New PC Build

[tomwright366]

Hey, I'm 14 years old and I'm building my first ever PC and was wondering if these components would be suitable for my gaming needs. Please let me know if there's anything you think I should change as I have plenty of time to make changes!

The CPU will be an AMD FX 8350, and I think this will be good for overclocking and will have good enough performance for the money I'm paying for this.

The motherboard will be a ASRock 970 Extreme3 R2.0 and I think this will be ok because it has AM3+ sockets and has a maximum capability of 64GB of RAM.

The ram I've chosen is Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB of ram and this has a cas latency of 9 which was mainly the reason I chose it, I'm told this doesn't really matter.

The GPU I have chosen is a MSI Radeon R9 285 2GB Video card and I have watched a lot of vids about this and it can play nearly all games max settings at 1080p which I'm happy about and the price isn't really much of a problem.

The other parts don't really matter right now, but thanks in advance

 

[Bryan Choi]

Both companies have had driver issues. The most recent seem to have been AMD's, but I believe most problems have been fixed. With consoles moving to AMD GPUs, it is possible that near-term new game releases may be better optimized for AMD hardware. Consider that speculation, however, until benchmarks come out.
I'm not a fanboy of either one; until recently I was running all AMD cards, and I am currently running all nVidia; driver issues did not play a role in the switch.

from my personal experience (it might be inaccurate because it was three years ago) amd's drivers were terrible. I had to constantly switch between drivers and i have sworn to never use a amd gpu again. got two 780s classys and ill never look back

 

[Bryan Choi]

looking at onus' builds i agree with the way theyre set up. I wouldnt be so set on the i5 because with dx12 you wont need as good of a cpu because instead of the cpu sending small messages to the gpu the cpu will be sending large packets of data which would require less overall cpu power.

True. Anyways thanks for your help, it means a lot as this is my first ever mid range PC build.

good luck mate, youll do fine

 

[tomwright366]

Both companies have had driver issues. The most recent seem to have been AMD's, but I believe most problems have been fixed. With consoles moving to AMD GPUs, it is possible that near-term new game releases may be better optimized for AMD hardware. Consider that speculation, however, until benchmarks come out.
I'm not a fanboy of either one; until recently I was running all AMD cards, and I am currently running all nVidia; driver issues did not play a role in the switch.

looking at onus' builds i agree with the way theyre set up. I wouldnt be so set on the i5 because with dx12 you wont need as good of a cpu because instead of the cpu sending small messages to the gpu the cpu will be sending large packets of data which would require less overall cpu power.

True. Anyways thanks for your help, it means a lot as this is my first ever mid range PC build.

Good Luck, and All The Best,
R34per

😀

 

[tomwright366]

looking at onus' builds i agree with the way theyre set up. I wouldnt be so set on the i5 because with dx12 you wont need as good of a cpu because instead of the cpu sending small messages to the gpu the cpu will be sending large packets of data which would require less overall cpu power.

True. Anyways thanks for your help, it means a lot as this is my first ever mid range PC build.

good luck mate, youll do fine

😀