New Gaming PC! (Budget)

[LOST TALE]

I would but for some reason the prices are higher then the 650 ti So i might just stick with that. 

get the new r7...cheap o card. or stick with that 650 ti ...ew. there are better options out there.

[Guest]

Hello everyone!, I'm planing to build a new Gaming PC For $800-$900 NZ ( about $650 US). 

 

I really want to be able to play next gen titles (bf4, watch dogs etc) at medium to high settings @ 30 fps min.

 

This is what I've come up with so far, but I would love to hear any suggestions on what I can improve from you guys! (please don't go over budget)

 

CPU Amd Fx-6300 @3.5GHz 6 core $163.31

MOTHERBOARD ASRock 970 Pro3 R2.0 AM3+ $117.00

RAM G.Skill Ripjaws XSeries 8gb (2 x 4) 1600 DDR3 $126.00

STORAGE 1TB Western Digital Caviar Blue 7200RPM $98.00

VIDEOCARD Gigabyte GeForce GTX 650 ti 2gb (GV-N65TOC-2GI) $222.00

CASE Antec One ATX Mid Tower Case $88.21

PSU Corsair VS550 550 watt  $76.00

 

Total $864.12

Thanks, Brandon

Go amd video cards while they are for cheaps

[JoshM]

i recommended the 7950 because of its wider memory bus and a bit more Vram seems to me like any 7800+ series will suffice just depends on how much you want to spend.

 

i havnt heard  much about the 6300 over clocked, just know that its not worth getting the 6100 or the 6350 sort of like the decision between the 8320, 8350, 9370, (i think) and the 9590

If you can afford it then get a 8320, i was saying dont get the 4300 as its crap and go for a 6300....wow

[Akolyte]

Hello everyone!, I'm planing to build a new Gaming PC For $800-$900 NZ ( about $650 US). 

 

I really want to be able to play next gen titles (bf4, watch dogs etc) at medium to high settings @ 30 fps min.

 

This is what I've come up with so far, but I would love to hear any suggestions on what I can improve from you guys! (please don't go over budget)

 

CPU Amd Fx-6300 @3.5GHz 6 core $163.31

MOTHERBOARD ASRock 970 Pro3 R2.0 AM3+ $117.00

RAM G.Skill Ripjaws XSeries 8gb (2 x 4) 1600 DDR3 $126.00

STORAGE 1TB Western Digital Caviar Blue 7200RPM $98.00

VIDEOCARD Gigabyte GeForce GTX 650 ti 2gb (GV-N65TOC-2GI) $222.00

CASE Antec One ATX Mid Tower Case $88.21

PSU Corsair VS550 550 watt  $76.00

 

Total $864.12

Thanks, Brandon

I live in NZ too, and... where do you order your parts?  I order mine from a crazy overpriced local pc shop. Cause I cant find another place.  Anyways, you definatly want to put your GPU first.  Secondly it might be worth to go for a slightly lower CPU and a little Higher AMD card.  I hear AMD cards are the best bang for your buck and I'm pretty sure you can crossfire the APU and the GPU somehow (cant garentee im right).  And nothing against Asrock but I've never tried them and constantly hear bad things about them, so try not to cheap out on a bad motherboard.  And if you are trying to cut down for other things, there is nothing wrong with going down to 4GB RAM, because chances are that you wont need more than that for average. Also too you don't need 1600mhz for a budget.  Not at all...  all you need is 1333mhz.  Which is still modest and will do a good job if you aren't going to use the APU.  You also don't need a 6-core unless your planning on running things alongside your game.  All you need is a quad core.  You also need to keep in mind that if you are going to be overclocking, to get a third party cooler.  You must make sure all your parts are compatible and check around the web to see if anyone has the same parts as you and how they like them.  I would also like to mention that the radeon 7790 will come just ahead of the 650 ti and be slightly cheaper.  It will also give you acsess to the AMD Never settle which can save you money on games. Battlefield 4 has a rep for running better on Nvidia cards but out of all honesty you shouldn't notice a big difference if any, maybe by about 0-5 fps I'm assuming.  (The 5 fps difference only matters with those with tons of money)

 

Hope this helped.  I have a crappy system mix and don't want anyone else to end up the same.  So Good luck mate!

[flibberdipper]

Here's a build I put together on there a while ago, for roughly $500 USD.

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/user/tmcclelland455/saved/2wFQ

[Kiwiandapple]

@kinkywink 

 

heres a few of them LOL i was like yaaaay cheap stuff when i found a website like that then went and sulked when i found out gst was exclusive

nice put together for the price, id stills severely recommend a  7950/7970/r9 280x at minimum because its got a 50% wider bus and a extra gig of Vram which by the sounds of bf4 is recommended as i heard it says you need 3gb?  

 

You don't NEED 3GB off Vram to play BF4. I have 1,2GB and got 40 stable frames while in heavy fights @ 1080p at high settings in the beta!

 

 

 

Here's a build I put together on there a while ago, for roughly $500 USD.

