900$ Gaming/Content Creating PC Recommendation

[CJ Chua]

Guys so I'm planning to build a PC in this year-end. I'm not sure cause I currently have a part list that I make it myself and I need some recommendations. Here is the part list.
 

CPU : AMD FX-6300/FX-8350

Cooler : Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo

Motherboard : MSI 970 Gaming/Gigabyte-990-FXA-UD3

Ram : Cheapest 16GB DDR3-1600/1866MHz Ram

Storage : WD Caviar Blue 1TB 7200RPM

GPU : Asus GTX 970 Strix 4GB

Case : Corsair Spec-02 (cause it looks SLICK)

PSU : Corsair CX600M ATX (Or any recommendations) 

[_JohnB330ci]

Do you want it more towards gaming or content creaton?

[Guest]

AMD processor?

 

[alexhelvetica]

Don't go with the CX PSU.

[_JohnB330ci]

AMD processor?

 

 

Lol, they're not EXTREMELY BAD.

Don't go with the CX PSU.

Agreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed.

[alexhelvetica]

What are you using it for?

[Guest]

Lol, they're not EXTREMELY BAD.

Agreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed.

To be fair, your reactions to those comments should have swapped places.

[Guest]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($176.95 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: MSI H97 PC MATE ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($76.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($53.89 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($47.99 @ Best Buy)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card  ($334.99 @ B&H)
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($62.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: Corsair CSM 550W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($79.99 @ Micro Center)
Total: $833.78
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-07-16 05:38 EDT-0400

[_JohnB330ci]

What are you using it for?

In the title....

[alexhelvetica]

To be fair, your reactions to those comments should have swapped places.

So you would risk your house being burnt to the ground than use an AMD cpu?

[alexhelvetica]

In the title....

Apparently I cannot read.

[Guest]

So you would risk your house being burnt to the ground than use an AMD cpu?

Can you stop mindlessly hating on anything that isn't an EVGA PSU?

CX series happen to be pretty good. The parts are cheaper but they are definitely Mid range. With the CX750 having even better parts.

Have 10 cx's in 10 different builds. All are working wonderfully.

And yes, I know you have that friend of a friend, or saw a video on YouTube, or heard bad things about them exploding.

But the people who are unhappy complain the most.

They aren't the best PSU by far but people on this forum act like they are Raidmax.

[alexhelvetica]

FX is decent for content creation, and also for forms of deving.  An i5 is better for just gaming.

Very true.

 

Can you stop mindlessly hating on anything that isn't an EVGA PSU?

CX series happen to be pretty good. The parts are cheaper but they are definitely Mid range. With the CX750 having even better parts.

Have 10 cx's in 10 different builds. All are working wonderfully.

Where did EVGA come from? And I have heard bad stuff about CX.

[Guest]

Very true.

 

Where did EVGA come from? And I have heard bad stuff about CX.

Nothing but it's one of the top brands atm so that's why I brought it up.

[alexhelvetica]

Nothing but it's one of the top brands atm so that's why I brought it up.

I don't know how to answer to that, other than that the CX is designed for cheaper less power hungry components, (NOT AMD) so thats why i wouldn't recommend it. 

[Guest]

I don't know how to answer to that, other than that the CX is designed for cheaper less power hungry components, (NOT AMD) so thats why i wouldn't recommend it.

I wouldn't recommend it either, but they aren't as bad as people think.

The main thing that kills them is heat. They can't stand heat very well. (up to 30c)

[david cassar]

here you go

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($242.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Motherboard: MSI H97 PC MATE ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($76.98 @ Newegg) 

Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($53.89 @ OutletPC) 

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($47.99 @ Best Buy) 

Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card  ($334.99 @ B&H) 

Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($62.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Power Supply: Corsair CSM 550W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($79.99 @ Micro Center) 

Total: $899.82

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-07-16 05:53 EDT-0400

[CJ Chua]

Oh yeah by the way I forgot to mention that I also need a 1080p monitor cause now I got 16:9 and its not enough for me. I need the 16GB of ram so I won't change it to 8GB. So I guess I only need FX-6300 cause that's already enough for me, i5 would be better at gaming but I also need to edit some videos and other stuff so.... yeah. Guys calm down I don't really cared about PSU cause for me it doesn't matter too much.

[Sir Asvald]

Guys so I'm planning to build a PC in this year-end. I'm not sure cause I currently have a part list that I make it myself and I need some recommendations. Here is the part list.

CPU : AMD FX-6300/FX-8350

Cooler : Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo

Motherboard : MSI 970 Gaming/Gigabyte-990-FXA-UD3

Ram : Cheapest 16GB DDR3-1600/1866MHz Ram

Storage : WD Caviar Blue 1TB 7200RPM

GPU : Asus GTX 970 Strix 4GB

Case : Corsair Spec-02 (cause it looks SLICK)

PSU : Corsair CX600M ATX (Or any recommendations)

You're going to have a bottleneck with either the fx 6300/8350 if you're going to use the 970. Also there will be no option for you to upgrade your system, unless the Zen CPU will be any good (going to be released somewhere in 2016). Yes the AMD CPU is good with content creation, but you're going to find yourself in all sorts of problems when it comes to gaming.

[Omie]

Don't go with an AMD processor man, just please don't.

 

I spent so much on my rig with an FX-6300 and can't run anything at a comfortable 60 fps. Problems everywhere, fps drops, stutters, etc. Take it from a user who fell into this AMD trap.

 

Just go with an Intel CPU if you can. Even if you don't have enough just save up because it is not worth going with AMD, trust me.

[david cassar]

Oh yeah by the way I forgot to mention that I also need a 1080p monitor cause now I got 16:9 and its not enough for me. I need the 16GB of ram so I won't change it to 8GB. So I guess I only need FX-6300 cause that's already enough for me, i5 would be better at gaming but I also need to edit some videos and other stuff so.... yeah. Guys calm down I don't really cared about PSU cause for me it doesn't matter too much.

Never settle

 

[CJ Chua]

Okay.... I want a overclockable CPU so if you guys said FX-6300/8350 will get bottleneck then should I choose i5-3570K cause I'm on a budget and I can't get over it....