Joel Hudson :
So can you tell me what the safest bet for around 425 is because that is my main budget and Im trying not to break my bank. Also does any Hard drive work for any mother board,
Any SATA HDD will work with any motherboard that have a spare SATA port for it. If you already have HDDs you can reuse then reuse them with my build, as that will give you the best price/performance.
Now if you want it to be ~$425 and you want it now:
PCPartPicker part list /
Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: Intel Pentium G4560 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor ($69.99 @ B&H)
Motherboard: ASRock B250M-HDV Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($66.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Kingston FURY 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($50.83 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($49.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: MSI Radeon RX 460 2GB Video Card ($99.99 @ Amazon)
Case: DIYPC Ranger-R4-R ATX Mid Tower Case ($25.98 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair CXM 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($32.99 @ Newegg)
Base Total, after promo code & shipping: $426.75
Mail-in Rebates: -$30.00
Total: $396.75
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-03-08 06:23 EST-0500
This will be a big downgrade from the prior build, but all those Avexir RAM, whether it's the 1x8GB Blue LED on my build or 2x4GB red LED on James build, come with a notice that they'll ship in 1-4 weeks and that G4560 are all sold out everywhere else but B&H (I think Amazon still have the G4560 but price it at G4600 level).
This Kingston (HyperX) Fury 8GB DDR4 2400 CL15 has the part number: HX424C15FB
2/8. Do note the number 2 for when you have the budget for the 2nd stick as that denote the difference between the Single Rank module with the Dual Rank one; which will have an effect on compatibility if you pick the wrong one for a future upgrade. And no, at this performance level, you do not need to worry about dual-channel vs single-channel memory bandwidth. Either the CPU or the GPU will be the bottleneck long before memory bandwidth become an issue.
RX460, this is the main culprit for the downgrade performance. But why RX460 and not GTX1050?
1st> What everybody know. Better DX12 performance. DX12 has a greater effect on lower-end CPU so it's the better pick when paired with the Pentium.
2nd> What fewer people know. Because
you can unlock an extra 8 TMUs and 128 Stream Processors with it (15% increase) if you'd be willing to overwrite the card BIOS. And the fact that you can increase its power limit to attain a bigger overclock on the card. Combine the two, you could get an increase of up to 27% performance over stock config.
Both of these have downsides however, (a) the custom BIOS file will make the card have compatibility issue with certain driver version. Do backup driver that work before updating to a newer one; (b) with increased power limit, you can overclock the card hard enough to make it draw ~100W from the PCIe slot (that's way higher than the spec for the slot: 65/75W), so don't go too crazy on those numbers unless you want a dead MB.
The case, on the other hand, is purely budget compromise.
CXM450: semi-modular, 37.4A@12V ~ 450W. S12II SS520-GB: non-modular, 40A@12V ~ 480W. But sale price ends for the CXM within 20 hours.