First build 1200USD

ammarez · September 27, 2014

-I am a 16 years old boy who lives in Jordan-in middle east- with an unimaginable hate for taxes and shipping rates

-I've been thinking about this build for about 2 years ,at that time I started saving money. I thought that I'll be able to get a I5-4690K and a 290 in mini-ITX case with a new monitor but I didn't take the taxes and the shipping into consideration . I live in Jordan so the the parts here are quite expensive and we don't have that variety of parts.

-I had all the money in may but I had to wait until I finished my IGCSE exams after that I waited for haswell refresh then boom taxes, Boom shipping .

-I like these parts they are not that bad , but right now I am saving money for a broadwell system .

-I played many different games on it most of them on ultra +50 fps

-Parts:

CPU :I always liked intel more than amd (still do) but because of my budget I had to get this ,actually it is not that bad its maximum temp was about 45 that is when I ran prime 95 on it overclocked , I originally wanted to get to 4.5 GHZ but there is no need for that.

CPU cooler:I believe that it is one of the best budget air coolers in the market so I bought it with the help of mx4 it cools down the cpu into very low temperatures

Thermal Compound: It was the only one that I was able to find it is good but I think that there are other brands that are better

Motherboard : first of all it is sexy super sexy I love its design and I wanted a 990fx to be able to upgrade into a better CPU and to overclock better

RAM : I wanted a 8 GB ram more than 1333 MHZ and a low cas (=<9) RAM but I wasn't able to find other rams with lower CAS . And my father wanted a kingston ram (he says that they are the best and didn't want me to get anything other not from kingston , but he works in another field ... Servers )

Storage: that was the only 1TB one with a reasonable price and it has a long 3 years warranty

Video card : It is one hell of a beast at 720p it can play anything I throw at it at ultra (even though I only played 3 games ....) I like MSI's afterburn it is a great program

Case: it is a big spacious case with a sexy window panel , it has a big area for cable management I only have 2 complains 1 . no cable management holes under the motherboard and no rubber grommets for the holes(I'll end up making them myself)

PSU: it is a decent PSU the cables are good looking it can handle a crossfire, I heard that it is a reliable one But I hate the fact that it isn't modular

mouse : it is not that bad but I actually want a DPI higher than 3500 it is a bit low even for 720p

Keyboard : I am using an old Alps silicon graphics keyboard until I get a new one

-Building this pc was a piece of cake nothing was hard, it is a huge improvement over my acer veriton (M661) -core 2 duo 8400 , 4 GB ddr2 ,DDR2-667 ,Intel Q35 Express and 320 GB- .

-note :I turned the electrostatic bag thingy (outside-inside) so it would work .

- I bought a new desk

- Still to change anything

- I find the pc a bit loud for my taste

-Date Built July 5, 2014

AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor

CPU Clock Rate 3.7GHz
CPU Temperature While Idle 20.0° C
CPU Temperature Under Load 46.0° C

MSI Radeon R9 280 3GB TWIN FROZR Video Card
GPU Core Clock Rate

1.2GHz

GPU Effective Memory Clock Rate

5.0GHz

GPU Temperature While Idle

36.0° C

GPU Temperature Under Load

56.0° C

Part list :PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor ($210.17)