$800 pc part picker fight

[foxhound590]

2 people on teamspeak where having a pc part picker fight which one won the fight? 

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/BzrJBm

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/BbY623

requirements 

1080p display

OS (via PCPP)

Keyboard

Mouse 

Sound device

optical drive 

$800 Shipped (shipping to same address for comprisons sake)

 

[AlwaysFSX]

Neither, they're both terrible..

[Lord Pantaloons]

Neither, they're both terrible..

I disagree, one is a well balanced build the other is awful.

[That Norwegian Guy]

Neither. The first has a shit case and an SSD in the "may as well not even bother" category, the second chooses an awful-value storage sacrifice to fit in a GTX 970 which will be bottlenecked anyway, and a single 4GB DIMM omgwtfbbq are you on drugs?

[AMDftw99]

I'm no computer part genius, but won't the pentium G3258 bottleneck the GTX 970?

[Manny Calavera]

rekt?

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor  ($139.98 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P ATX AM3+ Motherboard  ($74.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Team Elite Plus 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($64.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($53.98 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 270 2GB TWIN FROZR Video Card  ($139.99 @ Newegg)
Case: BitFenix Merc Alpha (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($19.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($29.99 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NSB0 DVD/CD Writer  ($13.99 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit)  ($89.98 @ OutletPC)
Monitor: Acer H226HQLbid 60Hz 21.5" Monitor  ($119.99 @ Newegg)
Keyboard: Logitech MK120 Wired Slim Keyboard w/Optical Mouse  ($13.98 @ OutletPC)
Headphones: Panasonic RP-HTF600-S Headphones  ($35.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $797.84
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-10-03 05:24 EDT-0400

 

 

 

Both have absolutelly terrible visuals ( TN monitor ) and craptastic audio, both have lack in cpu power.

 

You must build so it is as small replacement / upgrade / simplest upgrade path as possible.
And especially -> balanced.

[GzeroD]

I'm no computer part genius, but won't the pentium G3258 bottleneck the GTX 970?

When overclocked it won't bottleneck my overclocked R9 290 So I would not think so unless the game was well made for multi threading.

[Hazy125]

I disagree, one is a well balanced build the other is awful.

I'm guessing you're one of the people involved in this TS fight then

 

Ew, those motherboards with that CPU

[Lord Pantaloons]

rekt?

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor  ($139.98 @ NCIX US)

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P ATX AM3+ Motherboard  ($74.99 @ Newegg)

Memory: Team Elite Plus 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($64.99 @ Newegg)

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($53.98 @ OutletPC)

Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 270 2GB TWIN FROZR Video Card  ($139.99 @ Newegg)

Case: BitFenix Merc Alpha (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($19.99 @ NCIX US)

Power Supply: Corsair Builder 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($29.99 @ Newegg)

Optical Drive: LG GH24NSB0 DVD/CD Writer  ($13.99 @ Newegg)

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit)  ($89.98 @ OutletPC)

Monitor: Acer H226HQLbid 60Hz 21.5" Monitor  ($119.99 @ Newegg)

Keyboard: Logitech MK120 Wired Slim Keyboard w/Optical Mouse  ($13.98 @ OutletPC)

Headphones: Panasonic RP-HTF600-S Headphones  ($35.99 @ Newegg)

Total: $797.84

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-10-03 05:24 EDT-0400

 

 

 

Both have absolutelly terrible visuals ( TN monitor ) and craptastic audio, both have lack in cpu power.

 

You must build so it is as small replacement / upgrade / simplest upgrade path as possible.

And especially -> balanced.

lol no, those 8 cores mean nothing when they aren't being used and hardly any games make use of 4 cores. The average clock for a 3258 below 1.3v is 4.5Ghz and the 3258 will match DC i5's clock for clock. You don't even need an aftermarket cooler for the thing.

I'm guessing you're one of the people involved in this TS fight then

 

Ew, those motherboards with that CPU

Both of those motherboards have bio's that allow overclocking, the sensible build has a motherboard that supports unlocked multiplier and the other only offers baseclock overclocking.

[Manny Calavera]

lol no, those 8 cores mean nothing when they aren't being used and hardly any games make use of 4 cores. The average clock for a 3258 below 1.3v is 4.5Ghz and the 3258 will match DC i5's clock for clock. You don't even need an aftermarket cooler for the thing.

Both of those motherboards have bio's that allow overclocking, the sensible build has a motherboard that supports unlocked multiplier and the other only offers baseclock overclocking.

i realize in games that use 2 cores heavily, or only 2 cores that will be the case, but games use 4 cores now and in future when directx12 comes, it will load evenly across all 8 cores. windows 10 will ship with dx12.

and if you know benchmarks, 8320 at stock is about equal to i5 haswell. i5 for the price of i3

idk why would you be buying processor just for 1 year lol

[-iSynthesis]

lol no, those 8 cores mean nothing when they aren't being used and hardly any games make use of 4 cores. The average clock for a 3258 below 1.3v is 4.5Ghz and the 3258 will match DC i5's clock for clock. You don't even need an aftermarket cooler for the thing.

Both of those motherboards have bio's that allow overclocking, the sensible build has a motherboard that supports unlocked multiplier and the other only offers baseclock overclocking.

There arent many games that do not support 4 cores yet; a pentium is ok but stands no chance in anything but mmos against a 8320

[Lord Pantaloons]

There arent many games that do not support 4 cores yet; a pentium is ok but stands no chance in anything but mmos against a 8320

That's where you are wrong

[-iSynthesis]

That's where you are wrong

Take a pentium and put it on a 64 player server, please. Take a pentium and put it on a 64 man arma 3 server, please. Many games use more threads. Singleplayer most of the time isnt the problem since the cpu isnt doing a lot.