Gaming rig for friend Buget 40K

1. What is the purpose of the computer? What all applications and games are you going to run? (Stupid answers like 'gaming' or 'office work' will not work. Be exact. Which games? Which applications? Avoid the word 'et cetera.')
Ans: Only Gaming, all latest games and nothing else.

2. What is your overall budget? If you can extend a bit for a more balanced configuration, then mention this too.
Ans:40k budget can extend to 50K

3. Planning to overclock?
Ans: Yes

4. Which Operating System are you planning to use?
Ans: Windows 7

5. How much hard drive space is needed?
Ans: 1 TB

6. Do you want to buy a monitor? If yes, please mention which screen size and resolution do you want. If you already have a monitor and want to reuse it, again mention the size and resolution of monitor you have.
Ans: Yes want to buy monitor also, suggest 1080p if budget allows.

7. Which components you DON'T want to buy or which components you already have and plan on reusing?
Ans: Mouse, Keyboard, Speakers.

8. When are you planning to buy the system?
Ans: Next week

9. Have you ever built a desktop before or will this be done by an assembler?
Ans: Have an Old CRT PC.

10. Where do you live? Are you buying locally? Are you open to buying stuff from online shops if you don't get locally?
Ans: Orrisa, NO online purchase, locally preferred.

11. Anything else which you would like to say?
Ans: He is hardcore CS 1.6 player, does response time like 2ms, 5ms or 8ms of monitor has any effect over professional CS 1.6 players? if yes then please explain. i heard professional CS 1.6 players need 2ms monitor? Iam also a hardcore CS player but i play on lappy

i5 3570 (12000)
gigabyte b75m dh3 (4000)
sapphire hd7870 (16000)
corsair gs500 (4000)
gskill ripjawsx 4 GB (2100)
WD blue 1 TB (3900)
nzxt gamma (2500)
dell st2240l (8500)
logitech mk200 (700)

total: 53000

+1 to harshil's config and just want to ask harshil that op can just extend it up to 50k so maybe u can just town down the config a bit.

harshilsharma63 said:
i3 3570 (12000)gigabyte b75m dh3 (4000)sapphire hd7890 (16000)corsair gs500 (4000)gskill ripjawsx 4 GB (2100)WD blue 1 TB (3900)nzxt gamma (2500)dell st2240l (8500)logitech mk200 (700)total: 53000

Actually that is a HD 7870. +1 to the config.

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harshilsharma63 said:
i3 3570 (12000)gigabyte b75m dh3 (4000)sapphire hd7890 (16000)corsair gs500 (4000)gskill ripjawsx 4 GB (2100)WD blue 1 TB (3900)nzxt gamma (2500)dell st2240l (8500)logitech mk200 (700)total: 53000

dude it is i5 3570 and hd 7870

@op get i5 3470 @11k as you will save 1k :wink:

thanks you all for your replies..

What have you decided?

the config which you recommended

Okay

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Be Advised OP: You will not be able to overclock that chip,otherwise its a good config and get a good Gaming Mouse If playing CS,It'll help

If OP buys an overclockable Rig and a gaming mouse it will over shoot OPs budget.

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No.I'm not Asking him to BUY an Overclockable rig,its what he mentioned in his requirements,if I had that budget i'll definitely be happy with This rig :wink:

already have gaming gears :-/ but why didn't you suggested overclockable rig?

RON28 said:
already have gaming gears :-/ but why didn't you suggested overclockable rig?

An fx 8350 would have costed more.

I dont think buying a Gaming mouse should overshoot the budget, Get a G300/400.. for 1.5 k if you can

already have GAMING MOUSE and MOUSE PAD and HEADPHONE :-/

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OP If you can settle for hd 7850 or GTX 660
than you CAN get
FX 8350-11.5k
Asus M5A97 R 2.0 - 7k

instead of

I5 3570/ I5 3450 -12.7k/11.5k
Gigabyte GA-b75m-D3H- 4k

you'll have abilty to overclock,BUT at the expense of GPU,and no amount of overclocking of a CPU can fill the gap between a Lower level GPU and Higher level GPU,(HD 7850<GTX 660<HD7870)besides intel CPU is known for is good gaming performence so even a non-overclockable CPU will out match an overclocked FX-8350,besides at FULLL HD res. Cpu generally has less impact on frameretes,and since you mentioned ONLY GAMING NOTHING ELSE,FX-8350 rig is not recommanded,

hope i Helped. . .