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/user/tmcclelland455/saved/2wFQ

 

This won't help OP much because the prices are insane for some parts in NZ. I don't know but the price off that GPU is over 300$ I think.

You could have gone with cheaper ram and PSU and a better GPU for your build. 

[flibberdipper]

 

@kinkywink 

 

 

You don't NEED 3GB off Vram to play BF4. I have 1,2GB and got 40 stable frames while in heavy fights @ 1080p at high settings in the beta!

 

 

 

 

This won't help OP much because the prices are insane for some parts in NZ. I don't know but the price off that GPU is over 300$ I think.

You could have gone with cheaper ram and PSU and a better GPU for your build. 

 

I don't know the conversion rates for NZ (I'm turning 15 on the 4th of November), and that might be my future build, since I think it's time to stop using my netbook to try and play San Andreas, even though it does it well with the lowest settings and the "ghosttown" cheat on. Steady 20, most of the time.

[flibberdipper]

Come to think of it, an A10 APU, a good mobo from ASUS, ASRock, or Gigabyte, 8 or more gigs of 1600MHz+ RAM, and good cooling would be a great starter rig, and then you can throw in another video card from AMD (Like a 7870 or higher, but not 7990) later on, and it would do that weird Crossfire thing, which is friggin awesome.

[Kiwiandapple]

I don't know the conversion rates for NZ (I'm turning 15 on the 4th of November), and that might be my future build, since I think it's time to stop using my netbook to try and play San Andreas, even though it does it well with the lowest settings and the "ghosttown" cheat on. Steady 20, most of the time.

 

It's not about the conversion, it's about what you actually have to pay when you buy the same thing in NZ. They just charge a whole lot more for most things. I would suggest to start your own thread with your current build plan and let people have a look at it. But trust me, you can get a better GPU. 

 

Come to think of it, an A10 APU, a good mobo from ASUS, ASRock, or Gigabyte, 8 or more gigs of 1600MHz+ RAM, and good cooling would be a great starter rig, and then you can throw in another video card from AMD (Like a 7870 or higher, but not 7990) later on, and it would do that weird Crossfire thing, which is friggin awesome.

 

You don't want to use an APU with a GPU if you can avoid it. He wants to play next gen titles, an APU will not do great on that field. 

[flibberdipper]

It's not about the conversion, it's about what you actually have to pay when you buy the same thing in NZ. They just charge a whole lot more for most things. I would suggest to start your own thread with your current build plan and let people have a look at it. But trust me, you can get a better GPU. 

 

 

You don't want to use an APU with a GPU if you can avoid it. He wants to play next gen titles, an APU will not do great on that field. 

1. I see now.

 

2. I didn't notice he wanted to play next gen. Oops.

[Kiwiandapple]

1. I see now.

 

2. I didn't notice he wanted to play next gen. Oops.

 

No problem, learning things is awesome! 

[flibberdipper]

No problem, learning things is awesome! 

Unless it's about things I don't want to know about.

 

[Coolnesgamer]

I live in NZ too, and... where do you order your parts?  I order mine from a crazy overpriced local pc shop. Cause I cant find another place.  Anyways, you definatly want to put your GPU first.  Secondly it might be worth to go for a slightly lower CPU and a little Higher AMD card.  I hear AMD cards are the best bang for your buck and I'm pretty sure you can crossfire the APU and the GPU somehow (cant garentee im right).  And nothing against Asrock but I've never tried them and constantly hear bad things about them, so try not to cheap out on a bad motherboard.  And if you are trying to cut down for other things, there is nothing wrong with going down to 4GB RAM, because chances are that you wont need more than that for average. Also too you don't need 1600mhz for a budget.  Not at all...  all you need is 1333mhz.  Which is still modest and will do a good job if you aren't going to use the APU.  You also don't need a 6-core unless your planning on running things alongside your game.  All you need is a quad core.  You also need to keep in mind that if you are going to be overclocking, to get a third party cooler.  You must make sure all your parts are compatible and check around the web to see if anyone has the same parts as you and how they like them.  I would also like to mention that the radeon 7790 will come just ahead of the 650 ti and be slightly cheaper.  It will also give you acsess to the AMD Never settle which can save you money on games. Battlefield 4 has a rep for running better on Nvidia cards but out of all honesty you shouldn't notice a big difference if any, maybe by about 0-5 fps I'm assuming.  (The 5 fps difference only matters with those with tons of money)

 

Hope this helped.  I have a crappy system mix and don't want anyone else to end up the same.  So Good luck mate!

 

I will try look for cheaper ram/ motherboard, I really like the 650ti oc 2gb Because of great cooling but if you think the amd cards are better I will have a look. I will probably need 8gb of ram and the fx-6300 Because I like to run CPU intense programs. And if i were to go with Gtx 650 ti oc Would I get any free games at Christmas?   Thanks DAT FACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

[Coolnesgamer]

get the new r7...cheap o card. or stick with that 650 ti ...ew. there are better options out there.

Would you recommend the 

Gigabyte 

 Radeon HD 7850 

http://nz.pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-video-card-gvr785oc2gd

[Akolyte]

Here's a build I put together on there a while ago, for roughly $500 USD.

