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hi i purchased an AMD 8 core fx 8120 build off some guy on gumtree which set me back 250 and it came in a nice coolermaster case, its got an aftermarket cooler on it, some gigabyte motherboard and an asus radeon 7850 gpu which i spent 80 on, was it worth it? if not could i have made a better pc under 300. i have attached 2 images showing the pc if anyone would like to have a look...

btw im new to pc's 

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for 250..it was a good buy

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Pretty good deal mate. :)

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I personally would have probably gone with another CPU, but for $300 you did very well. 

 

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I don't think that is an aftermarket cooler on the cpu in that picture. I looks like the AMD sticker was peeled off a stock fan. 

 

Edit:broken link

Though that is still really good for $300.

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Pretty good, the 8150 is a bit "meh", you would have been better served by a core 2 quad or something along those lines. However, there are not going to be any bottlenecks between the CPU and the GPU that I can think of. For $250, I personally think it's a steal. To be honest I think I would put the 8-core to better use as a VM machine running Linux and things like that, but for this it's totally fine.

 

Just don't expect to be able to upgrade it very much, at least not to the point that it would be worth it. 8150 at stock speeds is really pushing it as far as power goes.

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hi i purchased an AMD 8 core fx 8120 build off some guy on gumtree which set me back 250 and it came in a nice coolermaster case, its got an aftermarket cooler on it, some gigabyte motherboard and an asus radeon 7850 gpu which i spent 80 on, was it worth it? if not could i have made a better pc under 300. i have attached 2 images showing the pc if anyone would like to have a look...

btw im new to pc's 

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well worth it

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Not he best I have heard of but very good for only $300. CPU is a little lacking but that can be your next upgrade. 

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well worth it

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That's an amazing deal.

I have a worse rig, it cost me 600$

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hi i purchased an AMD 8 core fx 8120 build off some guy on gumtree which set me back 250 and it came in a nice coolermaster case, its got an aftermarket cooler on it, some gigabyte motherboard and an asus radeon 7850 gpu which i spent 80 on, was it worth it? if not could i have made a better pc under 300. i have attached 2 images showing the pc if anyone would like to have a look...

btw im new to pc's 

Pretty good deal.

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Really good build for 300$, I'm impressed.

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I don't think that is an aftermarket cooler on the cpu in that picture. I looks like the AMD sticker was peeled off a stock fan. 

http://storage7.static.itmages.ru/i/11/1009/h_1318177874_6226733_bd8dcfb769.jpeg (hit refresh it it doesn't load, link isn't the best but was on google.)

Though that is still really good for $300.

It is an aftermarket one check the bars that keep the motor in place

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