Ultimate value core for AMD

[AcMaiden]

Hey I'm trying to advice my brother for upgrading his PC.

He wants to go with AMD since he has a lot of spare parts and i'm not extremely familiar with it...

 

Would that make a good ''core''. His budget is pretty limited. A bit under 500$ CAN.

 

http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/zmTHbv

 

EDIT: By core I mean the 3 principal parts

[dadasmithywinkle]

Hey I'm trying to advice my brother for upgrading his PC.

He wants to go with AMD since he has a lot of spare parts and i'm not extremely familiar with it...

 

Would that make a good ''core''. His budget is pretty limited. A bit under 500$ CAN.

 

http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/zmTHbv

"Core"? Do you mean CPU?

[Sauron]

You mean a cpu. It depends, what are the other parts? What will he use it for?

[Majestic]

seeing as you're buying a board aswell, there is no reason to pin yourself to AMD...

[insayan]

Spare parts can get obsolete pretty fast, and anything that's not a motherboard can usually be used by modern Intel cpu's as well (depending on how recent his parts are)

[AcMaiden]

"Core"? Do you mean CPU?

 

 

You mean a cpu. It depends, what are the other parts? What will he use it for?

No sry I meant, the principal parts.

[Sauron]

No sry I meant, the principal parts.

 

Then no. The motherboard is too expensive for that cpu, the gpu is overpriced (you can get a faster R9 280x for cheaper). Again, what is this for?

[AcMaiden]

Then no. The motherboard is too expensive for that cpu, the gpu is overpriced (you can get a faster R9 280x for cheaper). Again, what is this for?

It's for gaming, sry I kinda thought it was obvious but it's not of course ^^

I choosed that motherboard cause he want something decent for the future and he also want crossfire.

He also said that he wanted to get a third screen eventually. I'm surprised that the r9 280x does better than the r9 285. Oh and btw does the ''x'' stands for OCed or OCable?

[Sauron]

It's for gaming, sry I kinda thought it was obvious but it's not of course ^^

I choosed that motherboard cause he want something decent for the future and he also want crossfire.

He also said that he wanted to get a third screen eventually. I'm surprised that the r9 280x does better than the r9 285. Oh and btw does the ''x'' stands for OCed or OCable?

 

Crossfire is going to be terribly bottlenecked by the 6300. You should really consider getting a core i5 and a cheaper motherboard. The x doesn't really stand for anything, it just means it's better than the 280 (amd -.-). The 285 is a sobstitute to the 280, but the current price for it is too high.