paulstung
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Good afternoon people, how you all doing? I've been away for a bit with family stuff, but I'm slowly getting some time back to myself, and I'm thinking about building a basic bedroom rig, mainly for media use, like Youtube/movies, all that usual time wasting stuff people used to do on TV's.
My budget is around £350/£400 and preferably ITX, I don't need an Os, peripherals, or a monitor, I've got all that knocking about. I'll be using Overclockers Uk, so all items ideally would be in stock, also I should have mentioned the possibility of upgrading my main rig, to the green team, so I would prefer this to be able to be upgraded in line with that, to stream games to the bedroom, so it does need to be not high end but also not low end.
So far my list looks as follows,
MSI A88XI AC V2 AMD A88X (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard
AMD A6-6400K 3.90GHz (Socket FM2) APU Richland Dual Core / AMD A6-7400K ( Ebuyer, free delivery and only £10 more )
HyperX Beast 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel
Be Quiet SFX Power 2 300W '80 Plus Bronze' SFX Power Supply
Samsung 250GB 850 EVO SSD
All wrapped up in a Raijintek Metis - Windowed - Black Mini ITX Case
As far as cooling goes it is probably going to be something low profile.
I think the CPU, and motherboard are compatible, I have never dealt with AMD before, and have literally only started parts sourcing in the last half and hour, this is just a starting point. As far as ram, am I right in thinking for APU's go for the fastest, the motherboard will support?
Thanks guys...
My budget is around £350/£400 and preferably ITX, I don't need an Os, peripherals, or a monitor, I've got all that knocking about. I'll be using Overclockers Uk, so all items ideally would be in stock, also I should have mentioned the possibility of upgrading my main rig, to the green team, so I would prefer this to be able to be upgraded in line with that, to stream games to the bedroom, so it does need to be not high end but also not low end.
So far my list looks as follows,
MSI A88XI AC V2 AMD A88X (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard
AMD A6-6400K 3.90GHz (Socket FM2) APU Richland Dual Core / AMD A6-7400K ( Ebuyer, free delivery and only £10 more )
HyperX Beast 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel
Be Quiet SFX Power 2 300W '80 Plus Bronze' SFX Power Supply
Samsung 250GB 850 EVO SSD
All wrapped up in a Raijintek Metis - Windowed - Black Mini ITX Case
As far as cooling goes it is probably going to be something low profile.
I think the CPU, and motherboard are compatible, I have never dealt with AMD before, and have literally only started parts sourcing in the last half and hour, this is just a starting point. As far as ram, am I right in thinking for APU's go for the fastest, the motherboard will support?
Thanks guys...
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