHjRB

Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/YrHjRB/by_merchant/

 

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 760K 3.8GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($89.99 @ Newegg) 

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A78M-HD2 Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard  ($51.00 @ Newegg) 

Memory: PNY XLR8 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($68.97 @ Amazon) 

Storage: Sandisk Ultra Plus 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($57.99 @ Newegg) 

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($52.92 @ Amazon) 

Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 270X 2GB Dual-X Video Card  ($187.97 @ OutletPC) 

Case: Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mid Tower Case  ($49.99 @ Newegg) 

Power Supply: Fractal Design Integra R2 650W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($44.99 @ NCIX US) 

Case Fan: Arctic Cooling Arctic F12 74.0 CFM 120mm  Fan  ($3.56 @ NCIX US) 

Total: $594.38

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-08-21 18:23 EDT-0400

 

If you decide to go the FM2+ Route, you could wait until next month and get the Athlon X4 860k which should perform noticeable faster than the 760K, and be at the same price (that's what AMD said), after all it's going to be a A10 7800k without the graphics (Kaveri architecture).

 

You can do a lot of changes, like getting the SSD later down the road and invest more on the CPU (you can get quite powerful i3s from Intel and put them on a cheap H81 or B85 motherboard). Or even going ATX with a 970 chipset AM3+ motherboard and a FX 8320, there are big rumours on a price slash on the FX series coming up next month!, so again, that's another reason to wait for September.

You can even make a few changes and fit a R9 280 there. Don't worry that much about the CPU, the GPU is where you want to spend your money when you build a gaming rig.

[Manar]

 

Hi

 

Look at this partlist, there is a lot of room on $600 for a decent gaming PC!

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/YrHjRB

Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/YrHjRB/by_merchant/

 

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 760K 3.8GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($89.99 @ Newegg) 

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A78M-HD2 Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard  ($51.00 @ Newegg) 

Memory: PNY XLR8 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($68.97 @ Amazon) 

Storage: Sandisk Ultra Plus 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($57.99 @ Newegg) 

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($52.92 @ Amazon) 

Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 270X 2GB Dual-X Video Card  ($187.97 @ OutletPC) 

Case: Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mid Tower Case  ($49.99 @ Newegg) 

Power Supply: Fractal Design Integra R2 650W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($44.99 @ NCIX US) 

Case Fan: Arctic Cooling Arctic F12 74.0 CFM 120mm  Fan  ($3.56 @ NCIX US) 

Total: $594.38

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-08-21 18:23 EDT-0400

 

If you decide to go the FM2+ Route, you could wait until next month and get the Athlon X4 860k which should perform noticeable faster than the 760K, and be at the same price (that's what AMD said), after all it's going to be a A10 7800k without the graphics (Kaveri architecture).

 

You can do a lot of changes, like getting the SSD later down the road and invest more on the CPU (you can get quite powerful i3s from Intel and put them on a cheap H81 or B85 motherboard). Or even going ATX with a 970 chipset AM3+ motherboard and a FX 8320, there are big rumours on a price slash on the FX series coming up next month!, so again, that's another reason to wait for September.

You can even make a few changes and fit a R9 280 there. Don't worry that much about the CPU, the GPU is where you want to spend your money when you build a gaming rig.

 

Thanks ALOT MAN . I'll wait till september for sure. Its a school project so I'll be building my computer in february so I have alot of time for sales and rebats! Thanks alot again.