New PC Build

Black_Jesus

what do you guys think?
anything to change upgrade?
technical problems in part, not working with each other etc?

CPU: INTEL Core i7 4770K 3.5Ghz
Motherboard : ASUS Z87-K

Price: £339.99
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/151076678821

RAM: G-Skill 8GB Ripjaws X DDR3 2133 Dual Kit
Price: £57.46
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0050119O0/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

GPU: Asus AMD Radeon R9 270
Price: £139.00
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00GI2XJM0/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

HDD: WD 1 TB 3.5-inch Internal Hard Drive - Black
Price: £54.95
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00FJRS6FU/ref=ox_sc_act_title_4?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

PSU: Corsair Builder Series CX 600
Price: £47.90
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B009RMP44O/ref=ox_sc_act_title_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

Case: Thermaltake Commander USB 3.0 Snow Edition
Price: £32.84
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B006JQZ8MY/ref=ox_sc_act_title_5?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=AGZZYKTT1GZVV

Total price: £672.14

i5dK

why are you getting an i7 and then skimping on all other parts?

Black_Jesus

i5dK wrote: »

why are you getting an i7 and then skimping on all other parts?

£600 budget

already in that adverse budgeted expenditure



what do you suggest for £600-£700?
(must be able to play games like BF4 and upcoming games near ultra with no lagg)

ChokinOnKush

Get a better GPU, a 270 is ****.

Total GPU bottle neck, with that cpu youre meant to run 2-4 GPU's.

i5dK

Black_Jesus wrote: »

£600 budget

already in that adverse budgeted expenditure



what do you suggest for £600-£700?

get an i5 instead of an i7. Same gaming performance and i doubt youll be using the hyper threading on an i7. then get a cheaper mobo. Using this money you can get a better GFX card.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116899&cm_re=i5_4670k-_-19-116-899-_-Product

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132118

£232 and then count shipping.


also with a 270 your gonna have a hard time playing bf4 with ultra lol. get a better GPU

ChokinOnKush

Ez do you want me to put you something together?

Hit me up on whatsapp/ts and ill put you something together.

Black_Jesus

i5dK wrote: »

get an i5 instead of an i7. Same gaming performance and i doubt youll be using the hyper threading on an i7. then get a cheaper mobo. Using this money you can get a better GFX card.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116899&cm_re=i5_4670k-_-19-116-899-_-Product

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132118

£232 and then count shipping.


also with a 270 your gonna have a hard time playing bf4 with ultra lol. get a better GPU

what do you suggest for the GPU?

Black_Jesus

Cactush0rs21 wrote: »

u sure u can afford it?

yas yas

no broplem

i5dK

Black_Jesus wrote: »

what do you suggest for the GPU?

get the nest card for whatever money you have left over. I honerstly suggest going to tomshardware.com or another site like linustechtips and ask them to help put a build together for you. theyll probably do a better job then anyone here.

Black_Jesus

i5dK wrote: »

get the nest card for whatever money you have left over. I honerstly suggest going to tomshardware.com or another site like linustechtips and ask them to help put a build together for you. theyll probably do a better job then anyone here.

got freaky to help me out

got it down to this


CPU: AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8350 Black Edition 4.00GHz
Price: £131.99
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-336-AM

Motherboard : ASRock 990FX Extreme3 AMD 990FX
Price: £79.99
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-060-AK

RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
Price: £67.99
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-299-CS

GPU: VTX3D Radeon R9 280 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Price: £179.99
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-019-VX

HDD: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache
Price: £59.99
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-255-SE

PSU: Corsair Builder Series CX 600w Modular '80 Plus Bronze'
Price: £59.99
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-117-CS

Case: Corsair Carbide Series SPEC-03 Mid Tower Gaming Case
Price: £45.95
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-172-CS


Total price: £639.98

i5dK

Black_Jesus wrote: »

got freaky to help me out

got it down to this


CPU: AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8350 Black Edition 4.00GHz
Price: £131.99
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-336-AM

Motherboard : ASRock 990FX Extreme3 AMD 990FX
Price: £79.99
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-060-AK

RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
Price: £67.99
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-299-CS

GPU: VTX3D Radeon R9 280 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Price: £179.99
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-019-VX

HDD: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache
Price: £59.99
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-255-SE

PSU: Corsair Builder Series CX 600w Modular '80 Plus Bronze'
Price: £59.99
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-117-CS

Case: Corsair Carbide Series SPEC-03 Mid Tower Gaming Case
Price: £45.95
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-172-CS


Total price: £639.98

i would rather spend 10 bucks more on the i5 4670k and z97 mobo rather than the amd combo. itl give better gaming performance and the z97 boards are new and a little bit better than z87.

