• Check my build
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Alright, I'm actually kind of rusty at building full computers since I've been doing piece-by-piece upgrades for years, so I just wanted to double-check that I'm not about to do anything stupid with this build I'm doing for a friend: BitFenix Prodigy (Black, ITX) ASRock FM2A88X-ITX+ Athlon 760K CoolerMaster Hyper TX3 cooler Zotac GeForce 760 (2GB, 256-bit memory interface) 2x4GB Team DDR3-1600 Corsair CX500M NZXT FN-140RB case fans (2x) ADATA Premier 64GB SSD And he's already got a hard drive that will work, although he can't recall exactly what it is. Everything look good? No stupid worthless shit in the build? Nothing that won't fit? PSU not too weak?
Nothing is incorrect, but if you can swing an extra few bucks, I'd suggest getting an i3. Even the lowest end i3 4130 will outperform that athlon for gaming. (If that's what this build is for) Plus it's a 54watt proc versus a 100watt.
This build is a bit inbalanced. You should get a better processor versus that graphics card and you should also get a bigger SSD or not get one at all and allow yourself some money for the other parts, but I can't give you a full recommendation until you give a budget (and a nationality for that matter).
[QUOTE=flayne;43548429]This build is a bit inbalanced. You should get a better processor versus that graphics card and you should also get a bigger SSD or not get one at all and allow yourself some money for the other parts, but I can't give you a full recommendation until you give a budget (and a nationality for that matter).[/QUOTE] Budget was roughly $700, US, buying everything off Newegg for convenience. I'd gone with a Bulldozer CPU because one program he uses is very core-heavy, but let me check how much more an i3 or i5 build would be. Edit: OK, an i3-4130 build would be about $20 more. But is that really going to perform much better? The benchmarks I'm looking at show them as roughly equal, although I suppose the heat and noise might be worth it.
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