Hello Everyone!
My friend is going to be purchasing a new computer and he didn't give me a solid price range yet, just told me from 400-600. Though he is getting paid and might increase that to about 800, not too sure yet. He's going to want to game on it, mainly. Games like Total war:Shogun 2. Skyrim, Battlefield 3, maybe an MMO or two. So i was enlisted in helping to find some parts for him since he has no clue. This is what i came up with.
I went AMD because for under 1000, personally, i think it's more cost effective and you won't really have to skimp on other parts, please, correct me if i am wrong.
MOBO:
Newegg.com - ASRock 970 EXTREME3 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
GPU:
Newegg.com - ASRock 970 EXTREME3 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
(It's the GTX 480, a lot of people forget it's still around =) )
Power Supply:
Newegg.com - Rosewill RP600V2-S-SL 600W ATX12V v2.01 SLI Ready Power Supply
CPU:
Newegg.com - AMD FX-4170 Zambezi 4.2GHz (4.3GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 125W Quad-Core Desktop Processor FD4170FRGUBOX
RAM:
Newegg.com - G.SKILL Value Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) Desktop Memory Model F3-10600CL9D-8GBNT
HARD DRIVE:
Newegg.com - Western Digital Caviar Black WD5002AALX 500GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
DISK DRIVE:
Newegg.com - ASUS 24X DVD Burner - Bulk 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 12X DVD+R DL 24X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM Black SATA Model DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS - CD / DVD Burners
So i just wanted to check in, if you can think of a better Intel build please share.(Maybe the I5-3550?) I know the FX series isn't all too good in comparison to Intel but those would be a little too costly unfortunately. If i made a mistake anywhere please let me know!
Thanks everyone !
~Zarth
My friend is going to be purchasing a new computer and he didn't give me a solid price range yet, just told me from 400-600. Though he is getting paid and might increase that to about 800, not too sure yet. He's going to want to game on it, mainly. Games like Total war:Shogun 2. Skyrim, Battlefield 3, maybe an MMO or two. So i was enlisted in helping to find some parts for him since he has no clue. This is what i came up with.
I went AMD because for under 1000, personally, i think it's more cost effective and you won't really have to skimp on other parts, please, correct me if i am wrong.
MOBO:
Newegg.com - ASRock 970 EXTREME3 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
GPU:
Newegg.com - ASRock 970 EXTREME3 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
(It's the GTX 480, a lot of people forget it's still around =) )
Power Supply:
Newegg.com - Rosewill RP600V2-S-SL 600W ATX12V v2.01 SLI Ready Power Supply
CPU:
Newegg.com - AMD FX-4170 Zambezi 4.2GHz (4.3GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 125W Quad-Core Desktop Processor FD4170FRGUBOX
RAM:
Newegg.com - G.SKILL Value Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) Desktop Memory Model F3-10600CL9D-8GBNT
HARD DRIVE:
Newegg.com - Western Digital Caviar Black WD5002AALX 500GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
DISK DRIVE:
Newegg.com - ASUS 24X DVD Burner - Bulk 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 12X DVD+R DL 24X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM Black SATA Model DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS - CD / DVD Burners
So i just wanted to check in, if you can think of a better Intel build please share.(Maybe the I5-3550?) I know the FX series isn't all too good in comparison to Intel but those would be a little too costly unfortunately. If i made a mistake anywhere please let me know!
Thanks everyone !
~Zarth