Originally Posted by
Kostattoo
- As said from poster above is the power supply. The build is indeed better. Mobo has all the new tec that h81 doesn't. The mobo you selected can not support more than 1600Mhz ram. So that ram won't work on it well.
- Also the ram is high profile, which means if you later on add a good aftermarket air cooler you will have clearance problems. Two sticks of ram is preferable to enable dual channel instead of one.
- The G3258 is popular for gaming cause it overclocks very very good and easily (for high overclocks you would need a decent aftermarket cooler). You can achieve speeds of a stock i5 and higher.
- Since you didn't mention a budget i assumed you want something cheap-ish for your son, just enough to play his games. That usually doesn't include an ssd, thus why i chose the WD hdd instead of seagate, they are more reliable. The WD black is even better but is more expensive and probably not worth the price.
- Case is the one i go for, in almost all low budget micro builds. Has good room for a decent amount of storage drives, fits big gpus and generally is of good quality for its low price.
- Gpu, i don't really like the itx ones. That means the really small ones with 1 fan solution for small itx builds (thus my cheaper 2 fan solution). They usually run hot and make alot more noise since the fan works full time to dissipate the heat.
How do you even compare one with the other? Yes an ssd is awesome, makes the rig more responsive and everything loads faster. But when you do load the game after that you don't gain something to notice the difference.
Hyperthreading from the other hand will let you open that chrome tab while gaming and having say music and teamspeak up. An i3, the usual 4160, costs around 40bucks more not 60-70 as a good 120gb ssd.
Again if there was 100bucks more i would get a 4160 and see if there is good deal for R9 270 instead of the gtx750ti.