Building a PC

Earth

Earth

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Hoping to build a PC capable of playing a heavily modded Fallout New Vegas (and with that games like Fallout, Fallout 2, Wasteland 2, Pillars of Eternity stuff like that).

People on PC Part Picker keep suggesting new parts so if you guys could just say whether or not these will be capable let me know. If you want to suggest other builds that's cool, but I am trying to keep it on a budget of $850 (about £600) or less.

Here are the components at the moment:

CPU: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/intel-cpu-bx80646i54460

Motherboard: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-motherboard-h81mp33

Memory: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/kingston-memory-hx318c10fbk28

Storage: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/seagate-internal-hard-drive-st1000dm003

Video Card: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/evga-video-card-02gp42951kr

Case: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/thermaltake-case-ca1b300m1nn00

Power Supply: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/evga-power-supply-100w10500kr

Operating System: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/microsoft-os-wn700615
 
This seems like a pretty reasonable build, it will play those games no problem. The only things i would reconsider is picking up 1 8gb ram stick (if it's cheaper, dual memory is better if you have an igpu, for dgpu it doesn't matter as much), or maybe even two 8gb sticks, because they will only become more expensive from now on, as ddr4 is growing in market share. And make sure that your motherboard supports your ram, as the one you want to buy lists ram speeds of DDR3-1066 / 1333 / 1600, while the ram you want to buy is 1866. Also, don't cheap out on psu, if possible go for at least tier 3 psu.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html

It will save you energy, be better for your pc and will not burn out in a year.

If your case only has on fan in the back, in the future you might consider putting one in the front that blows into the case, so as to not have negetive air pressure and better airflow.
 
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AskWazzup said:
What's wrong with micro atx?
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Nothing really, just less options for upgrades in the future. Less sata slots, can't go above 16gb ram, no sli/crossfire support. But it entirely depends on his needs and budget, obviously.

Just wanted to point out that it was a micro-ATX.

Earth said:
They're a little pricier but I've switched up the motherboard and the PSU. See what you think.

Funnily enough this motherboard is actually more compatible with the CPU and case than the last rig.

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-motherboard-z97gaming5

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/corsair-power-supply-cx600m

Just trying to make sure that whatever I purchase now won't be an issue later. I don't want to spend money only to have to spend more money within a year.
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I recently purchased a Z170A Krait Gaming. It was a pain in the ass to install Win 7 from a usb on it. And it boots slower than my previous 6+ year old pc (I've read that this can be due to my GTX 970, however). And I didn't consider that modern mb's don't have IDE slots, so I couldn't connect my dvd-reader/writer. But other than that, I'm very happy with it. MSI make great cards from what I can tell.
 
Earth said:
They're a little pricier but I've switched up the motherboard and the PSU. See what you think.

Funnily enough this motherboard is actually more compatible with the CPU and case than the last rig.

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-motherboard-z97gaming5

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/corsair-power-supply-cx600m

Just trying to make sure that whatever I purchase now won't be an issue later. I don't want to spend money only to have to spend more money within a year.
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The motherboard is good, but i think it's meant for overclocking and multi-gpu setup, so unless you plan to upgrade to an i5-4690k, or i7-4790k in the future, this would be a bit of a waste/overkill for your current configuration.

As for the psu, if you can get get this psu for the listed price (currently 59$), i'd go with that:

http://www.amazon.com/Seasonic-S12II-620-BRONZE-SS-620GB /dp/B003BIEOCI/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1458322067&sr=8-2&keywords=S12-II

The current corsair cx brand is not very well recieved it seems.

Actually, now that i think about it, my pc that i gave away to my brother has a very similar cpu (4430) to the one you want to buy, it's just clocked a bit lower :).
 
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If you can swing the extra 50 dollars or so, I'd go with the evga gtx 960 sc 2gb with the acx cooler

it seems to benchmark like a 770 or slightly better in some games

from personal experience I'd say it will do pretty much every recent game that actually utilizes the gpu well in 1080p with med/high settings. I was so happy with mine that I bought a second one a year later and put them in SLI for an incredibly cheap upgrade.

the special cooler makes pretty much no noise and works wonders

On the mobo, I have the previous model MSI gaming z97 before the one mentioned above.
It would definitely be overkill for a single gpu setup that you don't intend to OC, but it works very well in my SLI setup with a 4790k.

If you aren't planning to upgrade it heavily or overclock in the future you can get by with something cheaper.
 
they are probably referring to the 128bit memory bus on these cards, vs say the 256bit bus on the 970.

You can think of it as akin to the width of the pipe the memory will travel through, so just like with water you can push a much greater volume through a larger pipe in the same amount of time. some people like to think of it like lanes on a freeway, with more lanes allowing more cars.

it can have also limit the physical number of memory chips on the card.

For games that have incredibly large high quality textures, or if you are running 4k resolution I would expect that the performance drops off a bit in frames per second, but for the bulk of games it's not much of an issue as they included some features in the gpu to mitigate it and not too many games are running insanely large textures by default.

I think the price for that card is in the 180 usd range here.
 
I have two questions for you. Are you willing to spend $50-$70 USD more, and are you willing to wait a few more months? If yes to both, wait for Pascal/Polaris, then get whatever card from that you can fit into a $920 budget. If yes to the first but no to the second, get an R9 390. If no to the first but yes to the second, wait for Pascal/Polaris and then get a 390 or something. They'll most likely drop in price a little once the new cards come out.
 
I'll think about it, but honestly I think now is better than later. I've only been talking about getting a rig for 3+ years.
 
AskWazzup said:
What's wrong with micro atx?
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Unless you have baby hands the mircro atx is a killer.. I was actually blleding the last time i changed my CPU/Motherboard and when i buy my new stuff later this week there is no way in hell i will ever go micro again :P
 
Makta said:
Unless you have baby hands the mircro atx is a killer.. I was actually blleding the last time i changed my CPU/Motherboard and when i buy my new stuff later this week there is no way in hell i will ever go micro again :P
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Do you mean mini atx? Micro is much better to install, because you have much more headroom while cramming the thing in a case (standart atx case):

atx-microatx-mini-itx.jpg


The standart atx is harder to install imho.
 
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