What do you guys think about my build? I need some honest advices.

[sakuraba32]

Before i explain a bit about my story i need to let you guys know that english is not my main language so please ignore my horrible grammar. PS: I'm from Panama.

So after using for 10 years my Dell Vostro I decided to get a new pc with the help of a person who many people recommended me to work with.

Since in my country it's very expensive to bring stuff from the US, we decided to buy every part at a local store http://imgur.com/a/XXNxH I imagine you guys can understand based on the models since most of the text is in spanish. The total price is $850.06.

So what do you guys think about the parts? do you think it's decent enough for gaming and well balanced? I don't really play that many games, the only game i play a lot is Dota 2 and a couple of RPG games.

I'm very new in the pc bulding world and before all this i was planning on getting a Dell XPS 8910 and i wanted to know if this pc was better or at least give me some advices regarding buying computers from a company like DELL and HP ETC compared to building it yourself.

 

[nsafreak]

For the most part it looks like a solid build in terms of componenets chosen although I would see if you could perhaps fit an i5 into the budget if at all possible.

 

[whm1974]

You might want to stick a HDD in there as well, as games do take up lots of space.

 

[Murloc]

can you cannibalize an hard disk from your Vostro as a non-critical storage/backup HDD?

I'd be wary of going below a i5 as well but that's because I can afford the luxury of staying large, but consider the fact that you can change your GPU in 2-3-4 years without a problem and without lots of money (in fact, upgrading the GPU more often and selling the old one can be cheaper than going for the high end and keeping the same one for years and years), while changing the CPU usually requires changing motherboard and possibly RAM, so if you have a base with a good starting performance it's better.

To spare money:

• Don't go for excessively premium ram sticks as the performance difference can be minimal, look up how it is for ddr4 as I've not checked but it was like this in the past. The heatsinks are sometimes cosmetic. Don't pay a big premium for RAM only for frequency and timings above a certain level as the returns diminish quickly, and see if there are good deals in the shop you're buying from. Also remember to enable XMP in the bios settings to benefit from the performance the sticks offer.
• Make sure that SSD is your best bang-for-buck option by checking benchmarks.
• Don't oversize the PSU, I'm not sure you really need 600W. It's easy to preach and I admit that I'm a hypocrite with an oversized PSU. Don't skimp on quality here, but make sure you profit from special deals by looking at all good brands.

You will get better results from your money with a self-built PC, especially because you're sure to get a decent SSD and a good GPU, commercial computers have crap-tastic GPUs usually because most people don't play games seriously.
With a XPS 8910 you spend more money to get a 750 Ti which is old and worse than the 1050, and above all it doesn't have an ssd in the year of our lord, 2016.
Going from HDD to SSD will do more for your everyday user experience than anything else.

The disadvantage: if something doesn't work, you're on your own, and it gets really frustrating when you have a problem that occurs only occasionally. You need to like computers.

The middle ground: computer parts shops in my country usually offer computers that they build in series themselves, and offer warranty on it as a whole instead of only the pieces (they put a seal on the case so that you can't open it), these are usually better deals than OEMs and they give you the full list of components, and it's standard components so you're just paying for the work really and can harvest the parts when it's old.

You have someone helping you with yours so you're not that far from this except that you probably have no warranty over the whole computer, only the components.

 

[Valantar]

I agree with some of the advice above. All in all the build looks good, but:

• For a value build, go for value RAM. The gain/price for premium RAM is horrendous compared to putting the same money into a CPU or GPU. Get the cheapest kit you can find that is your desired capacity with JEDEC timings (2133c15, IIRC). Heatsinks on RAM are completely unnecessary, so only get those if they don't add any cost.
• Get the biggest SSD you can afford. I'd argue that for most usage, the specific performance matters little, as long as the drive isn't a truly bad one. Get the cheapest, largest one you can get that gets OK or better reviews.
• You really don't need a 600W PSU. Your setup probably won't pull above 200W while gaming. If lower capacity allows you to spend the same money for a better quality PSU, do that. Don't skimp on the PSU, no matter what - it's what keeps your entire PC running, after all.
• Your CPU is on the weak side. However, it leaves you an upgrade path to i5 and i7 CPUs down the line - they'll be cheaper second-hand in a year or two. If you can afford it, I'd go with an i5. If not, I wouldn't worry - the i3 will probably be good enough for now.

 

[MadOver]

You would be better off with something like this...
https://es.pcpartpicker.com/list/HCkvD8

Get a HDD for sure, new games take a lot of space these days.
Also the 1060 3Gb is a mistake, 4Gb should be the very minimum...

 

[HutchinsonJC]

"please ignore my horrible grammar"
Don't ever sell yourself short on this matter again. You did quite well.

upgrade the i3 to an i5

Don't buy a single 8GB stick of RAM unless you're quite confident you'll be buying another 8GB stick of the same RAM shortly later.
The motherboard you have chosen supports "Dual Channel"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-channel_memory_architecture

If you buy two 4GB sticks of RAM you can take advantage of the "Dual Channel" which is a bigger deal than if you got 1600MHz RAM vs 2133MHz.

Also, as an above poster mentioned, hopefully you can reuse a previous computer's Hard Drive in this new machine you're putting together. This way you can load the Operating System & games on the SSD and other misc. files like music, videos, etc on the Hard Drive. If not, you can always buy a Hard Drive later to expand storage space, but that 240GB SSD will almost definitely need a complimentary storage drive to go with it at some point.

 

[JordanMihailov]

I think it's okey but as others have said for that GPU it would be very good to use i5. I assuse it's a gaming pc so i3 is on the minimum side. i5 will guarantee you that there won't be any bottleneck.