Second build I have made and I think this will appeal to those who want a lot under a restrictive budget or don't have a large one. This build should be able to do some 1440p games in newer titles as long as the details are turned down. With that being said 1080p should not be as much of a problem in fact you'll be pretty solid. Before I start rambling on I’ll go into the parts list and justification. I decided to increase the budget to between $600- $650 as this allows for a little more power to be drawn. If you want to keep the price down though without sacrificing too much power, switch the cpu out for a fx-6300 and don't buy the cryorig h7 cooler. That should bring the total price to around $600. Also check out the other $650 build I made that uses an intel processor instead vs an AMD processor. The link is at the bottom.
• CPU: AMD FX-8320: The AMD FX-8320 is a solid processor and gives a good price to performance. Before complaints show up and the fan wars begin, no, it’s not as powerful as an i5 but for slightly over $100 this at least in my opinion is a good deal. Also because of the eight cores it can handle content creation and some game streaming if you are in to that. Overall the processor is solid and works fine. There should not be any bottlenecks and the cooler and mobo should allow for an overclock of at least 4ghz.
• CPU Cooler: Cryorig H7: Personally my favorite air cooler but I am not going to be bias about it just because it is my favorite. When i decided to choose a cooler it was between this or the cooler master hyper 212 evo. The Cryorig H7 actually performs better than the 212 EVO. That really sums it up. It performs better and looks better to the eye imo.
• Motherboard: ASRock 970A-G/3.1: This Asrock board looks new but should allow for a good overclock. . It supports all the hardware in the build and has a popular color scheme of black and red. At least my favorite part of this board is the 8+2 power phase design and the 4 Chassis fan headers along with 2 cpu fan headers. I don't see too many motherboards at this price point or at even higher price points have this many fan Chassis fan headers. Besides these features everything else looks good. It comes with some features only on asrock boards and usb type c and 3.1 on the rear ports.
• Memory: GeIL EVO Veloce Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 : This ram should be a solid choice. The mobo natively supports 1333 ram natively so the theses ram sticks will tone down to that speed. However ram speed does not really make to much of a difference in gaming. It may be between a few frames or fractions of a frame. Anyways its ram does what is supposed to do and gets the job done, can’t ask for too much more after that. It comes in red which will match the motherboard. It was rated mostly postive by buyers on newegg so I think that partially speaks some of the story. But when it comes down to it, its just ram. If it works, it works.
• Storage: Segate Barracuda 1TB 7200RPM: Simple and straight 1tb of hdd space. Runs at 7200rpm and can hold all your files. It’s not as slow as 5400rpm (I know firsthand so don’t ask) but it is not ssd fast. Load times are still there in battlefield but should not be too long but that also depends on your network connection. Essentially, just like ram it gets the job done. For an upgrade however if you have a little more money to spend either get a better gpu which is like an $80 stretch but you can also get an ssd. I would get 256gb but 120 will work as well.
• Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 380X 4GB NITRO: This is the power house of the build. The r9 380x is a beast of gpu and can handle some 1440p gaming. However, because the AMD cpu is not the greatest for gaming and its performance is not as high as it could be with an intel i5 or i7 so the details cannot be maxed. So do not take this the wrong way the fx 8320 is good and should be perfectly fine paired with the R9 380x. It should be perfectly feasible to get 30+ fps at 1440p with some settings tweaks. On another note though 1080p should be a breeze and any game should be playable with exceptions to the highest demanding ones. In other words, even though there are 4gb of vram do not try to push max details in demanding games it won’t work.
• Case: Fractal Design FD-CA-CORE-3300-BL ATX Mid Tower Case : This case has room in the back for cable management and has a vented side panels for some air to get to the gpu and cpu. Besides that, airflow looks great and should be decent and not as hard to work in compared to other cases in the price category. Also for about $40-$50 this case is very competitive. Also you get some external drive bays in case you want to install an optical drive or something. A cool feature that helps with airflow is the vertical drive mounting location. This is not the ideal way to mount storage devices but it does work. Because the hard dive cages are not in the way of the front fan mounts it allows for more air to get through. Also this case comes with ssd mounts if there is a future plan to get one.
• Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze: For the psu I needed something with at least 500w to hold all the hardware in the build. This psu can handle the r9 380x and still spare about another 100w. Even though I really wanted a semi modular psu this should do and because there is some cable management room in the back it should make working with this easier. Also another benefit is the 80+ bronze certification. I can't explain it but I am automatically attracted to power supplies with at least 80+ rating. It is sort of like a requirement imo. But anyways this psu will get the job done and is rated well. There may be room to overclock but I am not too sure about that. Perhaps a 600w would be better in that case but there should be some headroom in here for it anyways.
$650 intel gaming build: http://pcpartpicker.com/guide/4pWG3C/650-gaming-pc
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Here is the link for the build:
http://pcpartpicker.com/guide/jWj48d/awesome-600-650-build-some-1440p-and-definetly-1080p
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