Not bad... maybe a 8/10....
Also, don't type in caps... it's quite painful to read...

1. Better quality PSU
2. SSD...

Seasonic S12II...

But it's well worth the money...
Yup, the monitor has been discontinued... Though storm88 do have some stocks left...

Want even more compact?


Silverstone RVZ01...

Seasonic>Super Flower>Corsair>FSP...

The Super Flower unit is known for using cheap grade caps... (..and I don't think we have 650W SF units here...)

Nothing wrong... though I'm concern about the long term... the out of spec ripple suppression is quite concerning, and may end up causing errors in your rig...

GPU errors, crashing....

Yup, though you still need to consider drivers.... and the GPU itself...

Unfortunately, if you are going with mini-ITX, you are already reducing upgradibility...

Xeon E3-1230v3 -RM789
ASUS B85M-G-RM285
Kingston 2x8GB Value 1600-RM478
WD Caviar Blue 1TB-RM189
Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X-RM1699 (lingloong@Garage Sales)
Seasonic S12II 620W-RM285
NZXT Switch 210-RM159
LiteOn DVD Writer-RM60
Dell U2312HM-RM560 (storm88@Garage Sales)
Total: RM4504

Prices from lingloong, CyntrixTech and Idealtech@Garage Sales. I did not include a mouse and keyboard combo, though you may consider downgrading the RAM to 8GB to allocate some of your budget for a mouse and keyboard.

Then downgrade to a R9 280X Vapor-X lo... and splurge the remaining for a SSD...

Well, they are almost on par... Though the 770 is RM200-300 more expensive than the 280X...

Usage? If you are going for integrated GPU... The APU is a good one...
Note that the A10 chip may require high speed RAMs as the integrated graphics take advantage on high speed RAMs.


This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Feb 2 2014, 07:23 PM

Then an APU should be fine...

If you have no intentions of overclocking.... consider the Xeon instead....

Xeon E3-1230v3-RM789 (storm88@Garage Sales)
ASUS B85M-G-RM285
Kingston 1x8GB Value 1600-RM239
WD Caviar Blue 1TB-RM189
Zotac GTX770 AMP-RM1399 (GBros@Garage Sales)
NZXT Source 210-RM179 (GBros@Garage Sales)
Seasonic S12II 620W-RM299 (Idealtech@Garage Sales)
LiteOn DVD Writer-RM60
Dell U2312HM IPS monitor-RM560 (storm88@Garage Sales)
Total: RM3999

Unfortunately, no.
Maybe a Celeron/Intel NUC may do the trick...
Summoning lex for further information...

A watercooling setup at this price would take up a sizeable chunk of your budget, and they can be outperformed by air coolers in terms of thermal and acoustic performance. Custom watercooling aren't cheap either and they require regular maintenance...

The FX-6300 is no match for the i5/i7 in single threaded performance.. For your usage, consider a Xeon E3...

Build port with HDMI? I assume that you wanted a motherboard with HDMI... most boards should have one.. even if the board doesn't come with HDMI, you can always use a discrete card...

Thermaltake unit.. They have a lot of good and very bad ones. What is the exact make and model of that Thermaltake unit?

Looks good, though I'd pay RM50 more for a Seasonic S12II 620W... It's a bronze rated unit, but it comes with Japan caps instead of some CapXon on the SF unit.

The trouble is cost... AMD builds here are no cheaper than Intel's equivalent....
Not to mention the FX-8xxx requires a mid-high/high end board to handle as budget boards do not have adequate power phase to handle them...

Even APUs are not viable here as the total cost can net you a i3+discrete card... APUs are not viable unless if you intend to use the integrated GPU, or if your are building a rig with very small space where discrete cards are not possible.