New gaming Build

[ZeusXI]

Friend wants to play Skyrim and a few other games like that, Was thinking the GTX 1060 in the build, but as some say, AMD has more headroom to improve their drivers, so the RX 480 could potentially be better than the 1060 in the long run. Also, looking for a build about 500$, maybe 550 max, includes and OS.

Dont need liquid cooling honestly, and im not sure if skyrim is very CPU intensive, so a dual core, or a little 4 core would be fine. amd or intel cpu dont mind. probably wouldnt mind the H212 Evo for a cpu cooler. Wouldnt mind a micro atx for portability 

Any suggestions, please post

[pinksnowmanshandle]

New Builds and Planning might be the thread you'd want to post something like this in the future, anyways are you talking US dollars or some other currency that uses that symbol?

[ZeusXI]

Just now, wcreek said:

New Builds and Planning might be the thread you'd want to post something like this in the future, anyways are you talking US dollars or some other currency that uses that symbol?

USD yes. sorry i wasnt specific

 

[pinksnowmanshandle]

Just now, ZeusXI said:

USD yes. sorry i wasnt specific

 

Ah it's okay but sometimes $ doesn't always mean US$.

[aeroencychris]

This is as low as you can reasonably go imo

 

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

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($110.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H110M-A Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($47.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($39.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($47.49 @ OutletPC) 
Case: NZXT Source 210 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($39.89 @ OutletPC) 
Power Supply: EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($45.98 @ Newegg) 
Other: RX 480 ($240.00)
Total: $572.32
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-07-29 00:33 EDT-0400

 

Getting used storage from an old PC would be best in this case so you can save some money.

You might be able to cut down a small bit with Haswell but I wouldn't advise that. Just save up a bit more for something decent

[pinksnowmanshandle]

Just now, cdsboy2000 said:

This is as low as you can reasonably go imo

 

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

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($110.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H110M-A Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($47.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($39.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($47.49 @ OutletPC) 
Case: NZXT Source 210 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($39.89 @ OutletPC) 
Power Supply: EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($45.98 @ Newegg) 
Other: RX 480 ($240.00)
Total: $572.32
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-07-29 00:33 EDT-0400

 

Getting used storage from an old PC would be best in this case so you can save some money.

You might be able to cut down a small bit with Haswell but I wouldn't advise that. Just save up a bit more for something decent

Well the 500B would be plenty, if this was 2014 or 2015 I could maybe suggest an FX 6300 but it being 2016 and the i3 6100 easily beating it and costing about the same (I don't recall the i3 4170 beating the FX 6300 quite as much as the i3 6100 has.)

[aeroencychris]

2 minutes ago, wcreek said:

Well the 500B would be plenty, if this was 2014 or 2015 I could maybe suggest an FX 6300 but it being 2016 and the i3 6100 easily beating it and costing about the same (I don't recall the i3 4170 beating the FX 6300 quite as much as the i3 6100 has.)

600B has a really good deal right now, but yes, I agree

I don't trust AMD CPUs even for budget build, call me a fanboy but it's just my take

[pinksnowmanshandle]

Just now, cdsboy2000 said:

600B has a really good deal right now, but yes, I agree

I don't trust AMD CPUs even for budget build, call me a fanboy but it's just my take

Like I said a year or two ago the cheaper AMD CPU wasn't that bad of a buy, but a year or two later it has lost some value. I have nothing against Intel or AMD, like I don't have anything against AMD or Nvidia. 

 

I think for laptops AMD is a better deal for iGPUs and I want an AMD GPU when I end up building my PC. Zen APUs could be interesting for lower end 1080p gaming but I'm interested in higher end 1080p gaming (RX 480) and maybe VR so i5 6600K and RX 480 it'll likely be for me at least. Though maybe if I wanted to get into 1440p, I'd consider a 1070. That thing from what I could tell easily runs 1440p at high or max preset.

 

[aeroencychris]

17 minutes ago, CUDA_Cores said:

OK this is actually a pretty good deal. Go onto ebay and pick up THIS dell optiplex 790: ($224.90)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/DELL-Optiplex-790-MT-Desktop-QUAD-Core-i7-2600-3-40-Ghz-8-Gb-RAM-1-TB-HDD-DVDRW-/232030775339?hash=item36061ca82b:g:a84AAOSwIgNXmosM

 

This computer will come with nearly everything we need including the:

Motherboard

CPU

RAM

Case

 

Now we just need to pick up a new GPU, PSU and an SSD:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Storage: Silicon Power Silm S55 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($34.99 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($39.99 @ NCIX US) 
Other: RX 480 ($240.00)
Total: $314.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-07-29 00:45 EDT-0400

 

total = $539.98

 

Doing this would give you better CPU performance than the builds above and give you an SSD and the same GPU performance. Honestly I would do this instead. 

 

 

Not terrible but I have mixed thoughts about CPU gens that old, even if it's an i7. It would certainly get the job done though.