Building a new system

[niteviper]

Hi All,

Would like some advice, i'm looking at building a new system (budget-gaming), the parts are:

> Intel Core i5 8400 2.80GHz

> Asus PRIME B360M-K

> HyperX FURY Black 16GB 2666MHz DDR4

> Zotac Geforce GTX 1050 Ti OC 4GB

I plan to reuse my current PSU (corsair 650), SSD's & HDD's

 

What i am looking for, is someones experience & knowledge to help ascertain the following:

Q: Is the system relatively balanced/cash-efficient?

or should i downgrade a part to move that cash saved into an upgrade somewhere else etc..

 

The PC's usage will be mostly:

> Online Gaming (mostly a CPU intensive game like GW2)

> Offline Games ranging from Dragon Age, Xcom, Civ6, Tomb Raider etc..

> General Spreadsheet/word work

> Some personal home video rendering ie: go-pro footage from holidays etc..

> and the typical youtube, movie, facebook standard stuff...

 

All advice, tips, help is welcome.

Thanks

[W-L]

-Moved to New Builds and Planning- 

[niteviper]

ah, sorry.

thanks for moving the post

 

[521778]

https://www.asus.com/ca-en/Motherboards/PRIME-B360M-A/ take a look at that motherboard it is around the same cost and has more IO

[niteviper]

thanks 521778

 

the Asus B360M-A = £62.98

the Asus B360M-K = £49.92

the Asus B360M-D = £58.94

[521778]

2 minutes ago, niteviper said:

thanks 521778

 

No problem for the IO and price difference not really sure why the K model is even a product.

[niteviper]

11 minutes ago, niteviper said:

think its just a stripped down budget version, no usb-c but 4 x usb 3 etc..

https://www.asus.com/ca-en/Product-Compare/

11 minutes ago, niteviper said:

 

 

[521778]

2 minutes ago, niteviper said:

 

Yah looks like it but for the extra £13.00 unless your are on a very strict budget I would go with the A model since it has better audio, HDMI port and a USB-C port that might all be helpful in the future. 

[BlackJackTheRipper]

On 6.8.2018 at 12:25 AM, niteviper said:

Hi All,

Would like some advice, i'm looking at building a new system (budget-gaming), the parts are:

> Intel Core i5 8400 2.80GHz

> Asus PRIME B360M-K

> HyperX FURY Black 16GB 2666MHz DDR4

> Zotac Geforce GTX 1050 Ti OC 4GB

I plan to reuse my current PSU (corsair 650), SSD's & HDD's

 

What i am looking for, is someones experience & knowledge to help ascertain the following:

Q: Is the system relatively balanced/cash-efficient?

or should i downgrade a part to move that cash saved into an upgrade somewhere else etc..

 

The PC's usage will be mostly:

> Online Gaming (mostly a CPU intensive game like GW2)

> Offline Games ranging from Dragon Age, Xcom, Civ6, Tomb Raider etc..

> General Spreadsheet/word work

> Some personal home video rendering ie: go-pro footage from holidays etc..

> and the typical youtube, movie, facebook standard stuff...

 

All advice, tips, help is welcome.

Thanks

I don't know if you already bought that PC but would really recommend you go for 8GB since the pricing of ram is just crazy nowadays. You could also try to put the money you save towards a better GPU (look for cheap-ish GTX 1060 6GB, pay attention to the 6GB as the 3GB has a cut-down chip)

I personally have only used more than 8GB during  stressful combined load (playing PUBG and having a virtual machine with high memory budget open at the same time)

[Fr8ty]

1 hour ago, BlackJackTheRipper said:

I don't know if you already bought that PC but would really recommend you go for 8GB since the pricing of ram is just crazy nowadays. You could also try to put the money you save towards a better GPU (look for cheap-ish GTX 1060 6GB, pay attention to the 6GB as the 3GB has a cut-down chip)

I personally have only used more than 8GB during  stressful combined load (playing PUBG and having a virtual machine with high memory budget open at the same time)

Agree 100 percent with this get 8 gbs of ram and get a 6gb 1060 you don’t need 16 unless you are streaming or video editing