I this a Beast of a Machine?

[DovyNorris]

It's on a massive discount and the specs look good. What do you think? http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/141607671645

 

[anti-duck]

I'd say it's not worth it, an FX 6300 with a GTX 960 is a good combo, but you're paying a bit of a premium for 16gb of RAM that you most likely won't even need, the PSU is absolute junk, you need to get your own OS and only 120gb of storage?

 

[Wolfshadw]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor (£79.19 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 Micro ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£39.59 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Kingston Fury Red Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£74.31 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£40.63 @ CCL Computers)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 2GB Video Card (£148.00 @ Aria PC)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-14 DVD/CD Writer (£9.96 @ Aria PC)
Other: AeroCool Cyclops Red/Black (£35.49)
Other: Aerocool Templarius Imperator 850W 80+ (£81.58)
Total: £508.75
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-06-21 13:15 BST+0100

I wouldn't consider £33 a "massive" discount and there's no OS included.

-Wolf sends

 

[DovyNorris]

It's more of a £325 discount

 

[Archgaull]

This has a better CPU, PSU, and HDD for £25 more. Arguable the GPU can be better.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£141.26 @ CCL Computers)
Motherboard: MSI H97 PC MATE ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£61.16 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£39.99 @ Dabs)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£37.44 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 280 3GB Double Dissipation Video Card (£149.98 @ CCL Computers)
Case: Corsair SPEC-01 RED ATX Mid Tower Case (£41.94 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply (£33.78 @ Aria PC)
Total: £505.55
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-06-21 13:24 BST+0100

 

[Wolfshadw]

It's more of a £325 discount

You missed my point. They're offering that system for £475.99 and claiming a £328.43 (40%) discount. They're saying the total cost of the build before discount is £804.42

If you'll look at the build I provided, it's the exact same specifications (identical parts when possible) and the cost was only £508.57

They say you're getting a £328.43 discount. What I've shown you is that it's only about £33.

-Wolf sends

 

[DovyNorris]

Yeah, I decided to order parts separately and make myself a mid-high range PC which will be cheaper and better than pretty built

 

[HEXiT]

dunno about a beast of a machine but it sure is ugly 😛 lol...