Project : FX

dalewakelin

dalewakelin

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This project that im planning on doing will start at late December presumably.
Any way its just on paper for now and this is what is going to be inside it, it will cost £800 so i had better start saving. Feel free to give you suggestions, i already know i don't need a fan controller but want one.
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I may need i higher wattage psu and im not sure about the motherboard so help in those areas would be nice. The name is from the cpu and gpu so those are mandatory. It will mainly be used to replace my current pc and my workstation as im selling both and they will probably fund half of this project and the other half of funding will be from money ive saved up. It will be used to play some games but its primary use will be editing and rendering. Which in its self could help me fund this also.
 
The hardware looks alright if you're dead set on an 8150, but why the 30GB SSD and 80GB hard drive? 30GB is barely big enough to put Windows on, so I'm assuming it's for a cache? I don't even know if AMD CPUs have that kind of capability. Also, I don't see a PSU on your list, or am I just blind?
 
PapaSmurf6768 said:
The hardware looks alright if you're dead set on an 8150, but why the 30GB SSD and 80GB hard drive? 30GB is barely big enough to put Windows on, so I'm assuming it's for a cache? I don't even know if AMD CPUs have that kind of capability. Also, I don't see a PSU on your list, or am I just blind?
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I must have removed it for some reason, but it was a corsair cx600. And the drives are a bit of a mess i may need to upgrade on ssd choice. The 4 80gb hard-drives have a reason.
 
OK a 600W PSU should be fine. You're not thinking of RAIDing the hard drives are you? If you put them in RAID 0, if one fails all your data will be gone, and I think you'll have a pretty high chance of a "Generic Hard Drive" failing, and then you multiply that chance by 4. If you're going for RAID 1 or 5 or something, you might be OK, but I recommend you just get 1 high capacity, reliable drive. Or I could be completely off the mark, let me know. Also, for the SSD, I'd say 60GB is minimum if you are planning to have Windows on the SSD, and recommend 90GB or more. 30GB is more of just a caching drive then actually being used as storage.
 
Forget the FX8150, it's god awful. If you doing editing and rendering an X79 setup with a 3930K would probably be the best choice but that would be difficult to incorporate into an £800 build so it would probably be more realistic to get a 3770K on a Z77 board. Either way it's gonna be a hell of a lot faster than a Bulldozer rig.

I'm gonna see what i can magic up with £800 and i'll post my results
 
PetrolHead247 said:
Forget the FX8150, it's god awful. If you doing editing and rendering an X79 setup with a 3930K would probably be the best choice but that would be difficult to incorporate into an £800 build so it would probably be more realistic to get a 3770K on a Z77 board. Either way it's gonna be a hell of a lot faster than a Bulldozer rig.

I'm gonna see what i can magic up with £800 and i'll post my results
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You said what I didn't have the guts to say :)
 
Ok well this is just all wrong, first of all, that comes to about £500 not £800 and the parts are just all wrong.

Here is what I recommend - https://www.aria.co.uk/WishList/8MfeCd8uf06t1Wy5Q0UdhQ,,

And yes I know the FX has 8 cores and 16 threads and the 3570k only 4 of each but benchmarks show the 3570 to still be quite a bit better

Edit : If your not doing that much gaming, drop to a HD 7850 and get a 3770k
 
seumasbeathan said:
Ok well this is just all wrong, first of all, that comes to about £500 not £800 and the parts are just all wrong.

Here is what I recommend - https://www.aria.co.uk/WishList/8MfeCd8uf06t1Wy5Q0UdhQ,,

And yes I know the FX has 8 cores and 16 threads and the 3570k only 4 of each but benchmarks show the 3570 to still be quite a bit better

Edit : If your not doing that much gaming, drop to a HD 7850 and get a 3770k
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I think you've forgotten the ram and a CPU cooler, for this budget I'd go with a 3770k
 
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Here's what i got, should give you a good idea:

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Try looking on Aria too, they're one of the best (if not the best) PC store in the UK on teh interwebz
 
seumasbeathan said:
Have you not listened to any of us? Intel is a much better platform, and why get 2 7770's? Just get a 7870
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Didn't notice that it was a bundle, +1 for Intel and the 7870, you are always better off with one good gpu instead of two worse gpus
What's the point of having all these cores if you get better performance and less power consuption with an Intel cpu?
 
seumasbeathan said:
Have you not listened to any of us? Intel is a much better platform, and why get 2 7770's? Just get a 7870
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Theres only 1x 7770 and intel may be better but a cpu with 16 threads just suits my needs better. And i have taken your info on board dont worry :P
 
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dalewakelin said:
Theres only 1x 7770 and intel may be better but a cpu with 16 threads just suits my needs better. And i have taken your info on board dont worry :P
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Oh god not this old chestnut. Yes the AMD CPU may have 8 cores and 16 threads but the architecture is poor, very very poor so it doesn't perform well. The 3770K on the other hand has 4 cores and 8 threads, and the architecture actually works and works very well indeed. In every benchmark, application you name it the 3770K always performs better than the FX8150.

Comparison here
 
PetrolHead247 said:
Here's what i got, should give you a good idea:

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Try looking on Aria too, they're one of the best (if not the best) PC store in the UK on teh interwebz
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I approve of this build here, getting anything else just wouldn't be a smart move.
/end

EDIT: And I see you already have a case so rule out the 400R and upgrade the card to a 7850.
/end again.
 
PapaSmurf6768 said:
I approve of this build here, getting anything else just wouldn't be a smart move.
/end

EDIT: And I see you already have a case so rule out the 400R and upgrade the card to a 7850.
/end again.
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Depends what case he has. If he has a crap one with limited airflow and space inside he'll want a new one, if it's good then yeah no need for a new case. If so i'd actually get a GTX 570, it's cheaper and faster than a 7850 but just consumes a bit more power
 
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