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/user/tmcclelland455/saved/2wFQ

if it was me I would have doubled the ammount of hard drives and put them in raid 0.  I would have also gone for a Hyper 212 EVO, to keep things really nice and cool. Lastly I would have gone for 4GB of 1600mhz RAM, as I don't think 8GB RAM is needed for a budget gaming pc more than, storage or a cool CPU.  4GB of RAM should do just fine!

[Akolyte]

Would you recommend the 

Gigabyte 

 Radeon HD 7850 

http://nz.pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-video-card-gvr785oc2gd

 

Would you recommend the 

Gigabyte 

 Radeon HD 7850 

http://nz.pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-video-card-gvr785o

 

Would you recommend the 

Gigabyte 

 Radeon HD 7850 

http://nz.pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-video-card-gvr785oc2gd

Umm, well the ammount of memory for gpu's these days that really is enough for reasonable 1080p gaming is 2GB.   The tough thing is that I've never tried allot of these cards, so I cant be totally correct and honest.  But I know that I wouldn't go with the GTX 650 ti unless you really really want to, or are going to do other editing stuff other than gaming.  AMD is the best for budgets.  The hardest part is that every gpu runs different games... well, different.  So its important to know what games your going to be playing.  Also check the requirements for the games you want to play.

[Akolyte]

I will try look for cheaper ram/ motherboard, I really like the 650ti oc 2gb Because of great cooling but if you think the amd cards are better I will have a look. I will probably need 8gb of ram and the fx-6300 Because I like to run CPU intense programs. And if i were to go with Gtx 650 ti oc Would I get any free games at Christmas?   Thanks DAT FACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No worries! I've found a direct CU (by asus) 7790, that should be cool as well! you may not totally agree with it, but heres the build I've chosen (change things or just crap it or whatever). http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1Uk2w

[LOST TALE]

Would you recommend the 

Gigabyte 

 Radeon HD 7850 

http://nz.pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-video-card-gvr785oc2gd

the r7 260x has True audio, on games where you actually need a good computer such as battlefield, this means better sound and 10% less workload for your cpu.

 

Im more of a high end and low end specialist, regarding the hd 7850 (med end) you would want to wait for other people's answer. But I think the newest AMD cards have better price/ performance even though they are rebrands.

I would consider their Gpu boost 4.0 (adaptive control on 4 parameters)

[Akolyte]

the r7 260x has True audio, on games where you actually need a good computer such as battlefield, this means better sound and 10% less workload for your cpu.

 

Im more of a high end and low end specialist, regarding the hd 7850 (med end) you would want to wait for other people's answer. But I think the newest AMD cards have better price/ performance even though they are rebrands.

I would consider their Gpu boost 4.0 (adaptive control on 4 parameters)

However, if hes getting a 6 core cpu, then thats not really nessecary, to put more stress on the gpu during gaming sessions.  Unless you have a card that can handle battlefield without lag... ever

[LOST TALE]

However, if hes getting a 6 core cpu, then thats not really nessecary, to put more stress on the gpu during gaming sessions.  Unless you have a card that can handle battlefield without lag... ever

core count do not equal performance

[Akolyte]

core count do not equal performance

I totally understand that, but what I'm saying is that his CPU could handle it due to all its cores.  Not it would process it super fast.  And quite frankly I think I might get a 7850, its cheap now and can run bf3 ultra with about 60fps 1080 (single monitor).  So a great deal.

[LOST TALE]

I totally understand that, but what I'm saying is that his CPU could handle it due to all its cores.  Not it would process it super fast.  And quite frankly I think I might get a 7850, its cheap now and can run bf3 ultra with about 60fps 1080 (single monitor).  So a great deal.

turn BF3 on low and high res. and you'll get a cpu bottleneck.

[Coolnesgamer]

No worries! I've found a direct CU (by asus) 7790, that should be cool as well! you may not totally agree with it, but heres the build I've chosen (change things or just crap it or whatever). http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1Uk2w

Yea Good build but I might just stick with my fx-6300 and 650 ti because I've looked at reviews on newegg and most people are having problems with it!!

[Coolnesgamer]

Umm, well the ammount of memory for gpu's these days that really is enough for reasonable 1080p gaming is 2GB.   The tough thing is that I've never tried allot of these cards, so I cant be totally correct and honest.  But I know that I wouldn't go with the GTX 650 ti unless you really really want to, or are going to do other editing stuff other than gaming.  AMD is the best for budgets.  The hardest part is that every gpu runs different games... well, different.  So its important to know what games your going to be playing.  Also check the requirements for the games you want to play.

The Reason Im avoiding AMD Low-mid Cards is because People have had problems with them, I will be doing a mix of tasks mostly gaming and web browsing If i can find a card that will run bf4 at medium to high at 60 fps then I will be happy ( I dont mind if I have to overclock) 

[Akolyte]

Yea Good build but I might just stick with my fx-6300 and 650 ti because I've looked at reviews on newegg and most people are having problems with it!!

Good Choice! just go with what you want man!