MOBO and CPU - First Build

[jjwilson4]

I was just wondering I'm building a budget computer of about £530 worth of components, it can be slightly more if it has.  

 

I was just wondering for a budget build should I use a AMD Fx - 6300 or a Intel Pentium G3258.  What motherboard should I use for them?

 

If anyone could recommend a whole computer build using PCPARTPICKER it would greatly appreciated, but can you please keep the pricing for the United Kingdom, as in the USA the prices are a lot cheaper.  

 

Thank you 

[Archangel1994]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-4440 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£131.20 @ Aria PC) 

Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£33.01 @ Aria PC) 

Memory: Corsair Vengeance Pro 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2133 Memory  (£64.03 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£35.94 @ Aria PC) 

Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 280 3GB WINDFORCE Video Card  (£144.99 @ Ebuyer) 

Case: Fractal Design Arc Midi R2 ATX Mid Tower Case  (£65.00 @ Amazon UK) 

Power Supply: Antec Neo Eco 520W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£53.42 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Total: £527.59

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-12-23 12:38 GMT+0000

 

And you could grab some cheapo case fans like I did and have a very strong system that runs very cool. You can't do much better than this.

 

Inbe4 OMG NO SSD. An SSD here would impact the gaming performance significantly. I suggest getting an SSD later or stretching the budget if you really want one but if you can stretch the budget I suggest upgrading the GPU or the CPU

[theloveablemoose]

I was just wondering I'm building a budget computer of about £530 worth of components, it can be slightly more if it has.  

 

I was just wondering for a budget build should I use a AMD Fx - 6300 or a Intel Pentium G3258.  What motherboard should I use for them?

 

If anyone could recommend a whole computer build using PCPARTPICKER it would greatly appreciated, but can you please keep the pricing for the United Kingdom, as in the USA the prices are a lot cheaper.  

 

Thank you 

Well a 6300 will perform better in multi threaded games and may not need to be upgraded as quickly whereas in games where the workload is only really dual core the pentuim K will destroy the 6300 but it also has the upgrade path of an i5 in the future.

 

Drop an i5 in later on and maybe a new GPU when you feel you need it.

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/p9x9XL

[KemoKa]

Pentium-K is a Haswell-based part, so anything single-threaded and it will massacre the 6300, but the opposite is true on mulitthreaded applications like Handbrake. get an i5 for the best of both worlds.

[jjwilson4]

In my opinion the games I would be playing most is World of Warcraft, some steam games like Counterstrike, Assassin Creed and the new Dragonball z Xenoverse game.