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JRPGfan on 24 June 2016
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oodles2do said:
JRPGfan said:

My advice:

1) I would grab a small SSD for windows (60-100gb) just the cheapest you can find (this is your windows drive).
Then a regular or hybrid drive at 500gb-1tb (this is where you keep all your installed games on ect).

2) Id probably save a few $ and get a i5-6400/i5-6500 instead.

3) I wouldnt buy super expensive ram, get the cheapest ones rated at the values you need.
If you dont need 2666mhz dont buy them. The gain in performance is so damn small, and sometimes the differnce in ram prices are pretty big.

4) Sound card? why? the onboard ones usually so good you wont be able to spot any differnce between them and the discrete sound cards you can buy for pci. Its a waste of money imo.


5) Make sure the power supply is a high rated one, its one of those components you really shouldnt be cheap on.

6) Its convient the RX 480 is soon out, Id get one of those to go with this PC your building.
Their supposed to be really good value.

 

vivster said:

DDR4 is useless too.

 

OK, taking on board what you've both said, the changes I've made are:

Switch to a cheaper motherboard and stick with DDR3 RAM,

Switch to 120gb SSD (I've got a 3TB external too already).

 

I won't bother with a GPU for a long time if ever, and I shouldn't have included the soundcard here, it's the onboard option anyway, can't take it off.

 

What do you guys think about the power supply?

At the moment it's a Corsair 550W to future proof if I do ever decide to put a modest GPU in, is that overkill too?

With the current setup 350W is fine, but I assume adding any GPU would push that over, 450W is also an option.

Yes 550watts is enough.

With that you can easily run your CPU and a GPU like the RX 480, which would make it a very capable gameing pc.

DDR4 isnt really that big of a thing (for gameing atleast).

120gb is more than plenty for windows, just make it a point to always install games on your other HDD, ei makes "games" folder and install things there.

 

 

"I won't bother with a GPU for a long time if ever"

Downgrade your CPU (like to a i5-6400) / motherboard or ram costs abit and get a graphics card.

Haveing the option to play games on your PC is a nice added bonus ontop of just haveing a pc.

In like 5days the RX 480 is launching I think, should consider adding in one of those.