input on a new gaming build?

[rainbrodash666]

so im building my nephew his first gaming pc, he is ascending from 360 instead of getting a xbone, I have a build planned out but would like to see if you have any good suggestions for parts to be changed.

the pc part picker is here, http://pcpartpicker.com/p/HvRN4D, the budget is $600 and I will be giving him a case, disk drive, windows, and a 120mm aio cooler for the build.

id like to hear what suggestions you guys have for different parts. thanks in advance.

EDIT: Okay here's some rules for suggestions

MUST BE UNDER 600 including shipping before mail in rebates

Must be quad core

Seagate hdd

Prefer black and red, as that is color of case.

Also I prefer amd over Intel because of past underhanded business dealings by Intel. Vote with your wallet people.

And he wants to upgrade to Zen in a few years.

Also will be used exclusively for 1080p

[Stardar1]

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/gMMfcf

 

This pentium will overclock to insane speeds, and a 4GB GPU will allow for higher resolutions

 

i also added a SSD

[Jack.EXE]

Managed to shave $100 off and include a faster GPU.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/c9wtyc

 

Edit: Added an SSD to make use of the saved $100

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/VnXmpg

 

Edit 2: Forgot KB&M

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2rpj99

[Jack.EXE]

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/gMMfcf

 

This pentium will overclock to insane speeds, and a 4GB GPU will allow for higher resolutions

 

i also added a SSD

NO PENTIUMS.

BAD.

[Stardar1]

NO PENTIUMS.

BAD.

its a gaming rig and the Pentium has super powerful cores

this thing has the world record for the fastest CPU clock speed achieved ever

[BrinkGG]

so im building my nephew his first gaming pc, he is ascending from 360 instead of getting a xbone, I have a build planned out but would like to see if you have any good suggestions for parts to be changed.

 

the pc part picker is here, http://pcpartpicker.com/p/HvRN4D, the budget is $600 and I will be giving him a case, disk drive, windows, and a 120mm aio cooler for the build.

 

id like to hear what suggestions you guys have for different parts. thanks in advance.

Give me 10 and I'll have one.

[TheKDub]

NO PENTIUMS.

BAD.

 

The G3258 is a beast for the price, and it leaves a great upgrade path for an i5 4690K or similar later down the road.

 

Give me a few mins and I'll have something better. than the OP's list.

[Reuben]

its a gaming rig and the Pentium has super powerful cores

this thing has the world record for the fastest CPU clock speed achieved ever

Nope, G3258 hasn't even broken 7GHz afaik. The record is held by AMD's FX 8 core, 8.429GHz

[Stardar1]

Nope, G3258 hasn't even broken 7GHz afaik. The record is held by AMD's FX 8 core, 8.429GHz

Oh, i wasnt aware of this.

 

but still, the pentium is better than the anthlon

[Stardar1]

The G3258 is a beast for the price, and it leaves a great upgrade path for an i5 4690K or similar later down the road.

 

Give me a few mins and I'll have something better. than the OP's list.

  http://pcpartpicker.com/p/gMMfcf

[Reuben]

reddit.com/r/microsoftsoftwareswap for windows

[Jack.EXE]

its a gaming rig and the Pentium has super powerful cores

this thing has the world record for the fastest CPU clock speed achieved ever

 

The G3258 is a beast for the price, and it leaves a great upgrade path for an i5 4690K or similar later down the road.

 

Give me a few mins and I'll have something better. than the OP's list.

 

But those 2 cores cause so many problems in modern gaming. It's almost better to go with a 4 core AMD and then upgrade to an i5 later on. You'll probably have to change motherboards anyway, with the new architectures coming out.

 

going Pentium right now is only recommended if you're upgrading in <1 year.

[rainbrodash666]

its a gaming rig and the Pentium has super powerful cores

this thing has the world record for the fastest CPU clock speed achieved ever

Linus himself has said that 2 cores is just not enough for gaming anymore. So no pentiums

[Reuben]

If you want to play modern AAA titles, you will have trouble running them on a G3258. It may be fast enough, but four thread optimization prevents it from running well on a dual core.

[Stardar1]

If you want to play modern AAA titles, you will have trouble running them on a G3258. It may be fast enough, but four thread optimization prevents it from running well on a dual core.

With a $600, i dont see much else as fitting the budget, is there an I3 you would recomend?

[IanDrexP]

But those 2 cores cause so many problems in modern gaming. It's almost better to go with a 4 core AMD and then upgrade to an i5 later on. You'll probably have to change motherboards anyway, with the new architectures coming out.

 

going Pentium right now is only recommended if you're upgrading in <1 year.

Also the Pentium is good if you are only planning on playing LoL, HoN, Dota 2, CS:GO, SC2, HotS, etc.

 

 

Linus himself has said that 2 cores is just not enough for gaming anymore. So no pentiums

 

Many games are moving to having minimum requirements of 8-core CPUs (FX procs) or 4-core (Phenom) for AMD or 4-core CPUs for Intel

[BrinkGG]

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/c9nmpg 

There. 

And guess what...

IT HAS A PENTIUM THAT RULES!

And if you don't want the pentium, theres always the little known chip called the core i3...

