My friends new pc

Zach's Tech Tips · January 18, 2015

Hey linus community my friend is wanting to get a new pc, he wants a pc for low to medium 4k games, he also wants to do some short 20 minute video editing at 1080p, he would also prefer 16gb of ram.

He wants to pay $2000 max and wants to buy everything from pc case gear and he is in Australia. He dose not need pheriferals and a monitor,

Thanks

Hope you can help him

Zach

soaringchicken · January 18, 2015

http://au.pcpartpicker.com/user/EnthusiastGaming/saved/kJM6Mp

On PC Case Gear this should be roughly the same price, if it's not you could bump off the SSD or get a s340 if you want.

alby800 · January 18, 2015

Is he overclocking?

alby800 · January 18, 2015

Here

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($329.00 @ CPL Online)

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($39.00 @ CPL Online)

Motherboard: MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($189.00 @ Mwave Australia)

Memory: Kingston Fury White Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($189.00 @ Centre Com)

Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($149.00 @ CPL Online)

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($67.00 @ PLE Computers)

Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 290 4GB Black Edition Double Dissipation Video Card (2-Way CrossFire) ($399.00 @ PCCaseGear)

Case: NZXT S340 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case ($84.00 @ PLE Computers)

Power Supply: EVGA 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($182.00 @ CPL Online)

Total: $2026.00

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-01-18 22:29 EST+1100

Should be perfect for his needs, if he wants to make it cheaper he can lower it to a 120gb HyperX Fury, those are pretty cheap, and if he needs to overclock, he will have to spend a bit more and get a 4790k, but for editing and gaming, the Xeon is just fine. Also Z97 board is also a must because even if a H97 board supports crossfire, it will probably be bottlenecked anyway by the pcie layout.