Question about a new build.

[Narlshak]

Hey guys!I'm new to this forum so yeah:).I'm going to build a new gaming computer and I want some help with something.I asked other people too but I want to hear more opinions.Will a Corsair CX430 80 Plus Bronze PSU power up this system without any problems:

 

Intel Core i3 4330 3.50 GHz

WD Caviar Blue 500GB

ASrock H87M-ITX

ASUS R9 270X 2GB GDDR5

Corsair Vengeance 8GB(2x4GB) 1600MHz

Bitfenix Prodigy Black

And a normal DVD-RW.

I'm waiting for your answers.Thank you in advance.

[miyabwah]

Yes. I don't think it's "Haswell Certified", though.

[EChondo]

Honestly, it will work, but it'll give you almost no headroom whatsoever.

 

May I suggest getting a 500w? At the very least.

[Grape Guild]

This is just my opinion, but I'd go 500w just to be on the safe side. Corsair's got the CX series which is ultra-affordable.  I'd recommend the CX500 or CX500m if you want modular.  Other than that, the system looks good.  Other than maybe the cpu being a bottleneck in the future.

 

 

Edit: I've been looking at prices, and you can get the CX500 on Amazon for around $58 USD.  That's a very affordable price for a name brand, trusted PSU.

Edited November 24, 2013 by Grape Guild

[Narlshak]

Thank you all for your answers.I'll go with a 500W just to be sure as you reccomended.I'm not really informed the Haswell CPUs(a friend reccomended me this build) so could you please tell what do you mean by bottleneck in the future?

[Narlshak]

This is just my opinion, but I'd go 500w just to be on the safe side. Corsair's got the CX series which is ultra-affordable.  I'd recommend the CX500 or CX500m if you want modular.  Other than that, the system looks good.  Other than maybe the cpu being a bottleneck in the future.

 

 

Edit: I've been looking at prices, and you can get the CX500 on Amazon for around $58 USD.  That's a very affordable price for a name brand, trusted PSU.

What do you mean by "bottleneck in the future" ?

[Sarcasm]

Edit: I've been looking at prices, and you can get the CX500 on Amazon for around $58 USD.  That's a very affordable price for a name brand, trusted PSU.

Yeah, no. Not at that price. The CX series are pieces of shit that you should stay away from unless your budget is so low it can't supply Rob Ford with half a day's worth of cocaine. Find an XFX Core 550.

[TheEpicCanadian]

Build looks decent. Maybe if you give us a budget for the build we can help optimize it.

[Narlshak]

Build looks decent. Maybe if you give us a budget for the build we can help optimize it.

I'm not buying from Newegg or Amazon so yeah.I found all the parts in pretty decent prices though and I'll go with it.By the way,if you check the previous answers a guy told me my CPU will be a bottleneck in the near future.Could you explain me this?

[Narlshak]

This is just my opinion, but I'd go 500w just to be on the safe side. Corsair's got the CX series which is ultra-affordable.  I'd recommend the CX500 or CX500m if you want modular.  Other than that, the system looks good.  Other than maybe the cpu being a bottleneck in the future.

 

 

Edit: I've been looking at prices, and you can get the CX500 on Amazon for around $58 USD.  That's a very affordable price for a name brand, trusted PSU.

Will the CX500 fit in a Bitfenix Prodigy though?

[EChondo]

I'm not buying from Newegg or Amazon so yeah.I found all the parts in pretty decent prices though and I'll go with it.By the way,if you check the previous answers a guy told me my CPU will be a bottleneck in the near future.Could you explain me this?

What he means by your CPU being a bottleneck is that more and more games are going to be using 4+ cores, since your i3 is only a dual core(hyperthreaded to 4) this will bog down your performance in the long run.

 

Hell, Skyrim runs decently on i3's, BF3 and BF4 are decent as well, but they recommend quad cores at least.

[Grape Guild]

Will the CX500 fit in a Bitfenix Prodigy though?

