Solved 2 PC build options - opinions please :)

Hey people. Could anyone please help me decide which of these builds to go with? I’m thinking the $1000 one, but just wanted to check. I know the case and cooling hasn’t been listed in the $1100 one, it won’t have the liquid cooling, and the company is sourcing a case similar to the $1000 quoted case.

$1000 PC

Intel core i5 4460 Quad Core (3.20ghz turbo to 3.40ghz)

Corsair AIO liquid cooling system

MSI B85M-E45 Gaming motherboard

2TB HDD
120GB SSD

8GB DDR3 Kingston Hyper X Gaming memory

MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4gb

Windows 10 home

Case: BitFenix Gaming case with led fans included.

60 day hardware warranty. Built by an IT tech who has done other friends PCs and is great - not dodgy at all and would fix any issues.

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$1100

AMD A10-6800K 4.10GHz

16GB DDR3

ASRock FM2A88X+ killer

2GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 960

120GB SSD

1TB HDD

Windows 10 Pro

Built by a computer trading shop, with 1 year warranty.

vger said:

Hello

I am assuming you are wanting build for gaming. Also i am assuming you have a good gaming monitor. What isn't mentioned tho is the type of psu.

Also i would pick the #1 build..



@Evan Omo

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Thanks for your reply. Sorry I didn’t upload originally, I was waiting for the computer shop to advise me.

1 - $1000 is
RaidMax RX-850AE 80+ GOLD Certified Modular Power Supply.

2 - $1100 is - PSU is a non-modular 400W

I’m using mainly for photoshop, illustrator, WoW, COD, Overwatch and fortnite. My old Alienware laptop ran these all fine with lesser specs, so this should do the trick. Now knowing the psu of each build I’m definitely thinking build 1. The promise of a 12 month warranty with build 2 was part of what formed my doubt.

DOUGIE said:

I would go with the First option, regardless.
The $1000 build.
Go intel. Has a 30% faster processor than the AMD rig, and that equates to much faster processing power..
Intel CPU benchmark - 6702
AMD CPU benchmark - 4871

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Thanks so much for your reply. Great advice, thank you

phillpower2 said:

Sorry but have to be blunt and would not go near either of the two, dated and limited spec hardware, a Raidmax PSU in a build costing $1000 and a no name brand PSU in a build costing $1100

Two things worthy of particular mention. (1) Liquid cooling is only something that you should worry about using if extreme overclocking, it requires additional maintenance, can leak and take out all of your hardware and the pumps can get noisy. (2) Purchasing your own parts then having them assembled for you gives you the benefit of each individual component having their own separate warranty, example, I have put a list of parts together for you at the link here the PSU chosen has a 10 year warranty which is a sign of the quality and the cover of what you should be looking for before parting with your cash.

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So sorry for my late reply. Thank you very much for taking the time to write such a detailed reply, and also for doing the build for me, I really appreciate it. That build looks great, and so much better than the options I posted. Unfortunately in AUD it comes to about $1400-$1600 without the other bits and pieces needed. I tried fiddling around on the Aussie parts site but couldn’t get it any lower than that. I suppose by happy coincidence neither of the two builds ended up working out, so thanks to your advice I now know I should be raising my standards a bit when looking from now on. I have happened across an i7 4770 build for $1100. So glad the other two options fell through for me to be able to go with this one.

Thanks again so much for your help!
Tiff