PCAllen
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My mum gave me a budget of 500. I went slightly over when accounting for some delivery charges. Way under if you ignore that Windows 7 cost 69.99 on Amazon. So really this build in terms of hardware cost 450 when it was new in 2014.
I don't regret my choice to go with the FX-4300. At the time my intel alternative was the legendary G3258. An anniversary edition Pentium that was reported to have been overclocked to as high as 4.7Ghz but the 2 core 2 threads gave me some red flags in 2014 when some games at the time wouldn't even launch; but boy could it play minecraft. Meanwhile the FX-4300 launched whatever I threw at it till 2019 when some games started requiring 6 cores.
I got a gaming laptop for university with a 6 core 12 thread i7 and a 1660 Ti handed my PC over to my little brother. In that time, it's had an FX-6300 and finally FX-8320. With a PSU upgrade (to a modular EVGA G3 750W then down to a Corsair CV 650W non-modular when I had to repurpose the G3 for a more power hungry GCN based build ), I could finally use a GTX 980 I had acquired from a friend of a friend from the kindness of his heart.
A few years down the line the PC now has an AMD FX 8320 @4.2GHz and a GTX 980, 16GB of Chinese RAM, the same 120GB SSD and the second 1TB HDD (the Seagate barracuda died and was replaced by a WD Blue 1TB).
Part Reviews
CPU Cooler
For a cheap cooler, it managed to OC my CPU to a stable 4.2.
Storage
Pros: Well, It's an SSD. That's it. Cons: Its only a couple of MB's faster than a HDD if you buy the 120 GB model. Disappointing.
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