CrackinDomes

i5dK wrote: »

i would rather spend 10 bucks more on the i5 4670k and z97 mobo rather than the amd combo. itl give better gaming performance and the z97 boards are new and a little bit better than z87.

Only thing that makes that better is single core performance. Which is just stupid with todays applications and such.

Get the 8 core you wont regret it.

Black_Jesus

i5dK wrote: »

i would rather spend 10 bucks more on the i5 4670k and z97 mobo rather than the amd combo. itl give better gaming performance and the z97 boards are new and a little bit better than z87.

CrackinDomes wrote: »

Only thing that makes that better is single core performance. Which is just stupid with todays applications and such.

Get the 8 core you wont regret it.

was just about to say this

hopefully in the future gonna upgrade cpu cooler and 8gb more ram

i5dK

CrackinDomes wrote: »

Only thing that makes that better is single core performance. Which is just stupid with todays applications and such.

Get the 8 core you wont regret it.

unless hes using programs that require more cores, which i doubt he will.Even if they do i doubt its gonna be much of a difference. Hes better off getting the processor that has better single core performance since he'll get more FPS. And by the time games start using more than 4 cores there will be new tech out that he will probably buy.

CrackinDomes

Black_Jesus wrote: »

was just about to say this

hopefully in the future gonna upgrade cpu cooler and 8gb more ram

I run the 8350 OCed on an H80 which is not a good idea. But I like risk. H100i is ideal for keeping it nice a cool if ya want low temps. Unless you go full blown water cooling which is useless.

This was taken while it was 80F+ in my room so ambient temp was hot.



Value was the current temp as it sat there. Min is when the room cooled down and then the max was when under load.

CrackinDomes

i5dK wrote: »

unless hes using programs that require more cores, which i doubt he will.Even if they do i doubt its gonna be much of a difference. Hes better off getting the processor that has better single core performance since he'll get more FPS. And by the time games start using more than 4 cores there will be new tech out that he will probably buy.

Ive see a few things he has posted in this thread alone that will utilize 8 cores. Do some research. My data is from personal experience not the internet.

claphead2

lol a poor mans rig in this day and age is like a spectrum . he can only afford what he can
woy ya say Yardie > ? < ~

i5dK

CrackinDomes wrote: »

Ive see a few things he has posted in this thread alone that will utilize 8 cores. Do some research. My data is from personal experience not the internet.

he said he wants to play games like BF4 and others on ultra. And an i5 4670k will give you better performance than an 8350 especially when its overclocked.

Look at the programs you use. Then compare the results and see if the 8350 is really better than an i5.

Black_Jesus

i5dK wrote: »

he said he wants to play games like BF4 and others on ultra. And an i5 4670k will give you better performance than an 8350 especially when its overclocked.

Look at the programs you use. Then compare the results and see if the 8350 is really better than an i5.

gonna be doing alot of video rendering and editing, running alot of programmes simultaneously

i5dK

Black_Jesus wrote: »

gonna be doing alot of video rendering and editing, running alot of programmes simultaneously

and an i5 could easily do that. An 8350 will have advantages on an i5 in video rendering, but its not gonna be anything you notice unless you are sitting there and watching the bar.

bbbbeast

Don't get an i5, honestly an i5 is good, but we are moving into a new generation where more cores will be much better than quads. Go with the i7's if you got money, or just get the FX 8350, you won't regret it.

ChokinOnKush

i5dK wrote: »

and an i5 could easily do that. An 8350 will have advantages on an i5 in video rendering, but its not gonna be anything you notice unless you are sitting there and watching the bar.

Your such a biased fan boy.

There wouldn't be a noticeable gaming difference either unless hes going sli/cfx

FYI, the i5 would cost quite a bit more, and he doesn't have the budget.
That system will still rip and probably **** on my phenom x6 @4ghz & my 2 6950's

Dawgzz

The fx 8350 and r9 280 make a pretty good combo for the price.

You could very well go with the fx 8320 @3.5 ghz since you're on a budget and then overclock it to 4ghz once you get an aftermarket cpu cooler.

The i5 haswell is indeed better in performance, but I don't think that the few fps it would provide are worth the extra money.

Black_Jesus

too late now

made the order for freakys recommendation