It should shoudln't it? I looked on the Biffenix website, and they say that the Prodigy will fit standard Ps2 ATX psu's and if I'm correct, the cx500 is that size.

[Guest]

Yes. I don't think it's "Haswell Certified", though.

Just disable the function in power settings in there will be no issue

[Jack.EXE]

when people need a good budget system, they come to me, after looking over your list, I've calculated the price to be around $700 + OS

 

personally, this is what I would build at that price:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

 

CPU:  AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor  ($147.98 @ SuperBiiz) 

CPU Cooler:  Cooler Master V6 GT 93.7 CFM CPU Cooler  ($9.99 @ Mwave) 

Motherboard:  Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 ATX AM3+ Motherboard  ($103.99 @ Mac Mall) 

Memory:  G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($59.99 @ Newegg) 

Storage:  Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk  ($79.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Storage:  Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($58.99 @ NCIX US) 

Video Card:  PowerColor Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2GB Video Card  ($114.99 @ Newegg) 

Case:  Rosewill Blackbone ATX Mid Tower Case  ($24.99 @ Newegg) 

Power Supply:  OCZ Fatal1ty 550W 80+ Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($49.99 @ Newegg) 

Optical Drive:  Asus DRW-24F1ST DVD/CD Writer  ($15.99 @ Newegg) 

Total: $666.89

(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)

(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-11-24 17:42 EST-0500)

 

I hope this helps.

 

Now for the explaination:

 

7870=270X, this one is almost $100 cheaper (that's where the SSD came from)

the FX 8320 is just as fast as the i5 4430, but is $30 cheaper & can overclock

Coolermaster V6 GT it's just a 212+ with a fancy shroud, & two fans, so at $10, it's a steal.

 

Now that I freed up around $60, I threw that at the PSU, so now you have some upgradability & overclocking headroom.

[TheEpicCanadian]

 

when people need a good budget system, they come to me, after looking over your list, I've calculated the price to be around $700 + OS

 

personally, this is what I would build at that price:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

 

CPU:  AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor  ($147.98 @ SuperBiiz) 

CPU Cooler:  Cooler Master V6 GT 93.7 CFM CPU Cooler  ($9.99 @ Mwave) 

Motherboard:  Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 ATX AM3+ Motherboard  ($103.99 @ Mac Mall) 

Memory:  G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($59.99 @ Newegg) 

Storage:  Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk  ($79.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Storage:  Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($58.99 @ NCIX US) 

Video Card:  PowerColor Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2GB Video Card  ($114.99 @ Newegg) 

Case:  Rosewill Blackbone ATX Mid Tower Case  ($24.99 @ Newegg) 

Power Supply:  OCZ Fatal1ty 550W 80+ Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($49.99 @ Newegg) 

Optical Drive:  Asus DRW-24F1ST DVD/CD Writer  ($15.99 @ Newegg) 

Total: $666.89

(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)

(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-11-24 17:42 EST-0500)

 

I hope this helps.

 

Now for the explaination:

 

7870=270X, this one is almost $100 cheaper (that's where the SSD came from)

the FX 8320 is just as fast as the i5 4430, but is $30 cheaper & can overclock

Coolermaster V6 GT it's just a 212+ with a fancy shroud, & two fans, so at $10, it's a steal.

 

Now that I freed up around $60, I threw that at the PSU, so now you have some upgradability & overclocking headroom.

 

He said earlier that he did not want to buy from Newegg.

[WoodenMarker]

Yeah, no. Not at that price. The CX series are pieces of shit that you should stay away from unless your budget is so low it can't supply Rob Ford with half a day's worth of cocaine. Find an XFX Core 550.

What makes them so bad?

Will the CX500 fit in a Bitfenix Prodigy though?

Yes.

