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[Chazore]

JEMC said:

Chazore said:
Ok so I kinda borked my PC last night when I tried the EZ wizard to adjust my DRAM on my bios, needless to say my rig wouldn't start up and kept shutting down =B. In the end I had a US friend who's retired from the military and now spends his time building rigs for friends and folk in general with his free time, he's helped me construct a good build for those new to PC gaming with two builds in total, one in GBP and the other in USD:

GBP: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/Xy4qCJ
USD:http://pcpartpicker.com/p/HTJ8pg

Both just about go over the £$400 limit but it's what it is for entry level, the builds you guys have so far could easily count for entry/mid level and I wouldn't think we need to create enthusiast builds just yet (don't wanna scare off newbs to high price points =P).

I'll post the specs of your build to make it easier to see:

 

Component	Selection	UK		US
		Price	Where	Price	Where
CPU	AMD Athlon II X4 640 3.0GHz Quad-Core Processor
CPU Cooler	CRYORIG H7 49.0 CFM CPU Cooler	£24.99	Ebuyer	$34.50	Newegg
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 Micro ATX AM3+ Motherboard	£37.98	Ebuyer	$41.98	Newegg
Memory	Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory	£58.36	Amazon UK	$36.99	Amazon
Storage	Seagate Constellation ES.3 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive	£68.14	Amazon UK	$85.99	Amazon
Video Card	EVGA GeForce GTX 960 2GB SuperSC ACX 2.0+ Video Card	£158.99	Ebuyer	$194.99	SuperBiiz
Case	Fractal Design Core 1000 USB 3.0 MicroATX Mid Tower Case	£29.64	CCL Computers	$31.89	Newegg
Power Supply	Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply	£59.87	Aria PC	$44.99	Newegg
	Total:	£437.97		$471.33

The build doesn't look bad, but it lacks several parts that we agreed to include liek keyboard & mouse and the OS. And the CPU doesn't have a price.

Also, I know you have problems with your own build, but asking for help? I'm disappointed .

Oooh yeah I still need them at that lol, I'll likely include my Hades mechanical KB since it;s not that expensive and it's a gaming KB at that and the Rock brand series of mouse has decent DPi settings and the required buttons for a gaming mouse with either of them not costing that much either. There is always that other build you could transfer into GBP =P. I was going to ask if you could table it for me and you already read my mind XD.

Oh me I'm pretty stupid when it coems to asking for help lol, I kepty pushing on thinking I could find a resolve and until I actually borked my entire rig did I call for help lol, luckily I got it back to normal and I;m using my regular 8gb kit while I run some mem scan tests on the 16gb kit later on tonight and hand the sticks over to a PC shop I know of tomorrow to have it tested on their benches to see if it's my mobo, if it is my mobo then I can simply save the kit for another future build, if a stick is dead then I'll go for a refund and buy a different kit at the same Mhz as my 8gb one.

Also if anyone wants to hit me up on Skype just msg me on here or any of those clients listed, I do have a headset as well =P.