850$ Gaming PC

[lachie2000104]

Approximate Purchase Date: Next Christmas (lol)

Budget Range: 800-850$

System Usage from Most to Least important: Gaming, video recording/rendering

Are you buying a monitor: No



Parts to Upgrade: Everything except for mouse, keyboard and monitor.

Do you need to buy O.S: No

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: www.pccasegear.com

Location: Brisbane, Queensland Australia

Parts Preferences: No preferences.

Overclocking: Maybe

SLI or Crossfire: Maybe

Your Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080

Additional Comments: Needs to be futureproof and upgrade able, plays the latest games, most future games and hard-to-run games such as arma 2/3.

And Most Importantly, Why Are You Upgrading: Because I currently use a MacBook Air for gaming and it doesn't do well.

 

[H4X3R]

Why only from that website? Let me suggest using the australian pc part picker . To reconfirm, you already have a mid tower case. I have chosen the r9 270 because you can overclock it to get the same performance as a gtx 760 and 270x.
http://au.pcpartpicker.com/p/2mctc

 

[maurelie]

Here is something for your budget

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor ($189.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Motherboard: ASRock 990FX Extreme3 ATX AM3+/AM3 Motherboard ($135.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Memory: G.Skill Sniper Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($99.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($69.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 270 2GB Video Card ($229.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Power Supply: Antec High Current Gamer 520W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($99.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NSB0 DVD/CD Writer ($25.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Total: $845.00
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-12-18 22:06 EST+1100)

 

[j19861986]

Asrock 990FX Extreme3 has problems with 8core amd cpu's
Go with 990FX prober amd 8core supported, like Asus M5A99FX Pro R2.0

 

[H4X3R]

I think he also needs an OS, make sure you include that in your suggestions.

 

[maurelie]

Well maybe he needs also Monitor, Mouse, Keyboard, Sound Card, we can only guess, since the OP's post should have looked like this

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/353572-31-build-upgrade-advice

 

[H4X3R]

Ok. I know. Sry.

 

[lachie2000104]

Sorry about that guys, I fixed up the post to the template you suggested.