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[Ben Lang]

Looking at building a budget pc purely for playing counter strike on. I previously played with the lowest settings and on a 4:3 resolution just by personal preference so its not going to be graphically intense at all. heres the parts ive come up with so far.
 

ASRock FM2A68M-HD+ Motherboard
AMD A10 7700K 4-Core Processor
EVGA 430W 80 Plus Power Supply
Kingston HyperX Fury HX318C10FBK2/8 8GB (2x4GB) Black
Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case

total cost 461$ AUD
I have no experience with AMD and budget systems so feedback is greatly appreicated. i already have a ssd boot drive for any system so storage is not an issue.
 

[FuriousGamer]

So do you have a ssd boot drive plus a mass storage drive? Whats your max budget? 

[Ben Lang]

1 minute ago, FuriousGamer said:

So do you have a ssd boot drive plus a mass storage drive? Whats your max budget? 

i have a 250gb ssd that ill use to boot, not going to need a mass storage for what im using the pc for. I dont really have a price tag i just dont want to spend much money and second hand isnt really an option where i am located

[pithball]

If you want to buy an AMD chip get a 860k or wait for the Zen to release. It's just no worth it right now. go with a i3-4170 or a i3-6100.

[FuriousGamer]

Do you have an os?

[Ben Lang]

1 minute ago, FuriousGamer said:

Do you have an os?

yeah ive got windows 10

 

[FuriousGamer]

This build is usd so your going to have to change it. This is only about $30 more but it will give you way more performance. http://pcpartpicker.com/p/PVFbNG

[Ben Lang]

1 minute ago, FuriousGamer said:

This build is usd so your going to have to change it. This is only about $30 more but it will give you way more performance. 

Sorry i have no idea what you mean. 

[Streetguru]

48 minutes ago, Ben Lang said:

 

Here, if you can wait for AM4 APUs that would be better so you have an upgrade path to zen CPUs, otherwise you're going to want a build like this over what you have there, but really if you can wait maybe a month or so you'd be better off, it's not clear when it's launching but it should be soon

normally I'd go with an A8 APU, but it's probably worth stepping up to the A10 given the price difference in AUS

 

and then if you want to OC someday here's some benchmarks

http://www.eteknix.com/amd-kaveri-a10-7850k-overclocking-unleashing-gcns-potential/6/

Board review
http://www.kitguru.net/components/motherboard/leo-waldock/asus-a88x-gamer-motherboard-review/
 

PCPartPicker part list: http://au.pcpartpicker.com/p/zb2W23
Price breakdown by merchant: http://au.pcpartpicker.com/p/zb2W23/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD A10-7850K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($156.99 @ Mwave Australia)
Motherboard: Asus A88X-GAMER ATX FM2+ Motherboard  ($115.00 @ Umart)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2400 Memory  ($66.00 @ IJK)
Case: Deepcool TESSERACT BF ATX Mid Tower Case  ($49.99 @ Mwave Australia)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($79.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Total: $466.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-18 14:33 AEDT+1100

 

 

Bit more for a Pentium + 360, and then you're stuck with a dual core until you can upgrade to an i5 which I wouldn't recommend, hopefully AM4 comes out soon anyways, if you were going to go intel, I'd say save up a bit more and get an i3, they start at around $160 in AUS, it'll be worth the wait

 

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

CPU: Intel Pentium G4400 3.3GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($88.00 @ CPL Online)
Motherboard: MSI H110M Pro-VD Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($99.00 @ CPL Online)
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($51.98 @ Mwave Australia)
Video Card: Asus Radeon R7 360 2GB Video Card  ($159.00 @ Centre Com)
Case: Deepcool TESSERACT BF ATX Mid Tower Case  ($49.99 @ Mwave Australia)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($79.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Total: $526.97
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-18 14:57 AEDT+1100