Anything I shold know apout these parts?

[Abdullahseba]

Hi

I'm going to build a PC for someone and I have chosen some parts on pc parts list.

Is there any known problem with the parts I choose such as unsuitability, over heating etc? 

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/abdullahseba/saved/#view=PWVj4D

Thanks in advance.

[HKZeroFive]

Budget? Use?

 

If you ask me, spending double of the price of your CPU on storage doesn't sound like a good idea.

[Streetguru]

17 minutes ago, Abdullahseba said:

Hi

Spend a bit more on your power supply and motherboard, you don't need the after market cooler or thermal paste, or the extra fan, that cooler probably won't even be much if any better than the stock cooler

 

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

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor  (£96.99 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H110M-S2HP Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£58.84 @ More Computers)
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  (£27.48 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£40.36 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R7 360 2GB Video Card  (£82.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Fractal Design Core 1000 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (£28.95 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX XT 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£48.22 @ More Computers)
Total: £383.83
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-24 07:46 GMT+0000

[Abdullahseba]

9 minutes ago, HKZeroFive said:

Budget? Use?

 

If you ask me, spending double of the price of your CPU on storage doesn't sound like a good idea.

Good point, £400 is the budget and the use is a sort of mini work station.But my experience with the amd phenom ii x4 955 which is less powerful, is very good and its running really fast. We'll need lots of large programs installed. I'm taking LARGE programs Which will take about half the space.

 

[Abdullahseba]

2 minutes ago, Abdullahseba said:

woops

 

[FrenchToast]

What kind of work are you going to be doing? If you aren't going to be gaming or doing video editing and such, then you may want to sacrafice the video card, and use that money for a better CPU. This all depends on what you are going to be doing though

[Streetguru]

8 minutes ago, Abdullahseba said:

Good point, £400 is the budget and the use is a sort of mini work station.But my experience with the amd phenom ii x4 955 which is less powerful, is very good and its running really fast. We'll need lots of large programs installed. I'm taking LARGE programs Which will take about half the space.

 

Wait why do you have a 500gb SSD, get a 1TB hard drive if you need space man, you could use the saved money to probably upgrade to an i3

 

RIP 860K in the UK
 

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

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor  (£96.99 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H110M-S2HP Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£58.84 @ More Computers)
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  (£27.48 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£40.36 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R7 360 2GB Video Card  (£82.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Fractal Design Core 1000 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (£28.95 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX XT 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£48.22 @ More Computers)
Total: £383.83
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-24 07:46 GMT+0000

[Abdullahseba]

Just now, Streetguru said:

Wait why do you have a 500gb SSD, get a 1TB hard drive if you need space man, you could use the saved money to probably upgrade to an i3

An SSD plays a big part in speeding the programs and windows immensely.

I have a similar build but with a AMD phenom ii x4 955 and two gpus (don't laugh)  Radeon HD8470 and Nivida GT220.

Its super quick and runs photoshop, autocad premre pro easily. The downside is slow rendering time but I'm willing to wait.

I have a 1TB HDD in the same computer but programs installed on it run SLOW with long loading times.

[Abdullahseba]

13 minutes ago, FrenchToast said:

What kind of work are you going to be doing? If you aren't going to be gaming or doing video editing and such, then you may want to sacrafice the video card, and use that money for a better CPU. This all depends on what you are going to be doing though

I do video editing and 3d designing but no gaming.

[Streetguru]

1 minute ago, Abdullahseba said:

I do video editing and 3d designing but no gaming.

Should really save up a bit more

 

also you don't need a 360 just get a 250 GPU

 

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

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor  (£96.99 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H110M-S2HP Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£58.84 @ More Computers)
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  (£27.48 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Sandisk SSD PLUS 480GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£97.98 @ Ebuyer)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R7 250 2GB Core Edition Video Card  (£56.99 @ Novatech)
Case: Fractal Design Core 1000 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (£28.95 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX TS 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£31.99 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £399.22
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-24 07:59 GMT+0000

[FrenchToast]

1 minute ago, Abdullahseba said:

I do video editing and 3d designing but no gaming.

Ah okay fair enough then. In that case, keep the video card, but if you can, go a little over your 400 pound budget and invest in a better CPU anyway. It will honestly go a long way, and you wont regret it.

[Abdullahseba]

23 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

Spend a bit more on your power supply and motherboard, you don't need the after market cooler or thermal paste, or the extra fan, that cooler probably won't even be much if any better than the stock cooler

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/vQJQ8d
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/vQJQ8d/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 860K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£58.21 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-HD3 Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard  (£43.65 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£23.99 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£124.99 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Asus Radeon R7 360 2GB Video Card  (£94.98 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Deepcool TESSERACT BF ATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply: XFX XT 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£48.22 @ More Computers)
Total: £394.04
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-24 07:32 GMT+0000

Thanks, but why the higher watt power supply? The GPU only draws 150W and the CPU draws even less.

Is the stock cooler quiet?

[Streetguru]

Just now, Abdullahseba said:

Thanks, but why the higher watt power supply? The GPU only draws 150W and the CPU draws even less.

Is the stock cooler quiet?

That was more for the future, but since it doesn't look like you need to upgrade a 430W will be fine

 

the stock cooler will be a stock cooler, upgrade to a Hyper 212 EVO if you're going to upgrade it to anything

 

also you could get an 8320E based build instead of the i3 build for around the same price, and it should be faster in multi-threaded applications

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/X477cf
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/X477cf/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD FX-8320E 3.2GHz 8-Core Processor  (£107.91 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: ASRock 970M PRO3 Micro ATX AM3+/AM3 Motherboard  (£57.99 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£23.99 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Sandisk SSD PLUS 480GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£97.98 @ Ebuyer)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R7 250 2GB Core Edition Video Card  (£56.99 @ Novatech)
Case: Fractal Design Core 1000 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (£28.95 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX TS 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£31.99 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £405.80
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-24 08:02 GMT+0000

[Dark_Fuzzy]

 

1 minute ago, Streetguru said:

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The one time i might actually recommend an Amd build.

