I just bought what I think is a very good kit at a very good price
I just bought what I think is a very good kit at a very good price
I plan to purchase a kit including a GTX 960 STRIX 2GB, GA-78LMT-USB3 motherboard, HyperX 8GB DDR3 RAM at 1600MHz, and an unlocked AMD FX 8350 at about $150. Is this a solid offer? *apologies, I previously wrote it as 170 but corrected to 150. Edited May 24, 2020 by Nensk*
Offer a few dollars here and there, it's tight. The board is quite basic and came out before FX. The 900 series chipsets handled the FX chips better. I might pay around $5 per core, making it worth roughly $40. The IPC is too low to justify a higher price compared to a Phenom II 1090T doing the same job. Memory is reasonable at the cost. GTX 960, 2GB, similar range of $40 to $50.
It's a bad idea, the VRMs will get too hot if you try to push it beyond its limits