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3cBgyc 

[TheKDub]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($71.98 @ Newegg) 

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($121.98 @ Newegg) 

Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($48.99 @ Newegg) 

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($49.99 @ Amazon) 

Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 280 3GB WINDFORCE Video Card  ($192.98 @ Newegg) 

Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($69.99 @ Amazon) 

Keyboard: Cooler Master CM Storm Devastator Gaming Bundle Wired Gaming Keyboard w/Optical Mouse  ($29.99 @ Amazon) 

Total: $585.90

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-06-10 13:04 EDT-0400

 

There ya go.

 

If he wants to play games later down the road that require quad cores, he can upgrade to an i5 4690K very easily, and it will absolutely destroy any of AMD's processors in single-threaded tasks such as gaming.

[Dzzope]

so im building my nephew his first gaming pc, he is ascending from 360 instead of getting a xbone, I have a build planned out but would like to see if you have any good suggestions for parts to be changed.

 

the pc part picker is here, http://pcpartpicker.com/p/HvRN4D, the budget is $600 and I will be giving him a case, disk drive, windows, and a 120mm aio cooler for the build.

 

id like to hear what suggestions you guys have for different parts. thanks in advance.

 

 

Would you like an upgrade path?

If no the 860k is a good choice but if you would like to upgrade the cpu later, go i3.. the pentium is great but suffers in anything thast will use more than 2 threads. With this you can get a used Haswell / broadwell chip in a few years (i5 or i7, locked or unlocked) and drop in for a boost.

 

Tiny bit over BUT.. it has an SSD, z97 motherboard and PSU that will allow SLI.. overall a kick-ass rig

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i3-4160 3.6GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($108.99 @ NCIX US) 

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($95.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Memory: A-Data XPG V2 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  ($47.99 @ Newegg) 

Storage: OCZ ARC 100 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($49.99 @ Newegg) 

Storage: Western Digital RE3 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($45.00 @ Amazon) 

Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 2GB Superclocked Video Card  ($189.99 @ NCIX US) 

Power Supply: EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($44.00 @ Newegg) 

Keyboard: Cooler Master CM Storm Devastator Gaming Bundle Wired Gaming Keyboard w/Optical Mouse  ($27.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Total: $609.94

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-06-10 13:06 EDT-0400

[TheKDub]

But those 2 cores cause so many problems in modern gaming. It's almost better to go with a 4 core AMD and then upgrade to an i5 later on. You'll probably have to change motherboards anyway, with the new architectures coming out.

 

going Pentium right now is only recommended if you're upgrading in <1 year.

 

With the pentium you can get a z97 mobo, then upgrade the pentium to an i5 4690K or similar, I'd guess the i5 4690K will stick around for at least 3 years and still be a great option.

[Reuben]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i3-4160 3.6GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($108.99 @ NCIX US) 

Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($33.99 @ Newegg) 

Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($48.99 @ Newegg) 

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($97.98 @ OutletPC) 

Storage: Hitachi Deskstar 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($40.94 @ Amazon) 

Video Card: PowerColor Radeon R9 290 4GB TurboDuo Video Card  ($219.99 @ Newegg) 

Power Supply: Corsair CX 500W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($34.99 @ Newegg) 

Keyboard: Cooler Master CM Storm Devastator - OEM Wired Gaming Keyboard w/Optical Mouse  ($19.99 @ Newegg) 

Total: $605.86

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-06-10 13:10 EDT-0400

[Reuben]

With the pentium you can get a z97 mobo, then upgrade the pentium to an i5 4690K or similar, I'd guess the i5 4690K will stick around for at least 3 years and still be a great option.

Then just save up and buy a 4690K, if you want a 4690K then buy one, no sense spending money on a Pentium if you know you're going to be spending more money on an i5 later down the road.

[Stardar1]

 

 

 

Would you like an upgrade path?

If no the 860k is a good choice but if you would like to upgrade the cpu later, go i3.. the pentium is great but suffers in anything thast will use more than 2 threads. With this you can get a used Haswell / broadwell chip in a few years (i5 or i7, locked or unlocked) and drop in for a boost.

 

Tiny bit over BUT.. it has an SSD, z97 motherboard and PSU that will allow SLI.. overall a kick-ass rig

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i3-4160 3.6GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($108.99 @ NCIX US) 

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($95.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Memory: A-Data XPG V2 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  ($47.99 @ Newegg) 

Storage: OCZ ARC 100 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($49.99 @ Newegg) 

Storage: Western Digital RE3 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($45.00 @ Amazon) 

Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 2GB Superclocked Video Card  ($189.99 @ NCIX US) 

Power Supply: EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($44.00 @ Newegg) 

Keyboard: Cooler Master CM Storm Devastator Gaming Bundle Wired Gaming Keyboard w/Optical Mouse  ($27.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Total: $609.94

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-06-10 13:06 EDT-0400

 

This, but a 4GB 270x

[TheKDub]

Then just save up and buy a 4690K, if you want a 4690K then buy one, no sense spending money on a Pentium if you know you're going to be spending more money on an i5 later down the road.

 

The exact same argument can be made towards the AMD processor, if they're going to have to upgrade it anyways due to sub-par performance, why not just save up more and get a better processor in the first place.

[Dzzope]

This, but a 4GB 270x

All options he can consider and change.. he could also go h81 and 290.. swings and roundabouts.. I'm not currently a fan of what AMD are doing so I generally suggest Nvidia but to each their own.