My first PC build

[xHaunterx]

This is my first PC that I built and I was wondering if any of you guys could tell me what you would add or change to make this better as a gaming computer but also have in mind a low budget.
Of course, I could have put a better graphics card and such in there but I made what I thought at the time was the best PC for the best price.
https://pcpartpicker.com/user/xHaunterx/saved/dm6Ycf

[xHaunterx]

Also on the RAM I only got 1 pack, not both so I only have 16GBs of RAM not 32

[Guest]

1. Ditch FX and go for Intel Pentium G4560 for much faster speed. FX is soooo old and slow

2. Why the hell do you need 32GB of RAM if you're on budget?

3. I would add an SSD

4. Case has enough fan, ditch extra case fans

5. You can install OS on a USB stick so having a DVD drive is pointless (unless you have some real use to that)

6. Get Seasonic S12II instead, it's a better power supply

 

 

 

[Jacob Canale]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/yKJbD8

 

[xHaunterx]

I meant to change the thing I didn't buy 32 only 16 and yeah fans I know I went overboard.
Thank you

[Guest]

Just now, xHaunterx said:

I meant to change the thing I didn't buy 32 only 16 and yeah fans I know I went overboard.
Thank you

16 is still too much, you will be fine with just 8

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Jacob Canale said:

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/yKJbD8

 

I don't see any improvement except for a GPU and more money spent on an old slow FX that I mentioned above

[Brooksie359]

ok so you already built this thing which makes it hard to give advice on what to do as if you upgrade the gpu it will probably bottleneck in games so you kinda have to upgrade the cpu before it would be worth upgrading the gpu. i mean you could get a slightly faster gpu and it wouldn't bottleneck too much but at that point it isnt worth teh cost of upgrading the gpu as it wont be all that faster than your current one. 

[xHaunterx]

1 minute ago, deXxterlab97 said:

I don't see any improvement except for a GPU and more money spent on an old slow FX that I mentioned above

I was thinking about when upgrading this to make it VR ready and my plan was to
Change out the FX I knew it was no where near what I wanted
Buy another 950 and pair the two 
And can't remember what else 

[Jacob Canale]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/jfMc7h maybe?

I'm really bad at budget things xP

[Droidbot]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($239.99 @ Jet) 
Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($39.99 @ Jet) 
Memory: Crucial 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($38.20 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($48.49 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 Fury 4GB NITRO Video Card  ($265.91 @ Jet) 
Case: Xion XON-310_BK MicroATX Mid Tower Case  ($22.99 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic S12II 620W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($56.89 @ Newegg) 
Total: $712.46
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-04-08 22:51 EDT-0400

 

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[Brooksie359]

1 minute ago, deXxterlab97 said:

I don't see any improvement except for a GPU and more money spent on an old slow FX that I mentioned above

if you read the post they said they already built the fx build and are just asking what would be the best upgrade. at least that's how i interpreted it. that being said idk why their advice is to upgrade to faster ram. 

[Guest]

Just now, xHaunterx said:

I was thinking about when upgrading this to make it VR ready and my plan was to
Change out the FX I knew it was no where near what I wanted
Buy another 950 and pair the two 
And can't remember what else 

I'd suggest selling a 950 and get an upgrade,  a pair of 2 old gpu in sli is meh

[Guest]

Just now, Brooksie359 said:

if you read the post they said they already built the fx build and are just asking what would be the best upgrade. at least that's how i interpreted it. that being said idk why their advice is to upgrade to faster ram. 

The title was what I went with

[xHaunterx]

Just now, deXxterlab97 said:

I'd suggest selling a 950 and get an upgrade,  a pair of 2 old gpu in sli is meh

This is why I came here 
My thought was 950 + 950 SLI would be enough to get VR plus its way cheaper than the Titan x or the 1070-80

[Brooksie359]

2 minutes ago, xHaunterx said:

I was thinking about when upgrading this to make it VR ready and my plan was to
Change out the FX I knew it was no where near what I wanted
Buy another 950 and pair the two 
And can't remember what else 

change out the cpu and i would wait and upgrade the gpu when you have enough money for something good. having 2 gtx 950s in sli is a waste of money as if the game doesn't support sli or has bad scaling you will not see much of a performance increase. sli is generally only used when you cant get a single gpu that is faster than the one you have like if you have a gtx 1080ti. in that case sli is useful because there is no other way to get more performance besides running an sli setup. 

[Jacob Canale]

1 minute ago, xHaunterx said:

This is why I came here 
My thought was 950 + 950 SLI would be enough to get VR plus its way cheaper than the Titan x or the 1070-80

2 950's brings you no where near a 1070. Don't even get 900 series cards. If you're getting a budget card get a 480.

[xHaunterx]

And yes I have already built this I am using it now I haven't had any real problems with it other than it not being better than what it is already.

I built this PC like a year and a half ago. 

[Brooksie359]

4 minutes ago, xHaunterx said:

This is why I came here 
My thought was 950 + 950 SLI would be enough to get VR plus its way cheaper than the Titan x or the 1070-80

yes but the rx 480 or the gtx 1060 would outperform a gtx 950 sli setup. the gtx 1070 is in a whole different league compared to the setup you are talking about. 

[Droidbot]

6 minutes ago, xHaunterx said:

This is why I came here 
My thought was 950 + 950 SLI would be enough to get VR plus its way cheaper than the Titan x or the 1070-80

Dual 950s = around 970 performance. 

GTX 1060 6GB (3GB unit sucks) and RX 480 4/8GB are in 980 territory, which would bench the poor fucking dual 950s and have better performance in all titles to boot

[Brooksie359]

bottom line i would upgrade the cpu first then i would upgrade the gpu. if you have enough money to do both then that would be ideal but idk what your budget for this upgrade is. 

[Hexorian]

8GB ram makes much more sense for your build and cpu water cooler isn't really necessary unless you plan to do some serious upgrading in the future.

[Brooksie359]

1 minute ago, Droidbot said:

Dual 950s = around 970 performance. 

GTX 1060 6GB (3GB unit sucks) and RX 480 4/8GB are in 980 territory, which would bench the poor fucking dual 950s and have better performance in all titles to boot

and that's with good sli support that has good scaling. more likely it would be worse performance than the gtx 970 in most games. also keep in mind that the vram would also become a problem in alot of games too. 

[AnalogCanavity]

this is a PC you'll be able to upgrade in the future with a Z270 motherboard, anothor RX470 when you have the money or when vega and the volta GPUs come out, and a decent PSU

https://pcpartpicker.com/user/ZIC/saved/BMtBmG 

[Droidbot]

Just now, Zic05 said:

this is a PC you'll be able to upgrade in the future with a Z270 motherboard, anothor RX470 when you have the money or when vega and the volta GPUs come out, and a decent PSU

https://pcpartpicker.com/user/ZIC/saved/BMtBmG 

overpriced PSU, much better value to be had in other builds at this price point