My First Custom PC

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KangasaurusX

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Hey I am planning to build my first custom gaming PC in May with my friend who has some experience with building PCs. I have watched videos and read walkthroughs on how to build your own your own PCs, so the construction I am not to bothered about. I have planned out everything and chosen all the parts, but I was just wondering if all the parts are compatible with each other. I also would like to know how well it will run games as I will want to play first person shooters etc on it, such as battlefield 3.
Here are the parts:
Case - Fractal Design Core 1000

Graphics Card - MSI HD7850 Twin Frozr OC AMD/ATI Graphics Card - 2GB

CPU - Intel Pentium G850, Socket 1155, Dual Core, 2.90GHz

PSU - Corsair Builder Series CX430 V2 430W ATX 2.3 (CMPSU-430CXV2)

RAM - INTEGRAL PC3-10600 DDR3 PC Memory - 8GB DIMM RAM

HDD - 500GB Seagate ST500DM002 Barracuda SATA 6Gb/s, 7200rpm

MoBo - MSI H61M-P31 (G3) Motherboard

DVD Drive - 24x DVDRW from Liteon IHAS124-04 OEM Black SATA

Monitor - Asus VS247H-P 24-Inch Full-HD LED Monitor

Keyboard - CYBORG V5 Gaming Keyboard

Mouse - Logitech G400 Optical Gaming Mouse

Thanks :D
 
PSU - Would better go for 500W.
Mobo - You could probably find B75 chipset with similar price.
RAM - Could get a faster RAM if you go for B75 chipset.

If you are going to build in May, come back later, there could be changes within 3 months
 
I suppose but in three months that are during the spring I wouldn't have thought there would be any major changes computing market
 
If you've got a money constraint, buy a cheap mouse and keyboard and use those until you can save some more. Do NOT cheap out on your PSU. You've chosen a good quality unit but it doesn't have enough power for a 7850. I'd advise at least a CX500 and probably CX600 if you can afford it. Also see if you can find some faster RAM. Preferably 1333MHz. The price hike will be worth it, even thought there isn't much of one.
 
If you are gonna be gaming, I would recommend a different motherboard, a quad core processor, 1600 mhz ram, 7870 gpu, cx600 psu
 
johnb35 said:
If you are gonna be gaming, I would recommend a different motherboard, a quad core processor, 1600 mhz ram, 7870 gpu, cx600 psu
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I would agree with this. Judging by the choice on some of the parts I assumed he was constrained for money. However if you've got the cash follow this advise.
 
Jiniix said:
It has plenty power.
A system with i7-3960X, 16GB 1866 and a 7850 use around 293 watts.
Souce: Legitreviews
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Doesn't matter, you don't want 430 watt psu running that system at near full load. The psu will last longer if its only running near 70% load. Plus your not leaving enough room for upgrades.
 
ye i do have a bit of a money constraint as I would like to get as good a PC as possible for ~£700 though I could possible bring it up to £800
 
£800 will get you a pretty decent PC. If you like (as I live in the UK), I can spec you one?
 
OK I can't really recommend any good monitors or mice or keyboards as I don't know about those really, but I'll leave some money to spare for them.
 
I am pretty happy with the monitor, keyboard and mouse i selected, but they all come to a total of £179, so if you can spec a computer for ~£621 that would be much appreciated
 
Got one here for £642.

Intel Core i5 3570K Quad-Core CPU http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/...ncorei3,i5andi71155socket/bx80637i53570k.html

Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/motherboards/intel1155z77chipset/ga-z77x-d3h.html

8GB RipJaws-X 1600MHz http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/...dr3-pc3-12800/1600mhz/f3-12800cl9d-8gbxl.html

Corsair CX 600 PSU http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/powersupplies/cp-9020048-uk.html

Seagate Barracuda 1TB HDD http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/harddrives-internal/sata1tbto1.5tb/st1000dm003.html

MSI Radeon HD 7850 2GB http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/...aphicscards/amdhd7850series/r7850-2gd5oc.html

Zalman Z11 Plus http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/cases/cases/z11p.html

Do you need an OS too? If you do, that will also really eat into your budget... :(
 
Depends how much you anticipate to have by then. New hardware may well be out by June, so we'd have to a look then and see what you can get.
 
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