My $600 Budget Build (Could use friendly criticism)

[Pojo458]

This is a build I'm thinking about buying with a $600 budget, would it work? I'm still new at PC building so I don't want to make any novice mistakes. I'm going to probably be using a resolution of 1920 x 1080 and I'm aiming for it to be able to play most current games on ultra such a skyrim. Any help and friendly criticism would be helpful.

Rosewill LINE GLOW ATX Mid Tower Computer Case,Dual USB 3.0,come with Four Fans,Support up to 7 Fans

Rosewill Green Series RG530-S12 530W Continuous @40°C, 80 PLUS Certified, Single 12V Rail, Active PFC

GIGABYTE GV-R787OC-2GD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-8GBRL

AMD FX-4100 Zambezi 3.6GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor FD4100WMGUSBX

GIGABYTE GA-970A-DS3 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard

[inux94]

Change the CPU/Mobo to this:

CPU: Intel Core i3-3220 3.3GHz Dual-Core Processor ($107.28 @ CompUSA)
Motherboard: ASRock H77M Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $167.27
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2012-11-24 19:52 EST-0500)

Or this:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-4300 3.8GHz Quad-Core Processor ($129.00 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: ASRock 970 Extreme3 ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($69.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $198.99
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2012-11-24 19:53 EST-0500)

[Serzy]

Definitely squeeze a SSD into the budget at least 120gb. Also try to afford a case that has cable routing behind the motherboard it will help with cooling and the overall build quality.

[Pojo458]

Change the CPU/Mobo to this:

CPU: Intel Core i3-3220 3.3GHz Dual-Core Processor ($107.28 @ CompUSA)
Motherboard: ASRock H77M Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $167.27
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2012-11-24 19:52 EST-0500)

Or this:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-4300 3.8GHz Quad-Core Processor ($129.00 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: ASRock 970 Extreme3 ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($69.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $198.99
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2012-11-24 19:53 EST-0500)

What about
AMD FX-4100 3.6GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ Quad-Core Desktop Processor
GIGABYTE GA-970A-UD3 ATX AMD Motherboard

$171 and comes with the same RAM as listed in the 1st post for free
?

[inux94]

The 4300 got more performance packed into it, hence why I chose it.

[at05gt]

<---- (Resident AMD lover here)

Unless you are getting an insanely low price on the 4100 go with the 4300 or an unlocked i3-i5. The Zambezi's are considered old tech now, I bought the 8150 and I'm kicking myself for not waiting a month and getting the 8300.

[Pojo458]

Change the CPU/Mobo to this:

CPU: Intel Core i3-3220 3.3GHz Dual-Core Processor ($107.28 @ CompUSA)
Motherboard: ASRock H77M Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $167.27
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2012-11-24 19:52 EST-0500)

Or this:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-4300 3.8GHz Quad-Core Processor ($129.00 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: ASRock 970 Extreme3 ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($69.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $198.99
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2012-11-24 19:53 EST-0500)

Is it possible to turn off the hd integrated graphics on the Intel i3?

[MCMXCIX]

Is it possible to turn off the hd integrated graphics on the Intel i3?

Yep. Most of the time you just have to do an easy switch in the BIOS.

And don't forget the OS. A lot of people make their builds with a specific budget, and then forget Windows.

[Pojo458]

Yep. Most of the time you just have to do an easy switch in the BIOS.

And don't forget the OS. A lot of people make their builds with a specific budget, and then forget Windows.

My school offers windows 7 for free

[at05gt]

My school offers windows 7 for free

Same here gotta love College. I got 8 as well along with Server 2003 2008 and the whole load of Office products

[Faithh]

Yep. Most of the time you just have to do an easy switch in the BIOS.

And don't forget the OS. A lot of people make their builds with a specific budget, and then forget Windows.

Well you'll have the lovely program Lucid virtu.. It's not needed to disable the IGP in the bios though.

Without lucid or enabled in IGP, it's not going to act annoying and interfer your games or browsing and you won't see the Intel IGP's driver in the system tray while you use a dedicated graphics card.

[Pojo458]

Well you'll have the lovely program Lucid virtu.. It's not needed to disable the IGP in the bios though.

Without lucid or enabled in IGP, it's not going to act annoying and interfer your games or browsing and you won't see the Intel IGP's driver in the system tray while you use a dedicated graphics card.

Interesting,

Will the fact that the i3 is dual core be a problem when the recommended requirements for some games are a quad or more core cpu?

[yurano]

Will the fact that the i3 is dual core be a problem when the recommended requirements for some games are a quad or more core cpu?

An i3 is 2 physical cores and 2 virtual hyperthread cores. An i5-3570K + Z77 mobo is probably out of budget so the only quad-core alternative would be AMD. The downside of AMD is that they have worse 2-core performance although their 4-core performance is pretty good. Since most games are only 2 threads, i3s are recommended over AMD 4+ core CPUs for gaming.

[Faithh]

Interesting,

Will the fact that the i3 is dual core be a problem when the recommended requirements for some games are a quad or more core cpu?

Most games are only making use of two cores and the i3 will perform equally to an i5 (@ stock speed) there