Upgrading cpu. mobo. ram. and psu.

[Nighthawk12]

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: Gta4, Crysis 3, Max payne 3 and GTA 5 hopefully. watching movies, browsing yada. yada.

2. What is your overall budget? If you can extend a bit for a more balanced configuration, then mention this too.
Ans:14k

3. Planning to overclock?
Ansunno.

4. Which Operating System are you planning to use?
Ans:Using Windows 7 currently and would use the same.

5. How much hard drive space is needed?
Ans:None have 1tb already.

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:Nope I already have 17inch 720p.

7. Which components you DON'T want to buy or which components you already have and plan on reusing?
Ans:Monitor, keyboard, mouse, graphics card, and case.

8. When are you planning to buy the system?
Ans:Soon this month only.

9. Have you ever built a desktop before or will this be done by an assembler?
Ans:Nope. Would ask my friend.

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:New Delhi.

11. Anything else which you would like to say?
Ans: I've shortlisted AMD FX 6300 for processor and CX 430v2 for psu please suggest me mobo and ram and any other processor if its better than FX 6300 at gaming and I have HD 7750 GPU currently.

 

[ankush28]

FX 6300 @ 7.3k
Asus m5a97 r2.0 @ 6k
Antec VP450P @ 2.6k (remove cx430v2 it have some issues)
Ram G.skill RipjawsX 4gb @ 2.3k
this is minimum you should get
Or gigabyte GA-970A-DS3 @ 5.2k

 

[harshilsharma63]

Option 1:

i3 3220 (7000)
Gigabyte B75M DH3 (4000)
Corsair Value Select 4 GB (1900)
Corsair CX430V (2700)

total: 15.6k

option 2:

same as askush28's suggestion.

 

[ankush28]

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:Gamingwatching movies, browsing yada. yada.

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[harshilsharma63]

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[Nighthawk12]

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My bad updated. Haven't posted for a while lol.

FX 6300 @ 7.3k
Asus m5a97 r2.0 @ 6k
Antec VP450P @ 2.6k (remove cx430v2 it have some issues)
Ram G.skill RipjawsX 4gb @ 2.3k
this is minimum you should get
Or gigabyte GA-970A-DS3 @ 5.2k

Is there any other cheaper mobo?

 

[ASHISH65]

^ no cheaper mobo.that is minimum

 

[ankush28]

cheaper am3+ mobo are there but I'll not recommend them better stick with what I suggested get gigabyte one and
corsair value select 1333mhz CL9 Ram @ 1.8k

 

[Nighthawk12]

^Can you please tell me the reason for it? Because I'm tight on budget.

 

[ankush28]

low end MoBo AM3+ motherboards needs to be flashed with latest BIOS to work with latest Piledriver processors unless you get revised version like GA-78LMT-USB3 rev5.0 @ 3.6k better spend 1.6k more and be tension free

spending extra money worths you will not need to worry for next 3-4 years

 

[Nighthawk12]

@Ankush I'm thinking to buy this gigabyte GA-970A-DS3 @ 5.2k mobo as u suggested and yeah I need one more help. Would that mobo will fit in my cabinet? Umm currently i'm using 945gcm-s2l mobo it fits quite easily.
I'm using cabinet given by HCL. And I'm very tight on budget... can't afford cabinet atm.

P.S excuse my English lol.

 

[ankush28]

it is micro atx should fit better post pic IDK which cabby you are talking about

 

[Nighthawk12]

Hey @Ankush how is this mobo Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 ? Does it support FX 6300 outta the box?

 

[ankush28]

^ no you will need to flash latest bios i.e. 1401

ASUS - Motherboards- M5A78L-M/USB3

check cpu support

 

[Nighthawk12]

Is it complicated to flash the bios? Because there is no other Micro-ATX board are available at this range....

 

[harshilsharma63]

Is it complicated to flash the bios? Because there is no other Micro-ATX board are available at this range....

Its not complicated, but you will need another am3/am3+ cpu to flash it (in case the board doesn't support flashing without cpu).

 

[Nighthawk12]

And how will I know that if the motherboard support flashing without cpu? And if it doesn't it'll screw up because I don't have any other AMD CPU....

 

[ankush28]

OP if you are very strict on budget then better go for i3-3220 it is very very near to FX 6300 if you dont want to run highend cpu intensive program and 3d modeling editing stuff bla bla.
Very few current games are multithread optimised.

source:- AnandTech | Bench - CPU

 

[Chaitanya]

OP if you are very strict on budget then better go for i3-3220 it is very very near to FX 6300 if you dont want to run highend cpu intensive program and 3d modeling editing stuff bla bla.
Very few current games are multithread optimised.

source:- AnandTech | Bench - CPU

Good suggestion for tight budget..

 

[Nighthawk12]

Nah mate, I'm avoiding i3.. cause I think AMD one will be more future proof compared to i3. Since the upcoming games will require more than 2 cores.. i.e BF4, GTA 5 etc.