Gaming Pc for wife

dark_jedi_ire

Hi folks,

Seems the wife is looking at some games, and is interested,, MMO kinda Stuff,
and some office/internet stuff and is looking for a PC of her own, help apprreciated, I havnt a clue about AMD stuff(only really know Intel)

1. What is your budget? €400-€500(500 is a push- 450 in total would be perfect)

2. What will be the main purpose of the computer? Gaming mostly, some internet and Office stuff

3. Do you need a copy of Windows? no Windows 7 64Bit will be installed by me

4. Can you use any parts from an old computer? No

5. Do you need a monitor? No - she is going to take over my Dell 23" 2309W

5a. If yes, what size do you need. N/A

5b. If no, what resolution is your current monitor and do you plan to upgrade in the near future? n/a

6. Do you need any of these peripherals? Cheap Keyboard and Gaming mouse(well Im going to give her my Gaming Mouse and take the new one for Myself )

7. Are you willing to try overclocking? no (unless the motherboard etc comes with Preset OC ability)

8. How can you pay? http://www.hardwareversand.de so bank transfer and if needed Credit card

9. When are you purchasing? JAN

10. If you need help building it, where are you based? No help needed

Looking for a least a 2GB GPu for her(looking at the R9 270), a I3 Minimum if I could stretch to an I5
No wifi needed, DVD Drive needed

will be ordering as soon as the non reference R9 290s start coming out next year,
4Gb Ram
Case - nothing flashy,

If AMD is cheaper then thats the Way I would go

Thanks in advance

dark_jedi_ire

Thoughts on saving some cash on the below???? this is 505 + Dellivery
Intel Core i3-4130 Box, LGA1150 101,84 €*
Mainboard
ASRock B85 Pro4, Sockel 1150, ATX 69,29
RAM
4GB-Kit G-Skill RipJaws F3-10666CL7D-4GBRH 39,89
Case
BitFenix Merc Alpha 32,93
Graphics card
MSI R9 270 GAMING 2G, AMD Radeon R9 270, 2GB DDR5 161,00 €*
Power supply
Super-Flower SF500A14A Gamer Edition 500W 48,72 €*
Harddisk
WD Blue Advanced Format 500GB, 6,4cm (2,5") SATA II 46,79 €*

BeerFear

Change the hard-drive to this

What games does she play?

EoinHef

You could go with an fx-6300, slightly cheaper than the i3 and the boards for it are cheaper aswell. Would be a saving of roughly €25.

The i3 will perform better on single/double threaded applications and the fx-6300 will perform better in multi threaded applications. So would depend on what games your playong

dark_jedi_ire

Thanks Guys

Games she is liking so far,

SWTOR (as I playing it)
Walking Dead and similar horror type games(no interest myself)
Batman
The older and New Dragon age,( she wants to play the older ones before the new one Comes out)
starcraft 2
Fallout New Vegas(and she wants to play Fallout 3) and Wants to play Halflife 2...

Pretty Much games I have played and raved about and as she is now getting the bug, but she likes similar games to me so far(
if she goes down the route of kung Fu panda`s its getting sold lol) As Im going towards BF4 on my rig, she has no interest in War FPS
kinda things, but likes FPS

the Fx6300 Looks the route to go alright,
Any ideas on graphics cards and power supplies?

Jaafa

The FX6300, any decent AM3 60 euro motherboard, a 500w corsair PSU, 270x GPU and 4-8GB of ram (ideally 8), hyper212 evo CPU cooler (only if you want to overclock later) and your good to go. The case and HDD you have there are fine.

dark_jedi_ire

Thanks Jaafa...

am going with the Fx6300 for Sure and I will possibly ask on the Motherboard to be sure,
PSU-perfect
GPU- sticking with the 270
RAM-any Particular mhz ,,. possibly going for 1600mhz ddr3 (8gig for sure)

Not overclocking so, Put might add the evo just in case

dark_jedi_ire

Motherboard are we talking ??

ASRock 970 Pro3 R2.0, AM3+, ATX
59 Euro
or the

ASUS M5A78L/USB3, Sockel AM3+, ATX
66 euro

EoinHef

Go with the ASRock, should be fine.

Just something to keep in mind, the i3 you had in the original build will match the 6300 in most current games, even beat it in some. The 6300 will only pull away in multi threaded games, which there probably will be more of with the new consoles.
The i3 is also quite a bit more power efficent.
The reason I mention this is just incase you want the machine to have an upgrade path you could go with the i3 and then when it starts to get a little long in the tooth could throw an i5/i7 into the same build and board.
With the amd build your only current option would be an fx-8xxx series cpu for an upgrade, which costs about the same as an i5, but a decent i5 should be better in most games than it.

If you dont think you'd be looking to do anything like that id stick to the 6300.

So to throw that spanner in the works so late:)

Anyway, ive a much better idea, tell her shes not getting the new pc now and your using the money to buy a GTX 780ti for your rig,power that dell of yours:)

dark_jedi_ire

Thanks EoinHef, yeh that was my original Idea, get the I3 and then upgrade it later if it was needed,

Will keep that in mind indeed,, thanks

Dont tempt me with the GTX 780 lol... lets just say the dicussions are ongoing and She had some on my gaming time over the weekend
to see if she wants to play, so am holding off for a few Weeks and she will be playing some more, then make a decision,, If its yes, well then thats, that, if no, Am going for a r9 290 in the new year,,, when they fix the Fans and noise :-)