Need Help With a Gaming Build

[Coombesey]

Does anyone have any suggestions for a gaming build I am planning to do I only need to play games at 1080p and medium/high settings on a single monitor, my budget is around £500 (768USD and 963CAD) The budget is not very flexible unless there would be a significant performance gain. This does not include the price of peripherals.

 

The current plan I have for my build is as follows.

 

CPU - AMD FX6300

MOBO - ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0 or Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P

GPU - AMD r9 280

HDD - 1Tb Western Digital Black/Blue

60gb SSD boot drive, the Kingston v300 seems good, but I have heard bad things about the quality of the NAND on it, if anyone has this drive could you let me know.

RAM - 8Gb ADATA XPG 2DIMM

CASE - NZXT Source 210 (I'm not sure about this case)

PSU - Corsair CX500M

 

At the moment this is over my budget, so any advise or improvements that anyone has to offer would greatly appreciated

 

Thanks in advance.

 

[TheGhzGuy]

Which country are you in?

[TheGhzGuy]

Which country are you in?

Oh wait, it says England, nevermind

[dadasmithywinkle]

Does anyone have any suggestions for a gaming build I am planning to do I only need to play games at 1080p and medium/high settings on a single monitor, my budget is around £500 (768USD and 963CAD) The budget is not very flexible unless there would be a significant performance gain. This does not include the price of peripherals.

 

The current plan I have for my build is as follows.

 

CPU - AMD FX6300

MOBO - ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0 or Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P

GPU - AMD r9 280

HDD - 1Tb Western Digital Black/Blue

60gb SSD boot drive, the Kingston v300 seems good, but I have heard bad things about the quality of the NAND on it, if anyone has this drive could you let me know.

RAM - 8Gb ADATA XPG 2DIMM

CASE - NZXT Source 210 (I'm not sure about this case)

PSU - Corsair CX500M

 

At the moment this is over my budget, so any advise or improvements that anyone has to offer would greatly appreciated

 

Thanks in advance.

Welcome to the forums! Seems like a decent build, just replace the V300 with a 120GB Samsung 850 Evo.

[TheGhzGuy]

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/x9smK8
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/x9smK8/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor  (£79.19 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  (£25.50 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P ATX AM3+ Motherboard  (£64.94 @ More Computers)
Memory: Kingston Savage 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2400 Memory  (£50.90 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Storage: Sandisk X110 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£45.74 @ Scan.co.uk)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£43.05 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: PowerColor Radeon R9 280 3GB TurboDuo Video Card  (£149.07 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Cooler Master Force 500 ATX Mid Tower Case  (£26.88 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 500W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£49.79 @ Aria PC)
Total: £535.06
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-03-02 22:28 GMT+0000

 

There you go! 120GB ssd isn't much more than a 60GB.

[Coombesey]

Welcome to the forums! Seems like a decent build, just replace the V300 with a 120GB Samsung 850 Evo.

Thanks, I'll look into it

[Coombesey]

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/x9smK8

Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/x9smK8/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor  (£79.19 @ Aria PC)

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  (£25.50 @ Amazon UK)

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P ATX AM3+ Motherboard  (£64.94 @ More Computers)

Memory: Kingston Savage 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2400 Memory  (£50.90 @ Overclockers.co.uk)

Storage: Sandisk X110 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£45.74 @ Scan.co.uk)

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£43.05 @ Amazon UK)

Video Card: PowerColor Radeon R9 280 3GB TurboDuo Video Card  (£149.07 @ Amazon UK)

Case: Cooler Master Force 500 ATX Mid Tower Case  (£26.88 @ Scan.co.uk)

Power Supply: Corsair CX 500W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£49.79 @ Aria PC)

Total: £535.06

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-03-02 22:28 GMT+0000

 

There you go! 120GB ssd isn't much more than a 60GB.

That's really helpful thanks, I'd not thought about the Coolermaster cases

[TheGhzGuy]

That's really helpful thanks, I'd not thought about the Coolermaster cases

You're welcome! Glad I could help!

[Swndlr]

something like this? con - no ssd :c

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor  (£51.99 @ Ebuyer)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  (£25.50 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: MSI Z97 PC MATE ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£64.76 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Kingston Fury White Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£53.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£43.50 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 280X 3GB TWIN FROZR Video Card  (£175.54 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: NZXT S340 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£59.94 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£56.99 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £532.21
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-03-02 22:57 GMT+0000

[Coombesey]

something like this? con - no ssd :c

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor  (£51.99 @ Ebuyer)

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  (£25.50 @ Amazon UK)

Motherboard: MSI Z97 PC MATE ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£64.76 @ Scan.co.uk)

Memory: Kingston Fury White Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£53.99 @ Amazon UK)

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£43.50 @ Amazon UK)

Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 280X 3GB TWIN FROZR Video Card  (£175.54 @ Scan.co.uk)

Case: NZXT S340 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£59.94 @ Scan.co.uk)

Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£56.99 @ CCL Computers)

Total: £532.21

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-03-02 22:57 GMT+0000

Thanks for the recommendation.

I've always been unsure about using the pentium because it is only dual core, do you think this will have too much of any effect on performance if any.

[Starelementpoke]

Thanks for the recommendation.

I've always been unsure about using the pentium because it is only dual core, do you think this will have too much of any effect on performance if any.

Shouldn't be very much bottle neck if any. You can always upgrade later.

[Ja Krispie]

The G3258 isn't that much of a downgrade compared to the 6300. The Pentium will have better single core performance and also since it's cheap, it gives you a better upgrade path to i5 or i7 down the line. You can upgrade beyond the 6300 but with the AM3+ socket being dead it's rather pointless.

[Swndlr]

Thanks for the recommendation.

I've always been unsure about using the pentium because it is only dual core, do you think this will have too much of any effect on performance if any.

with certain high end cards it would probably bottleneck in newer AAA titles.

with this setup at least you can try and push it with the a nice OC, the 212 evo will help with that a lot.

[Coombesey]

The G3258 isn't that much of a downgrade compared to the 6300. The Pentium will have better single core performance and also since it's cheap, it gives you a better upgrade path to i5 or i7 down the line. You can upgrade beyond the 6300 but with the AM3+ socket being dead it's rather pointless.

That's a very good point about upgrading, looks like I will probably go with that.

Thanks 

[Coombesey]

with certain high end cards it would probably bottleneck in newer AAA titles.

with this setup at least you can try and push it with the a nice OC, the 212 evo will help with that a lot.

Yes I'll defiantly see how much I can get out of it from an overclock, thanks for the info.