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22-11-2012 9:09pm#1
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Stealing MrTules build and throwing out a fourth option.
, this comes in a shade under €400. Although an i3 build would probably be a slightly preferred option I don't think we can reasonably afford to spend 1/4 of the budget on the CPU in this instance. I think this is a reasonably balanced build that will do everything you need.
The Athlon II X4 ain't the greatest but it is cheap and cheerful, and you have to make a compromise somewhere on this sort of budget. It certainly won't hinder gaming performance in any graphically intensive games that are GPU bound.
Also the motherboard can currently support any CPU up to an FX-8300 (and hopefully next years AMD CPU crop as well if ASUS add bios support), so you will not be stuck for a CPU upgrade in the future.
The GPU will be well able to handle any game you throw at it @720p.
Item|Price
BitFenix Merc Alpha|€34.00
Super-Flower Amazon 80Plus 450W|€42.28
ASUS M5A78L LE, Sockel AM3+, ATX|€50.15
AMD Athlon II X4 640 Box AM3|€64,50
8GB-Kit G.Skill PC3-10667U CL9|€28.33
WD Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 3 6Gb/s|€53.54
Sapphire Radeon HD 7750, 2GB DDR3|€87.03
Samsung SH-118AB DVD-RW|€13.33
Shipping|€18.99
Total|€392.150 -
Hi thanks for the reply, looks like a solid build. I like the fact the processor can be upgraded in the future when I get more funds.
Would the AMD Phenom II X4 945 work on that motherboard?
On CPUBenchmark its gets a much higher rating than the AMD Athlon II X4 640
AMD Phenom II X4 945 - 3804 Price 67.09
AMD Athlon II X4 640 - 3365 Price 64.50
Also might be able to stretch the budget to 440 euro for the graphics card if it means playing the games at higher resolution than 720P or would the processor be holding me back? Or would the built allow me to play games at say 1600 by xxxx
resolution? Sorry for all the questions, just want to get the best value for my money 0 -
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Hi thanks for the reply, looks like a solid build. I like the fact the processor can be upgraded in the future when I get more funds.
Would the AMD Phenom II X4 945 work on that motherboard?
On CPUBenchmark its gets a much higher rating than the AMD Athlon II X4 640
AMD Phenom II X4 945 - 3804 Price 67.09
AMD Athlon II X4 640 - 3365 Price 64.50
Also might be able to stretch the budget to 440 euro for the graphics card if it means playing the games at higher resolution than 720P or would the processor be holding me back? Or would the built allow me to play games at say 1600 by xxxx
resolution? Sorry for all the questions, just want to get the best value for my money
The HD7750 is a decent enough card and would do a very respectable job gaming up to about 1680X1050 resolutions or so.
The phenom could be used on that board as well, for gaming the Phenoms II don't tend to do much better than a similarly clocked Athlon II as they have the exact same same CPU cores, the Athlon doesn't have an L3 cache which improves performance in certain other tasks, but it doesn't tend to have much impact on gaming performance.
Still for another 3 euro might as well throw it in.0 -
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Might stretch out a bit further
Is the AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition much better than the X4 945?
http://lb.hardwareversand.de/Socket+AM3/27814/AMD+Phenom+II+X4+965+Black+Edition+Box%2C+Sockel+AM3.article
Its only an extra 20 quid.
Also is there an different graphics card thats better than the 7750 for around an extra 20 quid
Thanks
This HIS HD 7770 is exactly 20 more than that 7750.
Loads of other cards 7770 around the same price this Gigabyte is only 2 more and overclocked by another 100MHz.
Haven't time now but no harm looking at a few reviews to see which are the quietest and have the best warranties, I don't have a particularly strong recommendation for any of them over the others.
See other thread RE 965. 0 -
Cheers for the reply. Can join other thread with this one as I probably shouldn't have making two. Final build is below. Will all parts work together? Going to build it myself. How do people do the table with the links on here? No clue lol. Ordering it Monday
BitFenix Merc Alpha €34.00
Super-Flower Amazon 80Plus 450W €42.28
ASUS M5A78L LE, Sockel AM3+, ATX €50.15
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Box, Sockel AM3 €85.87
8GB-Kit G.Skill PC3-10667U CL9 €28.33
WD Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 3 6Gb/s €53.54
HIS HD 7770 GDDR5 1024MB DVI HDMI 2xMiniDP €107.74
Samsung SH-118AB DVD-RW €13.33
Shipping €18.99
Total €433.800 -
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That's the card I put in my son's PC. It's great GPU for the price.marco_polo wrote: »This HIS HD 7770 is exactly 20 more than that 7750.
Loads of other cards 7770 around the same price this Gigabyte is only 2 more and overclocked by another 100MHz.
Haven't time now but no harm looking at a few reviews to see which are the quietest and have the best warranties, I don't have a particularly strong recommendation for any of them over the others.
See other thread RE 965.0 -
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