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Hi there guys first time posting so I'm not sure if I'm putting this in the right place :P
But I have just bought a computer and wanted to know your input on it
Here are the specs:

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz (6 x 4.1GHz Turbo) 14MB Cache Six-Core
MB: MSI 970 GAMING AM3+ SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 MB
GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X 6GB GDDR5 Overclocked Card
RAM: 8GB DDR3 1866Mhz High Performance Gaming RAM + 8GB HyperX FURY DDR3 1866Mhz
Storage: Samsung 250GB SSD Upto 500MB/s+ Speed Solid State Drive
PowerSupply: RaidMax RX-730SS 730W PSU / Semi-Modular
OS: Windows 10

This is my first time buying and building a gaming PC, I have built PC's in the past tho
Let me know what you think!
 
Hey dude,

CPU i'd swap out for a Intel with high single thread performance, cores do not equal performance in games, games tend to overload a single thread and AMD don't have good single thread performance, the only place AMD would have an advantage would be multicore benchmarks, rendering, encoding etc.

Check here for single thread performance.

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html

Decent Gfx card, personally I'm leaning towards 480x but they're similar in performance.

Ram is decent, are those sticks similar? I'd try not to mix sticks.

Storage, personally I barely use my SSD and when I do I don't really notice a difference, The reason being I don't store all my games on the same drive as my OS and programs. A dedicated 7200rpm drive is fine for gaming. But that's personal preference based on my experience.
 
I love the vishera and FX cpu they perform better than my I5 and they are 4.1 Ghz so fck Intel
 
Noah said:
Hey dude,

CPU i'd swap out for a Intel with high single thread performance, cores do not equal performance in games, games tend to overload a single thread and AMD don't have good single thread performance, the only place AMD would have an advantage would be multicore benchmarks, rendering, encoding etc.

Check here for single thread performance.

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html

Decent Gfx card, personally I'm leaning towards 480x but they're similar in performance.

Ram is decent, are those sticks similar? I'd try not to mix sticks.

Storage, personally I barely use my SSD and when I do I don't really notice a difference, The reason being I don't store all my games on the same drive as my OS and programs. A dedicated 7200rpm drive is fine for gaming. But that's personal preference based on my experience.
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You don't notice the SSD difference?

I feel bad for reading that entire post because if you opened with that line I would not have read further
 
Unfortunately I have already bought all the components, as I have spent basically all the money I have saved up so it'll be a while before I can afford a new CPU and Mobo
I'm hoping to be able to play Doom, Just Cause 3, ARK, Battlefield 1 and 4, Evolve Stage 2 on this setup with reasonably high graphics settings
 
Also in terms of SSD, I have that SSD to put my OS, main games on and I have two WD 2TB drives for the rest of my media
Personally I find an SSD to have a small amount of performance improvement on some games
 
Noah said:
Hey dude,

CPU i'd swap out for a Intel with high single thread performance, cores do not equal performance in games, games tend to overload a single thread and AMD don't have good single thread performance, the only place AMD would have an advantage would be multicore benchmarks, rendering, encoding etc.

Check here for single thread performance.

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html

Decent Gfx card, personally I'm leaning towards 480x but they're similar in performance.

Ram is decent, are those sticks similar? I'd try not to mix sticks.

Storage, personally I barely use my SSD and when I do I don't really notice a difference, The reason being I don't store all my games on the same drive as my OS and programs. A dedicated 7200rpm drive is fine for gaming. But that's personal preference based on my experience.
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I'd love you to do a benchmark of your game running on your 7200 archaic technology vs running that thing on my Samsung SM951 512GB NVMe

My friend, what is a loading screen?

I've never seen one
 
Thor187 said:
I'd love you to do a benchmark of your game running on your 7200 archaic technology vs running that thing on my Samsung SM951 512GB NVMe

My friend, what is a loading screen?

I've never seen one
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Sure name the game I'll test on my SSD.
 
mister said:
Same... that and the guy wants to put an intel cpu onto an amd board.
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Clearly it's implied that he has to change the board out, I'm not here to spoonfeed him I'm here to post suggestions like he asked.
 
InsanityGFX said:
Hi there guys first time posting so I'm not sure if I'm putting this in the right place :P
But I have just bought a computer and wanted to know your input on it
Here are the specs:

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz (6 x 4.1GHz Turbo) 14MB Cache Six-Core
MB: MSI 970 GAMING AM3+ SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 MB
GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X 6GB GDDR5 Overclocked Card
RAM: 8GB DDR3 1866Mhz High Performance Gaming RAM + 8GB HyperX FURY DDR3 1866Mhz
Storage: Samsung 250GB SSD Upto 500MB/s+ Speed Solid State Drive
PowerSupply: RaidMax RX-730SS 730W PSU / Semi-Modular
OS: Windows 10

This is my first time buying and building a gaming PC, I have built PC's in the past tho
Let me know what you think!
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Looks good. Congrats.
Yeah, fck Intel. Multi core is where it's at.
1 thing maybe, nothing big, I would've gone with an AMD GPU, just to compliment the rest of the system. AMD + Vulkan is where the future's at.
 
Noah said:
Sure name the game I'll test on my SSD.
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Why bother - there are a million articles and benchmarks available which shows SSD vs HDD.

If you are not seeing any performance increases with SSD then you have some major hardware issues.
 
beans100 said:
Looks good. Congrats.
Yeah, fck Intel. Multi core is where it's at.
1 thing maybe, nothing big, I would've gone with an AMD GPU, just to compliment the rest of the system. AMD + Vulkan is where the future's at.
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I was thinking about going for the RX 480 8GB but the GTX 1060 looked so good I couldn't help myself :crylaugh:
Plus the red and black accents go well with the AMD theme, as well as the fact that it has RGB lighting and so does my case
https://www.msi.com/Graphics-card/GeForce-GTX-1060-GAMING-X-6G.html#hero-overview
 
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gregmcc said:
Why bother - there are a million articles and benchmarks available which shows SSD vs HDD.

If you are not seeing any performance increases with SSD then you have some major hardware issues.
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Real world situations vs benchmarks.
 
gregmcc said:
Real world enough for you?
[video=youtube;6iBhf8rpobo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iBhf8rpobo[/video]
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At least the HDD gave me some time to fix me up some coffee.
In the end, all three gets the job done. Just depends on whether you can or can't wait a few seconds longer. Time is money, as they say.
 
gregmcc said:
Real world enough for you?
[video=youtube;6iBhf8rpobo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iBhf8rpobo[/video]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCItBX8288Y

Worth the premium for a few seconds?

Also I'm not sure what the test environment is like
If it's dedicated OS dedicated game drives or OS + Game.


My personal experience is that I load faster than everyone else in CSGO, ArmA3, Men of War AS2, pretty much everything, bar bloat games.

Friends rig:
i5 3700k @ 4.5
16GB
980ti
250GB SSD (i'll ask what brands)

My rig:
i7 4790 @ 4.0
16GB
7870
3TB WD30EZRX http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136874
 
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