Was wondering about this budget build, need an opinion

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ok strait into the build, although im not very sure about the mobo or if the psu is sufficient



Intel pentium g3258

Hyper 212 evo

Msi z97 pc mate

HyperX fury 8gb

Sapphire r9 270x 2gb

EVGA b 500w

Wd blue 1tb

Kingston 120gb ssd

Cheapest optical drive i can find

All this will be inside a corsair 230t


also i will buy artic cooling mx-4 thermal paste


The total is 457


I dont include an os since im going to try out linux


I am open to any suggestions to swap out, but the limit must not exceed 500£ thanks!!!
 
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Because is CPU bound titles it falls behind. The Pentium will lose to an i3 or better in BF4, multiplayer mode. Crysis 3 is another title it would lose in. Any game that uses more then 2 cores, it will struggle. Also benchmarks do not show a real world situation, where you have other things running in the background, like antivirus and such.
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don't get Kingston ssd not good quality spend a little extra get an ssd from crucial brand like mx100. also the z97 isn't worth it for a budget build. id get a cheaper h97 mobo and maybe get an i3 if it doesn't go over budget. also if your not overclocking the hyper evo will not be worth it.
 
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Forget the SSD and get a better CPU.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4440 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor (£131.20 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock H97 PRO4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£68.23 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Kingston Fury Black Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£61.04 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£39.59 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 270X 2GB Dual-X Video Card (£119.00 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Thermaltake Versa H21 ATX Mid Tower Case (£23.05 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£44.84 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£10.46 @ Aria PC)
Total: £497.41
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-11-25 20:52 GMT+0000
 
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looks like a good build. +1
 
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The Samsung EVO is a great SSD! Also, the G3258 will probably be just fine for overclocking and will not bottleneck the R9 270X.
 
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Thank you! Why do people think pentium = bad, the g3258 is based on the new devil's canyon architecture, and a benchamark compared to the i7 4440, it only lacks behind 10fps if you overclock it a bit....
 
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Because is CPU bound titles it falls behind. The Pentium will lose to an i3 or better in BF4, multiplayer mode. Crysis 3 is another title it would lose in. Any game that uses more then 2 cores, it will struggle. Also benchmarks do not show a real world situation, where you have other things running in the background, like antivirus and such.
 
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Yeah the problem is that Pentium is dual core so any game that uses more then 2 cores a quad core cpu will out preform it. In terms of raw speed yes the Pentium g3258 is really nice for the price if you OC it.
 
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