[mkessler9]

Hey guys!I'm new to this forum so yeah:).I'm going to build a new gaming computer and I want some help with something.I asked other people too but I want to hear more opinions.Will a Corsair CX430 80 Plus Bronze PSU power up this system without any problems:

 

Intel Core i3 4330 3.50 GHz

WD Caviar Blue 500GB

ASrock H87M-ITX

ASUS R9 270X 2GB GDDR5

Corsair Vengeance 8GB(2x4GB) 1600MHz

Bitfenix Prodigy Black

And a normal DVD-RW.

I'm waiting for your answers.Thank you in advance.

To be safe get a 500watt psu butt if you ever want to be able to upgrade anything you probably at least want a 600watt psu. Plus the more headroom actually saves power.

[Narlshak]

To be safe get a 500watt psu butt if you ever want to be able to upgrade anything you probably at least want a 600watt psu. Plus the more headroom actually saves power.

I'm not going to upgrade anything on this system.I'm getting it now so I can decently play the new titles.I'm graduating in 2 years and I'm gonna get a new computer then so I'm not gonna change anything on this build.

[mkessler9]

I'm not going to upgrade anything on this system.I'm getting it now so I can decently play the new titles.I'm graduading in 2 years and I'm gonna get a new computer then so I'm not gonna change anything on this build.

As long as your happy with it everything should work. And if your gonna get a new one in 2 years then this power supply should last until then.(When power supplys are under full load they tend to die sooner)

[Narlshak]

What he means by your CPU being a bottleneck is that more and more games are going to be using 4+ cores, since your i3 is only a dual core(hyperthreaded to 4) this will bog down your performance in the long run.

 

Hell, Skyrim runs decently on i3's, BF3 and BF4 are decent as well, but they recommend quad cores at least.

I could also go for a i5 4670K but I don't want so spend more money on this system cause I'm gonna get a beast one after I graduate.Will this system be able to run games like BF3,Titanfall,GTA V?Also,would an AMD CPU would be a better solution?FX 8350 worths like 180euros and it has 8 cores.

[Giancarlo124]

It will work. But switch out that i3 for an amd 6 or 8 core. Its way better for the pricepoint you are at.

[ViruZ_HUN]

Hey guys!I'm new to this forum so yeah:).I'm going to build a new gaming computer and I want some help with something.I asked other people too but I want to hear more opinions.Will a Corsair CX430 80 Plus Bronze PSU power up this system without any problems:

 

Intel Core i3 4330 3.50 GHz

WD Caviar Blue 500GB

ASrock H87M-ITX

ASUS R9 270X 2GB GDDR5

Corsair Vengeance 8GB(2x4GB) 1600MHz

Bitfenix Prodigy Black

And a normal DVD-RW.

I'm waiting for your answers.Thank you in advance.

i see your budget is small. get a Fx6300 build instead

[EChondo]

I could also go for a i5 4670K but I don't want so spend more money on this system cause I'm gonna get a beast one after I graduate.Will this system be able to run games like BF3,Titanfall,GTA V?Also,would an AMD CPU would be a better solution?FX 8350 worths like 180euros and it has 8 cores.

The 8350/6300 would be better for your money. Games like BF4 are starting to use multi-threaded processing, so they'll be able to take advantage of AMD's 8/6-core more efficiently. Also with the next gen consoles using 8-core APU's, we are speculating that more games in the near future will be taking advantage of multi-threaded processing as well.

 

I don't know when you graduate, but the 8350/6300 would be a great choice for 2-3 years down the road, in my opinion at least.

[carolkarine]

wait, why aren't you buying off of newegg or amazon? I mean, that's up to you, but I just don't get it. they are the most trusted retailers for hardware (or just stuff ingeneral) online.

[Narlshak]

wait, why aren't you buying off of newegg or amazon? I mean, that's up to you, but I just don't get it. they are the most trusted retailers for hardware (or just stuff ingeneral) online.

I don't buy from Newegg because I don't live in America.I don't buy from Amazon because buying the products from there,plus the transport money,will cost me the same amount of money.So I don't think it is worth it at all.Sorry for bad englando.