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    Re: The super budget 1080p / 60fps gaming rig

    Quote Originally Posted by DanceswithUnix View Post
    I'm amazed that GPU only has a single 6 pin PCIe connector on it, most of the GPUs in the house here are dual 6 pin with mine a dual 8 pin. My son's PC (a Dell Xeon workstation that can't have the PSU replaced) has a SATA to PCIe power conversion cable in it which seems to work but has always worried me a bit, so to keep options more open in the future personally I would try and get a PSU with at least dual 6 pin connectors.
    Powercolor also made an RX480 8GB which used a single power connector.

    The cooler shroud looks the same as the RX470 I had too.

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    Re: The super budget 1080p / 60fps gaming rig

    Quote Originally Posted by cptwhite_uk View Post
    Yeah I might up the budget of the PSU for longevity, we'll see. Thanks for the help once again CAT, will post an update once it's underway.
    It should be a quite capable rig. I wonder how it will compare to your Core i5 3570K and GTX970??


    Quote Originally Posted by cptwhite_uk View Post
    Yeah I might up the budget of the PSU for longevity, we'll see. Thanks for the help once again CAT, will post an update once it's underway.
    It should be a quite capable rig. I wonder how it will compare to your Core i5 3570K and GTX970??

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    Re: The super budget 1080p / 60fps gaming rig

    Quote Originally Posted by CAT-THE-FIFTH View Post
    Powercolor also made an RX480 8GB which used a single power connector. ...
    I believe 1x 6pin is the reference design for the RX 480, which is meant to have a stock TDP of 150W. That said the vast majority of manufactured GPUs nowadays provide power delivery well in excess of stock configurations... apparently anyone buying a discrete GPU must just want MOAR POWWAR, making it nigh on impossible to find low profile and single-slot variants of cards that could easily have them (e.g. there's no good reason for there to be no single slot RX 460s, and low profile should be perfectly doable as well...)

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    Re: The super budget 1080p / 60fps gaming rig

    Quote Originally Posted by scaryjim View Post
    I believe 1x 6pin is the reference design for the RX 480, which is meant to have a stock TDP of 150W. That said the vast majority of manufactured GPUs nowadays provide power delivery well in excess of stock configurations... apparently anyone buying a discrete GPU must just want MOAR POWWAR, making it nigh on impossible to find low profile and single-slot variants of cards that could easily have them (e.g. there's no good reason for there to be no single slot RX 460s, and low profile should be perfectly doable as well...)
    There are low profile and single slot RX460 cards:

    https://www.anandtech.com/show/11133...ards-to-lineup
    https://www.anandtech.com/show/11148...-radeon-rx-460

    Also the launch RX480 cards were using a single 6 pin PCI-E connector but were power limited IIRC,so I suspect it was probably an issue with yields at GF,and over the next year things might have improved.

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    Re: The super budget 1080p / 60fps gaming rig

    Quote Originally Posted by CAT-THE-FIFTH View Post
    There are low profile and single slot RX460 cards...
    I know they exist, but buying one is like pulling hen's teeth. Not unlike the HD 7750 tbh, again there *were* low profile and single slot editions, but they weren't stocked many places and carried a significant premium....

    Meanwhile, all sorts of cards are getting short "itx" versions...

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    Re: The super budget 1080p / 60fps gaming rig

    I'm pretty much settled this will be the final spec, any final suggestions?

    Intel i5-3470 (Quadcore 3.2Ghz stock with 3.6Ghz boost)
    16Gb DDR3 1600mm RAM
    AMD RX470 4Gb (this is about 80% the performance of a GTX1060 for reference, or slightly faster than a 1060 Max-Q)
    500Gb mechanical drive
    Thermaltake Versa H17 (new)
    Corsair CX450 ATX PSU (new)
    Dell Optiplex 3010 desktop sized motherboard / stock cooler
    New copy of Windows 10 Home

    £75 base mobo / hdd / cpu / 8Gb RAM
    £28 for matching 8Gb RAM
    £80 for RX 470
    £28 for case
    £40 for PSU
    £10 for Windows license
    £15 for delivery charges

    £276 total. Maybe another £30 or so to whack in a 250Gb SSD.

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    Re: The super budget 1080p / 60fps gaming rig

    Quote Originally Posted by cptwhite_uk View Post
    I'm pretty much settled this will be the final spec, any final suggestions?

    Intel i5-3470 (Quadcore 3.2Ghz stock with 3.6Ghz boost)
    16Gb DDR3 1600mm RAM
    AMD RX470 4Gb (this is about 80% the performance of a GTX1060 for reference, or slightly faster than a 1060 Max-Q)
    500Gb mechanical drive
    Thermaltake Versa H17 (new)
    Corsair CX450 ATX PSU (new)
    Dell Optiplex 3010 desktop sized motherboard / stock cooler
    New copy of Windows 10 Home

    £75 base mobo / hdd / cpu / 8Gb RAM
    £28 for matching 8Gb RAM
    £80 for RX 470
    £28 for case
    £40 for PSU
    £10 for Windows license
    £15 for delivery charges

    £276 total. Maybe another £30 or so to whack in a 250Gb SSD.
    It looks all good to me.

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