Heres my build [url]http://pcpartpicker.com/user/ibald96/saved/3Tn6[/url] what do you guys think? Im on a super budget.
That PSU is most likely an IED that will fry your stuff, i wouldn't go for it if i was you
Change out the power supply to a Corsair CX400. It's not too much more and it will be safe to have.
[QUOTE=Original User;44068893]Change out the power supply to a Corsair CX400. It's not too much more and it will be safe to have.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://pcpartpicker.com/part/coolmax-power-supply-cx400b[/url] this one?
Whats your budget? 400 - 500$ I presume?
[url]http://pcpartpicker.com/p/316vs[/url]
50$ above budget, but the processor and harddrive is [U]significantly[/U] better and the PSU isn't going to blow up on you
[QUOTE=sereno;44069224]Whats your budget? 400 - 500$ I presume?[/QUOTE]
Want to stay around 450$
[editline]27th February 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=RandomGamer342;44069248][url]http://pcpartpicker.com/p/316vs[/url]
50$ above budget, but the processor and harddrive is [U]significantly[/U] better and the PSU isn't going to blow up on you[/QUOTE]
got it down to 460 [url]http://pcpartpicker.com/user/ibald96/saved/3Tn6[/url]
Your case can support an atx board, which means that you could get an fx-6300/fx-6350 for around the same price as that i3.
A lot of people do have a bad taste in their mouth about amd but seriously, that 6 core will be better than the i3 in almost every application.
Especially if you overclock it.
[QUOTE=XPowgamingX;44072176]Your case can support an atx board, which means that you could get an fx-6300/fx-6350 for around the same price as that i3.
A lot of people do have a bad taste in their mouth about amd but seriously, that 6 core will be better than the i3 in almost every application.
Especially if you overclock it.[/QUOTE]
He could get a 6300 regardless of the motherboard size, but he should get an i3 either way. An i3 outperforms an AMD 8 core in many games, let alone one of their 6 cores. (Although they don't actually have 6 or 8 separate cores)
[QUOTE=Levelog;44072969]He could get a 6300 regardless of the motherboard size, but he should get an i3 either way. An i3 outperforms an AMD 8 core in many games, let alone one of their 6 cores. (Although they don't actually have 6 or 8 separate cores)[/QUOTE]
No that's not true at all. The fx-8350 is neck and neck with the 4670k and beats it in some games.
The 6300 does not get beat by the i3. And in games like bf4 or crysis, where they rely on multiple threads it would stomp all over the i3.
And the motherboard size does matter because the am3+ socket doesn't have support for anything smaller than atx, with the exception of micro atx.
That is still 2/3 of the mainstream form factors...
The i3 and FX processors perform similarly in optimised modern games that don't need CPU performance and are properly threaded(BF3, Far Cry 3, etc).
The i3 beats the FX-processor in games that aren't properly optimised for multi-threading and older games(Skyrim is the most recent example, but a majority of games do this)
The FX beats the i3 in games that are simulation-heavy or terribly optimised but threaded(ARMA, planetside, most simulators)
Now would you pick away lots of mainstream/old titles for the sake of getting better performance in ARMA?
[editline]28th February 2014[/editline]
[url]http://techreport.com/review/23750/amd-fx-8350-processor-reviewed/5[/url]
The only thing games like crysis and battlefield rely on, thread-wise, is having access to 4 threads. The difference between the processors is miniscule, otherwise, as long as they're some kind of modern processor.
Games like skyrim don't run well on AMD's one module = two core design because of it's terrible single-threaded performance(due to shared resources between two cores, most likely). The freaking intel pentium beats the FX 8350 in single-threaded performance. Seriously.
[QUOTE=Levelog;44082734]That is still 2/3 of the mainstream form factors...[/QUOTE]
Sorry I didn't mean to disagree, I cant take it back. You're right, it just threw me off because he didn't have an ATX mobo as his original pick.
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