Are these compatible with eachother & will they play & record high quality games?

[chrisharvz]

On a budget and been trying to put it down as much as I can, anymore advice would be great.
Im looking to play & record new release games on either maximum or high quality.
Is this a good setup? Dont want to spend more than £1000 with including 2 monitors

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/2zyhX

 

[Vic 40]

Why do you need two monitors?
Don't you have an old one you can use for a second screen?

 

[chrisharvz]

i've been using my parents tv as a monitor for my xbox 😛 want something that will connect to my xbox & tv at the same time 😛

 

[chrisharvz]

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/2zY4B

Anyone?
Will this work & is there anything im over doing?

 

[Vic 40]

I was still looking....

How about this?

PCPartPicker part list

CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core Processor (£137.00 @ Ebuyer)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£23.90 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-990XA-UD3 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£80.77 @ Dabs)
Memory: Kingston HyperX 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£60.83 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£54.00 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£42.00 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 770 2GB Video Card (£239.90 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Antec Three Hundred Two ATX Mid Tower Case (£54.99 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 850W 80+ Silver Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£95.82 @ Scan.co.uk)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8 (OEM) (64-bit) (£78.50 @ Ebuyer)
Monitor: LG 23EA63V-P 23.0" Monitor (£123.85 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £991.56
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-01-12 11:30 GMT+0000)

A different way.

For if you are really into overclocking,
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/2zYRB
this motherboard has 2 x16pcie lanes,with the other when placing two cards they both go to x8.
Just a better cooler.
The FX 8320 instead of the FX 8350,to save some money.

With these systems you at least can get a good monitor in under budget.It has dvi and hdmi,so you should be able to connect xbox and pc at the same time.

I see that you've already started a new thread so i won't answer again here.It's all double work.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1976270/decent-build.html

 

[jb6684]

Nice choices' VIC40........

- That sets him up proper for Dual GPU's in future (PSU is plenty big and motherboard is proper to support....)
- Nice bit oh cooler in the EVO for some OCing too....
- GTX 770 plays just about any game on higher settings....

I'm not a big convert to SSD's yet so I might skip it and get a bigger/better monitor..... BUT, that's just my preference.

 

[Vic 40]

Nice choices' VIC40........

Thanks!😀

I thought so too.

The ts has already started another thread so i get the feeling i wasted my time.

 

[jb6684]

@VIC20....

Yeah, hate it when folks are so impatient they think running 2 or 3 threads will speed 'em up......

 

[Vic 40]

@VIC

Yeah, hate it when folks are so impatient they think running 2 or 3 threads will speed 'em up......

Yeah,me too.

It is what it is in the end,but won't spend more time on it.

 

[chrisharvz]

Nah dw I'm still looking and taking all these into consideration just trying to find the best solution since it's so much money 😛 I do really like the setup! I was under the impression that Intel would be better than AMD in terms of
Gaming & recording, is that true? However if that setup works for all my needs I see no other reason but to go for it 😛
Also is this setup compatible for dual HD monitors & is the monitor on the list compatible for it also?
Thanks 😀

 

[chrisharvz]

bump - Thinking of buying these components tonight, will AMD be good enough for me playing & recording in HD? & will I be able to use dual monitors with this setup? If so, what monitors would be best (I do have a budget of £250 for monitors... so around £125 each if possible!)
Thanks!

 

[Vic 40]

bump - Thinking of buying these components tonight,

When spending money like that you should be more patient.

I found this thread and it seems i'm not entirely wright (to me it's about budget too),
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1715591/processor-gaming-recording-amd-8350-intel.html
it seems that intel probably is better for what you want with your pc.

So i made another list and you will be a little over budget than,
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/2AiAj

I still think that the monitor is a good choice if you want nice colors too (it's an ips panel),with overdrive on it should be fast enough for games as well.

The choice is yours.

 

[chrisharvz]

Ahh thanks! it's a tough one when it comes to AMD vs Intel :/ yeah I'll defo have to sleep on it! I'm pretty happy with the rest've the build, just a couple of things I have to look into before I fully go for buying everything!

 

[Vic 40]

It's indeed tough.
In the end it's probably just be about a few fps differnce.

This is something i found about bf4,
http://pclab.pl/zdjecia/artykuly/chaostheory/2013/10/bf4_beta/charts/bf4_cpu_geforce.png
but you just have to wait and see if you get your FX 8350 (if you would get it) to those overclocks.It might just need something better than a hyper 212 evo for that and it always depends on the chip you get.Some just go higher than others.

 

[chrisharvz]

Ahh that's a useful link! Thanks! Yeah I think I'm gunna go for the i5 4770k, purely for price & performance reasons, but the rest of the setup I think will work well! 😀
In getting rid of the windows 8 as well as my friends got a copy of windows 7 I can use.. So I'm adding a cheap optical drive so I can install it, gives me a little extra money to spend on perhaps better monitors as I'm still not 100% on them! As well, does my graphics card prevent me from having dual monitors? I read a post not long back about how some cards don't support dual hd monitors?
Thanks 😀