Building my first PC

[Dagh]

Hello guys! I'm new on this forum.

 

A friend of mine recommended Linus' Youtube channel to me so I can accomplish my project of building my first PC, which escalated directly to this forums.

 

So after that short tangent: I want to build my first PC which will be used for gaming and hopefully streaming online. I've watched Linus' 2014 guide to build a PC on your budget and I'm going with the Game Now! PC, which has the following specs:

 

CPU: AMD FX-6300

Cooling: Cooler Master Hyper 212+ or Evo

SSD: Intel 520 240GB

Hard Drive: WD Green 3TB

Motherboard: ASUS M5A97 R2.0

Case: NZXT Source 210 Elite

Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

RAM: HyperX Fury Black 16GB

Power Supply: Corsair CX430W

 

Do you think this would be enough for me to stream some gameplays like CS:GO, Day Z, BF4, etc?

 

Btw, is there no Search function in this forum?

 

Thanks beforehand for your answers!

[Lotus]

Honestly, Linus's holiday buyers guide was awful.

 

1) the FX-6300 has terrible single-threaded performance. You want an Intel i5 at this price range.

2) you don't need an SSD at this price range. That money is better spent on real performance parts as opposed to luxury items like an SSD. It'll never improve your framerate or anything like that.

 

What's your budget? Do you live in the US? If it's $1k, you can do waaay better. let me know and I'll throw a build together for you.

[Lotus]

Here. I'm assuming your budget is $1k and you live in the US. This will perform better or equal in every respect, especially on the CPU end. Yes, it has less RAM, but for gaming you're not going to need more than 8GB right now unless you have too much stuff going on in the background, and you can always throw in more memory since there are free DIMMs. You could throw in an SSD, but you really don't need to because it won't help with any in-game performance. The CPU assumes you have access to a local microcenter and can pick it up in person, but even without that it still comes in well under $1k.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($179.99 @ Micro Center)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  ($26.99 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: MSI Z97-G55 SLI ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($118.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Team Zeus Blue 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($67.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($87.99 @ NCIX US)
Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 970 4GB Video Card  ($314.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($54.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: Rosewill Hive 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $911.92
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-11-28 15:20 EST-0500

[boboman342]

 

Here. I'm assuming your budget is $1k and you live in the US. This will perform better or equal in every respect, especially on the CPU end. Yes, it has less RAM, but for gaming you're not going to need more than 8GB right now unless you have too much stuff going on in the background, and you can always throw in more memory since there are free DIMMs. You could throw in an SSD, but you really don't need to because it won't help with any in-game performance. The CPU assumes you have access to a local microcenter and can pick it up in person, but even without that it still comes in well under $1k.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($179.99 @ Micro Center)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  ($26.99 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: MSI Z97-G55 SLI ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($118.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Team Zeus Blue 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($67.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($87.99 @ NCIX US)
Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 970 4GB Video Card  ($314.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($54.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: Rosewill Hive 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $911.92
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-11-28 15:20 EST-0500

 

 

OP Mentioned streaming...the fx 8320 is $99 (fx8350 is $140) and beats i5 in gaming WHILE streaming, but has FAR LESS performance when NOT streaming. For $900-$1000, if you don't have an ssd for your boot drive....you are doing something wrong.

[Lotus]

 

 

 

 

OP Mentioned streaming...the fx 8320 is $99 (fx8350 is $140) and beats i5 in gaming WHILE streaming, but has FAR LESS performance when NOT streaming. For $900-$1000, if you don't have an ssd for your boot drive....you are doing something wrong.

 

The GTX 970 supports GPU capture, putting no strain on the CPU to do streaming.

 

As far as the SSD, refer to what I said. They're a luxury item. They don't actually do anything. They'll never help you with in-game performance, and you can just throw one in and still in budget in the build if he wants to.

[boboman342]

The GTX 970 supports GPU capture, putting no strain on the CPU to do streaming.

 

As far as the SSD, refer to what I said. They're a luxury item. They don't actually do anything. They'll never help you with in-game performance, and you can just throw one in and still in budget in the build if he wants to.

Its $50 for a 120gb ssd or $30 for a 64GB one....just do it. Does the gpu support live streaming? I thought it could only record 1080p and stream through another program (hogging cpu resources) ?

[MattTheMayor]

If you're wanting a 1k build, take advantage of this. Was gonna buy the parts, but things got rustled (my jimmies *wink*) and had to lower my budget

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/user/MattTheMayor/saved/tc3mP6

[Dagh]

First of all, thanks @Lotus, @boboman342 and @MattTheMayor for your quick answers and your help! It's very much appreciated since I'm slowly introducing myself to this world full of achronyms and stuff.

 

I forgot to mention my budget is indeed around 1k, and also I live in Mexico, but I was thinking about buying all the parts online so I thought there would be no difference (other than tremendous shipping prices). But I'm guessing it does matters since not all companies ship to Mexico.

 

Again, thanks for all your answers. Such a nice first impression of this forums!

[halfbreed]

I don't know enough about the FX 6300 performance to know if it can handle DayZ but it should run everything excellently. I hope this helps.

 

Nice build