[Streetguru]

1 minute ago, Dark_Fuzzy said:

 

The one time i might actually recommend an Amd build.

Ya, not too many reasons to get an AMD CPU anymore, though I'm personally going to be getting an 8320e + that same motherboard, as it's the cheapest thing that'll let me stream dota 2 and capture game footage well. compared to an i5

[JRuss16]

20 minutes ago, Abdullahseba said:

Good point, £400 is the budget and the use is a sort of mini work station.But my experience with the amd phenom ii x4 955 which is less powerful, is very good and its running really fast. We'll need lots of large programs installed. I'm taking LARGE programs Which will take about half the space.

 

that cooler you have in there is no better then the stock so leave that out same with the fan other then that looks good

 

i agree the amd phenom ii x4 955 is a vary nice CPU i was running it tell about 2 months ago when i bumped up to a intel i7 5820k but if i was not doing a bunch of 3D rendering and video editing i would still running my amd phenom ii x4 955

 

[ReesZRB]

Spoiler

 

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

CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor  (£53.99 @ Amazon UK) 
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper TX3 Evo 43.1 CFM CPU Cooler  (£15.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85M-DS3H-A Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£55.98 @ Ebuyer) 
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Blue 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£26.63 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£40.36 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: MSI Radeon R7 370 2GB Video Card  (£113.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Case: Corsair SPEC-01 ATX Mid Tower Case  (£43.98 @ Ebuyer) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic ECO 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£38.99 @ Ebuyer) 
Total: £389.91
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-24 08:18 GMT+0000

 

Note:

G3258 can stack up pretty well against the 860k when overclocked. Newer manufacturing process and lower power consumption.

Downside is that it is dual core and I remember LTT Forum Members hate on dual cores.

You do get a better GPU.

The motherboard supports the CPU out of the box and I believe they did put overclocking capabilities in that board.

If not, then just remove the CPU Cooler and get a Z97 board, G3258 can be overclocked to 4.5GHz-4.7GHz on it's stock cooler I believe.

 

[ReesZRB]

29 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

Should really save up a bit more

 

also you don't need a 360 just get a 250 GPU

 

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

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor  (£96.99 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H110M-S2HP Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£58.84 @ More Computers)
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  (£27.48 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Sandisk SSD PLUS 480GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£97.98 @ Ebuyer)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R7 250 2GB Core Edition Video Card  (£56.99 @ Novatech)
Case: Fractal Design Core 1000 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (£28.95 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX TS 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£31.99 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £399.22
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-24 07:59 GMT+0000

I think he is better off using integrated graphics.

[Abdullahseba]

1 minute ago, ReesZRB said:

I think he is better off using integrated graphics.

Most 3D programs require an external GPU

[Abdullahseba]

Thanks to every one for the suggestions here is my revised list.

If I run out of storage apace on the SSD I can always install the less frequent programs on the HDD

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/abdullahseba/saved/#view=h4XKHx

 

[Streetguru]

8 hours ago, Abdullahseba said:

Thanks to every one for the suggestions here is my revised list.

If I run out of storage apace on the SSD I can always install the less frequent programs on the HDD

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/abdullahseba/saved/#view=h4XKHx

 

Get the ASrock board, it's easily the best budget AM3+ board

 

that one is pretty low end, and the power delivery has no heat sinks, you need decent power delivery to run the 8 core CPUs properly

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131942

[Abdullahseba]

2 hours ago, Streetguru said:

Get the ASrock board, it's easily the best budget AM3+ board

 

that one is pretty low end, and the power delivery has no heat sinks, you need decent power delivery to run the 8 core CPUs properly

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131942

Thanks for the info, I'll look in to it.

The reason I choose the ASUS is because they have good updates and the GPU is ASUS which is handy for overclocking.

And I've had good experience with ASUS.

Another question I have, will the possessor come with the thermal paste and is the stock fan reasonably quite?

[Streetguru]

1 minute ago, Abdullahseba said:

reasonably quite?

Stock fan probably won't be too quiet exactly no, a Hyper 212 EVO would be your best bet for an upgrade at some point

 

otherwise brand doesn't matter for gpu/motherboard combining

 

and that doesn't not make it a low end board with poor reviews, AM3+ needs solid power delivery, hence why you usually want a higher quality motherboard rather than whatever's cheapest.

 

 

Also MSI afterburner is usually how people go about overclocking their GPUs, it works with any brand.

 

 

Although I thought you weren't gaming? why the need for overclocking or the 360? a 250/X isn't going to be too much slower and it's half the price with the same amount of VRAM

[Abdullahseba]

1 minute ago, Streetguru said:

Stock fan probably won't be too quiet exactly no, a Hyper 212 EVO would be your best bet for an upgrade at some point

 

otherwise brand doesn't matter for gpu/motherboard combining

 

and that doesn't not make it a low end board with poor reviews, AM3+ needs solid power delivery, hence why you usually want a higher quality motherboard rather than whatever's cheapest.

 

 

Also MSI afterburner is usually how people go about overclocking their GPUs, it works with any brand.

 

 

Although I thought you weren't gaming? why the need for overclocking or the 360? a 250/X isn't going to be too much slower and it's half the price with the same amount of VRAM

I'm not gaming but I'm like messing around and seeing the difference in performance.

Not at all inportant but just a sort of personnel "thing".

I probably will go for the asrock It has a BIOS update later than the ASUS but the ASUS has more I/O.