thaluageek said:
OP If you can settle for hd 7850 or GTX 660
than you CAN get
FX 8350-11.5k
Asus M5A97 R 2.0 - 7k

instead of

I5 3570/ I5 3450 -12.7k/11.5k
Gigabyte GA-b75m-D3H- 4k

you'll have abilty to overclock,BUT at the expense of GPU,and no amount of overclocking of a CPU can fill the gap between a Lower level GPU and Higher level GPU,(HD 7850<GTX 660<HD7870)besides intel CPU is known for is good gaming performence so even a non-overclockable CPU will out match an overclocked FX-8350,besides at FULLL HD res. Cpu generally has less impact on frameretes,and since you mentioned ONLY GAMING NOTHING ELSE,FX-8350 rig is not recommanded,

hope i Helped. . .

harshil's config is good.. go for it.. if you can buy locally, you may be able to find lower prices.
dont sacrifice on the GPU. stick with 7870 and the i5. i5 is excellent for the present and next 1-2 years gaming scene.

i don't want FX 8350, its for multi tasking, i want a rig with I5 plus gtx 660

can anyone please reply with this combo

You can Go with the HD 7870 . HD 7870 > GTX 660... Go with the config suggested by Harshil...

ok final kar du phir?

FX-8350 is just for multitasking...this idea does not hold good now a days. With the release of Far Cry 3 and Crysis 3, games have started using more than four cores seriously and FX-8350, FX -6300, even the older FX-4170 are competing against the pricier i5 and i7 models with very good performance. In Crysis 3, FX-8350 beats all the i5 Processors, even the costlier i5 3570K and performs just below i7 3770K, a processor which almost 10K highly priced. The upcoming games like Battlefield 4 is developed on Frostbite 3 engine which is developed from the beginning to use multiple cores optimally. We can easily assume that games of future are going to be optimized for multiple X86 based cores and one of the main reason for it is the design of upcoming consoles which are also using Multi-Core X86 modules. So game designers now have the freedom to optimize their developments for multi-core environments as it is available in both PC and Console front. Before that consoles used to have outdated and under powered hardware and it was a tough job for the designers to optimize a muti-platform games for both consoles and PC as powerful PC hardware were missing in the consoles and game developers were forced to use single core dependencies in PC games even though resources were available.
This is not just my opinion, if you follow Tomshardware and Anandtec in regular basis, you'll find out that they have predicted the same thing and in their Monthly builds and recommendations, they are suggesting Quad Core CPUs as bare minimum.

Also, AMD FX platform is going to be a long runner as their upcoming processors are supported in current AM3+ platform too. In case of Intel, Haswell is knocking at the door and after some time, it will be hard to find a LGA 1155 based Sandy or Ivy Bridge Processors.

ok then i should go with FX-8350 config

Yup, Go wid the FX 8350 and Post the Final config which you have opted.

last doubt,

friend saying to please post Intel and AMD rig,
he wants intel i5 with gtx 660 or fx 8350 with gtx 660? some one please post the config with these combos.

Intel rig:

i5 3450 (11000)
Gigabyte B75M DH3 (4000)
Corsair vengeance or G.skill ripjawsx 4 GB (2100-2200) get the cheaper out of two
WD blue 1 TB (3900)
Asus GTX 660 2 GB (15500)
Corsair GS500 (4000)
NZXT Gamma (2500)
Dell st2240l (8500)

total: 51k

AMD rig:

fx8350 (11500)
Asus m5a97 Evo r2.0 (6800)
Corsair vengeance or G.skill ripjawsx 4 GB (2100-2200) get the cheaper out of two
WD blue 1 TB (3900)
Asus GTX 660 2 GB (15500)
Corsair GS500 (4000)
NZXT Gamma (2500)
Dell st2240l (8500)

total: 54800

Both rigs can use the Corsair Value rams @ 1.4-1.5k
Monitor : AOC I2251FWE @ 8k
With money saved above, upgrade gpu to 7870.

If GPU upgrade is not possible for whatever reason, the intel rig can do with the Corsair cx430v2. Both, 3450 and 660, have quite low power consumption.

Myth said:
Both rigs can use the Corsair Value rams @ 1.4-1.5k
Monitor : AOC I2251FWE @ 8k
With money saved above, upgrade gpu to 7870.

If GPU upgrade is not possible for whatever reason, the intel rig can do with the Corsair cx430v2. Both, 3450 and 660, have quite low power consumption.

> Corsair value select rams would be okay with the Intel rig as it's not overclockable, but for the AMD rig, OP shppuld go for Corsair vengance or ruipjawsx for a complete overclock package.

> Andy specific reason for the other monitor?

harshilsharma63 said:
> Corsair value select rams would be okay with the Intel rig as it's not overclockable, but for the AMD rig, OP shppuld go for Corsair vengance or ruipjawsx for a complete overclock package.

> Andy specific reason for the other monitor?

Try to save money for the 7870. :razz: