Are these parts compatible?

[jordan9080]

Hi I just got into PC gaming and I'm not sure on what parts are compatible and what parts aren't. Here is my setup:

CPU:AMD Athlon X4 740 Trinity Quad-Core 3.2GHz Socket FM2 65W Desktop Processor AD740XOKHJBOX

Motherboard:GIGABYTE GA-F2A55M-DS2 FM2 AMD A55 (Hudson D2) Micro ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS

Memory:G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model F3-10666CL8D-4GBRM

Storage: Western Digital WD Blue WD5000AAKX 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive - OEM

Video Card:MSI AMD Radeon HD 6450 2GB DDR3 VGA/DVI/HDMI Low Profile PCI-Express Video Card R6450-2GD3H/LP

Case: ZALMAN ZM-T2 Black Steel / Plastic MicroATX Mini Tower Computer Case

Power Supply: Antec VP-450 450W ATX 12V v2.3 Power Supply - Intel Haswell Fully Compatible

Optical Drive:Sony AD-7280S-0B 24x SATA Internal DVD+/-RW Drive (Black)

 

[jimmyjammywho]

Firstly what is your budget for a pc

 

[LostAlone]

The parts are compatible - Computers are very interchangeable these days. As long as you match up the CPU socket with the motherboard socket you are generally good to go. You almost have to go out of your way to buy non-matching parts.

A better question is this - Which of these parts do you already own, and what do you want your system to do? It feels to me that with the very old and very out of date graphics card, but the new motherboard and CPU that you are upgrading part of your system and want to know that the old stuff will still work. Well, yes. It will. But depending on what your older system is, what you want to do and how much you are trying to spend you may well get better performance through another route. Particularly if you want to play games then almost no games are CPU limited, while just about all of them are graphics card limited and you would much much better off getting a new graphics card than a new CPU.

 

[geofelt]

As far as I can tell, your parts are compatible.
But... this is not a gaming pc. The HD6450 card is no better than intel integrated graphics. It is the graphics card that is the main engine of graphics.

From the cpu point of view, the X4 750 used to be the best budget cpu, but no more.
Look at the G3258.
Here is an older post I made on the subject of a budget gamer:


------------------------------ budget build ---------------------------
For a budget build, I like to recommend that one builds for future expandability.
That means paying a bit more up front for some parts that allow for an easier future upgrade.
Let me start where you might not expect:
1. Buy a good 620w psu. Such a unit will run any future graphics card.
I would normally suggest Seasonic 620w:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
But this EVGA 600w unit is going for a very good price:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
2. Buy a Z97 based motherboard. Z97 will allow you to install a overclockable cpu and even offer a future 14nm broadwell upgrade.
You should find one for under $100.
Here is a M-ATX : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157529
3. I suggest a G3258. It is a overclockable dual core at a budget price of about $75.
Here is what it can do: http://techreport.com/review/26735/overclocking-intel-p...
In time, you can upgrade to any cpu that you want and market the G3258.
4. The intel stock cooler will do the job up to a point. But, I suggest a $30 tower type cooler like the cm hyper212 with a 120mm fan. It will cool better and be quieter under load.
5. For ram, speed is not important. Buy a 8gb kit of 2 x 4gb DDR3 1.5v ram.
If you will be using the integrated graphics, I suggest faster ram. It improves the performance. 1866 is good. You will get a WEI of 6.4.
6. Cases are a personal thing. Buy one you love. Most will do the job for <$50.
It would be hard to beat $34 delivered for this Antec GX500 :
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
7. The graphics card is the most important component for gaming. My usual rule of thumb is to budget 2x the cpu cost for the graphics card. I like the GTX750ti and EVGA as a brand.
Here is a superclock version:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
You could go stronger in the video card if your budget permits and your games need it.
On the other hand, you could build using the integrated graphics and see how you do.
By deferring on the graphics card, you will get a better idea of what you really need.
Integrated is fine for sims, but not fast action games.
8. Lastly, I will never build again without a SSD for the "C" drive. It makes everything you do so much quicker. 120gb will hold the OS and a handful of games. With 240gb you may never need a hard drive at all. Defer on a hard drive until your ssd approaches 90% full.

-------------good luck------------

 

[jimmyjammywho]

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/8YxRwP the 4 cores will help in games and the graphics card is good aswell

 

[LostAlone]

I would absolutely lean more towards JimmyJammyWho's build than Geofelts.

--This bit is more for then than you, sorry OP--

I know there has been a lot of a fluster around around the G3258, but I for one am not buying into the hype. I've seen a lot of people shouting on these forums about how every single budget system should be using a G3258 instead of anything else ever, and on paper I can see sort of why people would say that. It's a very aggressively priced CPU. But that's about it. If the G3450 wasn't the best for the money then the G3258 isn't either. It's also probably a bad idea to advise a guy who doesn't know for sure which parts are compatible with each other to buy something on the strength of it's overclocking ability. Seriously, don't do that. If it's not a good value proposition at stock values then it's not a good value proposition.

You remember way back when, when AMD sold a lot of tri-cored chips that on some of them you could unlock the fourth core on? Well that's pretty similar to this. If an old Athlon x3 was only worth buying on the chance you could get a free core (and a free twenty bucks) then it wasn't worth buying for most people, because you simply couldn't be certain of what you were buying. When you OC a chip you could get a free extra Ghz or you could get nothing. You may as well tell the guy to take his CPU budget and put it all on black. He might get a superb cpu for very little money. Or he might get an underwhelming Pentium who's only significant virtue is that it's cheap.

Don't tell people who don't know better that overclocking is the best way to buy a PC. When you have a limited budget for a PC, the last thing you should be doing is messing with settings that can turn that small pile of cash you saved up into a pile of useless silicon slag.

 

[jordan9080]

Thanks guys after reading about the Pentium and how it can be overclocked on a budget motherboard I have decided to use this build for my budget gaming PC. http://pcpartpicker.com/p/CzbRwP
The build I was using before was found on YouTube and I didn't realized it wasn't good enough to run any game at 1080p.

 

[geofelt]

Looks good to me.

 

[jimmyjammywho]

The only issue i can see with your build is most budget haswell boards need to have the bios flashed to accept the new g3258 pentium, either check with the supplier whether it can take on the pentium g3258 or get a cheap haswell cpu off ebay and flash your bios then install the pentium, another solution could be to buy the new cheap z97 boards designed for the pentium g3258 eg the asrock z97 anniversary.

 

[geofelt]

There is nothing special about the G3258 compared to the other G chips except the ability to overclock.
A G3258 should be able to run in any 1150 motherboard so it could do the flash to support overclocking itself. No need to borrow a different supported chip.
Most fresh stock of motherboards will have the latest bios anyway.