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MOHAWK117

MOHAWK117

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Hey fellas! 😀 i need a gaming rig my current specs are bad and quiet outdated.. So im gonna buy a new rig and its gonna be mainly for gaming and im not gonna play games on high res/texture, so mid-range is fine.All the parts must be included(ONLY CPU)..guys it has to be as low as possible... and please try to give me links of parts from the link: www.flipkart.com cause im in india and the price of parts in india are quite high. 😉 . So please try to give me links from that site! Many thanks in advance! :) :) 😀 :bounce:
 
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hyperbole isn't of much use. let's get some facts.

1. The OP will be playing at 1024x768, which a lower resolution than 720p (1280x720).

2. going from 1600-1866 yields a 3-8% performance boost @720p; less of difference at higher quality settings. You hit severe diminishing returns with an APU after 1866.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/memory-bandwidth-scaling-trinity,3419-8.html
I assume you're not going to claim that 47 fps (1866) is acceptable while 43 (1600) is not.

3.you will need to overclock your fsb with 1866 RAM anyway to actually achieve 1866 speed. Any decent 1600mhz stick can be overclocked to 1866, so spending more on "1866" RAM is a waste of money here;

4. The motherboard has 2 DIMM slots, and the OP will eventually need 8gb. using 2x2gb right now would be a waste of memory later for a 10% performance boost right now.

5. If you can make a better build on that budget with parts available in India, please do. It can only help the OP.
 
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I don't think you realized he needs it bought from flipkart. Also, he doesn't even use GBP as a currency.

You won't get much for $330. (19958.40 Indian Rupees)
 
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Yeah I realised after I posted.
 
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quilciri: 1. Even at 720p with th A8-6600k he won't be able to play most games at higher than low quality and many demanding games will be stuttering at this resolution even with lowest settings possible.
2. The benchmark you posted is a memory scaling benchmark for a Trininty APU, if you can post memory scaling benchmark of the Richland APU you have suggested, it may serve to prove your point better. That point being going from 1600 MHz to 1866 MHz won't improve his FPS much but I am quite sure a single memory module in a single channel configuration will halve the bandwidth. In all the APU benchmarks I have seen including the one you have linked to two memory modules were used in a dual channel configuration.
3. AMD Piledriver chips natively support 1866 MHz memory; he won't need to overclock anything.
4. In gaming it will be much more than 10% boost in performance since in dual channel mode he will have twice the bandwidth, that is like comparing two discrete graphics cards with one having twice the bandwidth of the other one.
5. I already made a better build with parts available in India that is a little over the OP budget, but since he seems to believe that he can get too much performance by spending that little amount of money he may as well go with your build but I am sure he will be more than disappointed either way, since most of the games he mentioned he wants to play are rather demanding and without a capable discrete graphics card their performance will suffer even on the lowest settings at this reslution.
 
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I did mate but it was out of budget.... I did that back at 2013 and now i need a comp and i have the budget up and i don't know much in computers so all im asking you to do is select the parts at the given price from the given site and ill review em myself and see if i can get em on the street . Pretty simple..
 
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all the benchmarks I posted are in games...and it is 3-8% boost. back up your opinion with some evidence, please.

Richland is less affected by memory speed than trinity, so trinity benches prove my point nicely, but here's your long-form birth certificate:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/memory-scaling-gaming-haswell-richland,3593-11.html

The Chip supporting 1866 isn't the problem. No motherboard will run RAM at 1866 without overclocking. every motherboard you see that supports 1866+ speeds you will see a little "(O.C.)" next to.

If you didn't build it under budget, you didn't meet the criteria. Your build is also missing an optical drive, which would make it more than 20% over budget.


 
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All the benchmarks you posted were using dual channel configuration, your suggested 'under the budget' build has one memory stick.
Most AMD boards I have seen supporting bulldozer/Piledriver cores natively support 1866 MHz memory without overclocking.
I can't find any benchmarks for the A8-6600k running the games the OP said he wanted to play. It will be interesting if you can find any. Maybe it can prove that it is not as bad at running newer more demanding games at 720p as I think it is.
 
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Ok guys i have selected my graphics card:Sapphire AMD/ATI HD 7770 1 GB GDDR5. Now i need a processor which is darn cheap (amd/intel) which won't bottleneck or limit my card's potential. I also need all the other parts make em as cheap as possible the other parts along with my card should be 25000 INR. Guys help out .????
 
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You cant get a cheap CPU which wont limit your cards potential, only an i5 would be good, i3's and AMD cards wont cut it, maybe an 8350, but thats the 4.2 Ghz Version.
 
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It's not quite that easy to bottleneck a GPU. I've no idea if it's even within his budget, but an FX-6300 would perform well enough for a 7770.
 
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Believe me, I know what that star means. My motherboard box has the 1866 MHz memory under supported memory without the star or (O.C.). and same thing under specifications in the manual, I guess mine is a newer revision of the PCB since it also came with a newer BIOS version that supports Vishera CPUs out of the box. The original board is by no means new as well, since it was released back in 2011, so Believe whatever you like to believe.
 
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Mohawk you need to fill out that query form, it will help everyone understand your needs better. Just write "N/A" for questions you dont understand.

Please list out your current config as well, certain parts can be salvaged from the same. And if you dont know what your current one is, go to ->start menu, type DXDIAG, click yes, and read the config and post it here.

Also, if you can , open up your chassis and see what the make of the PSU is ? (Incase you are confused with PSU, its the same as SMPS)

Again , since he isnt going to overclock, i think his mobo and processor suggestions shouldnt include parts that enable the same. (Trust me dude, you dont want to overclock at your skill level, might end up frying the cpu, and you can game all the games you just named quite decently at stock levels)
 
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I can't agree with this enough. It's way too tempting to novice overclockers to bump the voltage too high. After all, it's just .3 volts, what harm could that small of an increase do? XD
I was that person once. >_>

Overclocking is much too harmful to even have enabled for people who don't know how to do it properly. With a budget as small as the original poster's, one failed OC could mean all his money was wasted and he has no chance to get replacement parts.
 
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