Posted April 12, 2015 My friend asked me to build him a gaming PC for around $500 but no more than $600 (not including windows, pricing pc itself, already has a monitor, keyboard and mouse,). He wants to be able to record his games while he plays, and wants to remain at 60 fps at 1080p. As for games he doesn't play too many intensive games, he plays League of Legends, Heros of the Storm, Skyrim and Dragon Age. He would like to play more AAA titles but his laptop cannot run them at his playable framerate (60 fps)He is looking to start up a gamming youtube channel, but on his laptop using any screen recording software drops his fps to 30 and below.His only requirement is that he wants an AMD GPU,I have scrolled through pcpartpicker and came up with a couple of builds using AMD processors, however, I am not confident in them as I no little to nothing at all about AMD CPUs.Please help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted April 12, 2015 Why does he want AMD so much? He's clearly fallen victim to AMDs slick marketing tricks Intel Core i7 9700k - EVGA FTW GTX 970 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted April 12, 2015 id go for a 8320E or a 8350, id go for a used gpu. can get more bang for the buck if hes okay with that. Why does he want AMD so much? He's clearly fallen victim to AMDs slick marketing tricks for this price point its okay. for 100 bucks less, and faster then a I5 in rendering? if something is half the cost and still even in the same league, then it should be considered a option. a serious option Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted April 12, 2015 My friend asked me to build him a gaming PC for around $500 but no more than $600 (not including windows, pricing pc itself, already has a monitor, keyboard and mouse,). He wants to be able to record his games while he plays, and wants to remain at 60 fps at 1080p. As for games he doesn't play too many intensive games, he plays League of Legends, Heros of the Storm, Skyrim and Dragon Age. He would like to play more AAA titles but his laptop cannot run them at his playable framerate (60 fps) He is looking to start up a gamming youtube channel, but on his laptop using any screen recording software drops his fps to 30 and below. His only requirement is that he wants an AMD GPU, I have scrolled through pcpartpicker and came up with a couple of builds using AMD processors, however, I am not confident in them as I no little to nothing at all about AMD CPUs. Please help! Does he have any old parts? DDR3 RAM, hard drive, etc... things that can be re-used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted April 12, 2015 There is currently an R9 290 for $240 on newegg. Best deal for high end GPU in my opinion. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202143 PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Core i5-4670 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($207.99 @ SuperBiiz) Motherboard: Asus Z87-A (NFC Express Edition) ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($74.98 @ OutletPC) Memory: G.Skill Ares Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($53.10 @ Newegg) Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($44.99 @ Amazon) Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 270X 2GB Dual-X Video Card ($139.99 @ Newegg) Case: Corsair SPEC-01 RED ATX Mid Tower Case ($35.96 @ Amazon) Power Supply: EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($49.99 @ NCIX US) Total: $607.00 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-11 22:51 EDT-0400 Over Budget, but powerful GPU, overclockable CPU PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($226.99 @ SuperBiiz) Motherboard: Asus Z87-A (NFC Express Edition) ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($74.98 @ OutletPC) Memory: G.Skill Ares Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($53.10 @ Newegg) Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($44.99 @ Amazon) Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 290 4GB Tri-X OC Video Card ($240.00) Case: Corsair SPEC-01 RED ATX Mid Tower Case ($35.96 @ Amazon) Power Supply: EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($49.99 @ NCIX US) Total: $726.01 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-11 22:53 EDT-0400 Core i5 4670k @4.0Ghz stock voltage w/ Corsair H100i | MSI GD65 Gaming Board | GIGABYTE R9 290 | 16GB G.Skill Memory @2133mhz | 256GB Crucial MX100 SSD | 1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm HDD 3TB Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm HDD | 20GB FUJITSU 5400rpm Xbox 360 HDD | EVGA 750W Power Supply | Lian Li Alpha 330 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted April 12, 2015 To be fact with you AMD is really the same as INTEL just a few frame difference. Magical Pineapples
