Project River Budget Build.

[Mike_diaz1996]

Recenty I built a pc that was meant to be a joke, but it turned out to actually hold its own. So I present to you River V1.0.

 

Specs- 

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/HKKcdC
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/HKKcdC/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD FX-4300 3.8GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($79.99 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: Asus M5A97 PLUS ATX AM3+ Motherboard  ($67.89 @ OutletPC) 
Memory: Avexir Core Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($34.89 @ OutletPC) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($46.89 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Video Card  ($99.99 @ Amazon) 
Case: Corsair 100R ATX Mid Tower Case  ($59.99 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($34.99 @ NCIX US) 
Total: $424.63
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-05 16:24 EST-0500.

 

So this build cost me under 450 because I had some stuff already lying around. I had windows 10, another stick of 8gb ram and all the case fans I needed.

 

So pros and cons time.

The Pros - The case is big enough to build in comfortably with a big side panel window for lighting, the 2gb video card paried with the AMD FX-4300 does allot more than I`d ever ask for (does around 73 fps on world of warcraft with everything maxed) the motherborad only supports 1 video card but for what I do it`s all I need. I bought a 1tb hard drive to pair with my 4tb WD drive for a total of 5 tb.

 

The Cons - The power supply is non modular which leads to poor wire management in this case, and the case has 3.0 usb and the MB doesnt have a header for that. The case also only comes with 1 fan wich is alright but the quality is very cheap.

 

Over all it`s a great budget PC with lots of room for customization. Ill post pictures and I`m gonna make a benchmark video within the day.

[Mike_diaz1996]

[Orangeator]

1 hour ago, Mike_diaz1996 said:

 

Yeah not a bad build for the price. It has a 750ti, which is still a decent video card for the price. It is an immensely popular GPU, so most games support it quite well.

[Socky]

Damn for a $450 computer that's a good deal. Looks good too.

[Mike_diaz1996]

8 minutes ago, Socky said:

Damn for a $450 computer that's a good deal. Looks good too.

 

Thanks very much! 

[Tmt97]

Not sure I get the joke or how this "holds its own"?

[Mike_diaz1996]

3 minutes ago, Tmt97 said:

Not sure I get the joke or how this "holds its own"?

The joke is that some PC elitists were trying to tell me that I needed to spend 1000$+ to get something that is actually playable, I set out to prove them wrong as a joke to myself. It holds its own against some very demanding games, meaning it doesn't fail and die as I had expected based off of reviews and recommendations.

[Tmt97]

Well I think the term "playable" is very relative. To a person who gets really hung up about the graphics quality, and wants to play with all settings turned up to high then they probably DO need to spend $1000 to get something that's playable for them. However if you don't mind turning your settings to low, and have "ok" video quality then probably not. I don't think this proves anything other than that you have different standards than most pc enthusiasts. Also, no offense but I think you got a bit ripped off. I recently built my first PC, and I started with an fx 6300, a Radeon 7950, 8gigs of ram, 1.2TB of hard drive space, and a 600watt EVGA PSU. Pretty comparable to your build actually, except for the fact that my cpu and video card are both significantly better than yours, and I payed $100 less for my whole build than you did for yours. >.>

[Mike_diaz1996]

1 minute ago, Tmt97 said:

Well I think the term "playable" is very relative. To a person who gets really hung up about the graphics quality, and wants to play with all settings turned up to high then they probably DO need to spend $1000 to get something that's playable for them. However if you don't mind turning your settings to low, and have "ok" video quality then probably not. I don't think this proves anything other than that you have different standards than most pc enthusiasts. Also, no offense but I think you got a bit ripped off. I recently built my first PC, and I started with an fx 6300, a Radeon 7950, 8gigs of ram, 1.2TB of hard drive space, and a 600watt EVGA PSU. Pretty comparable to your build actually, except for the fact that my cpu and video card are both significantly better than yours, and I payed $100 less for my whole build than you did for yours. >.>

Unfortunately I don't share your opinion, for the price point and performance I'm getting from it I feel it was very worth it.

[Mike_diaz1996]

Alrighty so I ran Heaven Benchmark 4.0 and got these results, No they aren't perfect but again for the price I think it speaks for itself. This was at ultra with anti-aliasing on x8 and tessellation set to moderate. Stereo 3D and multi monitor disabled.