It has become time to build my sons another machine as last one would be better moved to a replacement f or wifes office PC. It was never a good combination, extra cores would not unlock, memory failed (decent quality as well!) at least it is a nice case and a decent PSU, so can keep this.
This time I set my sons the task of selecting components, as at 13 and 15 I thought a little research would not be a bad task and to get them involved. They can be part of the build as well.
Anyway this is what they came up with, the questions is it a good combination as it is right at the top of my price range. Sadly over here in The UK, we cant get the deals like you folks across the big pond and this lot comes to £450 ($685):
Processor £100
Mobo and graphics card £150 each approximately.
AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor
Asus Sabertooth 990FX AMD 990FX (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard
(how is this different from the R2.0 version)
One of the following:
Sapphire HD 7850 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Sapphire HD 7850 OC Edition 2GB Dual DVI HDMI DisplayPort PCI-E Graphics Card
Asus HD 7850 DirectCU II V2 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
All three come with Tomb Raider & Bioshock PC Games, which I expect might partly be the reason for the choice
The original case is already quite smart and last time I bought a decent PSU so thats OK, will stick with decent quality memory although last paired memory failed!
So having added my own research and forum comments, the question is:
Are they likely to be a good match, and are there any other options that would be as good / better but at a better price (I suppose in reality there is only a possible saving on the MB.
My boys are unlikely to OC, well not for a couple of years, and reliability is important.
I realise that this is a bit like the how long is a piece of string question, but any feedback would be very much appreciated. What a great site by the way, glad I found it.
This time I set my sons the task of selecting components, as at 13 and 15 I thought a little research would not be a bad task and to get them involved. They can be part of the build as well.
Anyway this is what they came up with, the questions is it a good combination as it is right at the top of my price range. Sadly over here in The UK, we cant get the deals like you folks across the big pond and this lot comes to £450 ($685):
Processor £100
Mobo and graphics card £150 each approximately.
AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor
Asus Sabertooth 990FX AMD 990FX (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard
(how is this different from the R2.0 version)
One of the following:
Sapphire HD 7850 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Sapphire HD 7850 OC Edition 2GB Dual DVI HDMI DisplayPort PCI-E Graphics Card
Asus HD 7850 DirectCU II V2 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
All three come with Tomb Raider & Bioshock PC Games, which I expect might partly be the reason for the choice
The original case is already quite smart and last time I bought a decent PSU so thats OK, will stick with decent quality memory although last paired memory failed!
So having added my own research and forum comments, the question is:
Are they likely to be a good match, and are there any other options that would be as good / better but at a better price (I suppose in reality there is only a possible saving on the MB.
My boys are unlikely to OC, well not for a couple of years, and reliability is important.
I realise that this is a bit like the how long is a piece of string question, but any feedback would be very much appreciated. What a great site by the way, glad I found it.
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