Okay, thank you all for your help, greatly appreciated!

Ah brilliant, thank you for your help! Happy to hear that there isn't too many faults with my build as it stands.

I assume if I was to opt for 2 RX480's instead, I could still go with my current build alongside a 750W PSU?

Ah, unfortunately I have no clue when it comes to PSU's specifically. Another one was looking at was this - Seasonic X750 750W 80+ Gold Certified PSU Full Modular Jap Caps DBB Fan

Any better?

Alright, for the PSU I have found this - Corsair Builder Series 750W CS750M ATX/EPS Semi-Modular 80 Plus Gold Power Supply Unit.

It's 750W as I am planning to add another card, most likely another 280x (I found some cheap ones). Would it be recommended that I make the jump to platinum?

Depending on the timing of this I may wait it out and get the RX480's.

Thanks for the help so far!


Thanks! Am I right in understanding that a 600W PSU would suffice for this rig?

Hi guys, I've decided to try out ETH mining for the fun of it, and after some research and looking around I've compiled a list of hardware I will purchase. I just wanted some opinions on improvements/changes to the build, without leaving the price range too much. (Apologies if this is the wrong sub-section for this topic!)

Any help is very much appreciated, thanks!

Here is my current to-buy list:

GPU - Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 280X DUAL-X OC 3GB Graphics Card
RAM - Ballistix Sport 8GB Kit (4GBx2) DDR3 1600 MT/s (PC3-12800) UDIMM 240-Pin Memory
SSD - Kingston Digital 120GB SSDNow V300 SATA 3 2.5 (7mm height)
Proc. -  Intel BX80646G3240 - Pentium Dual Core (G3240) 3.1GHz Processor 3MB L3 Cache 5GT/s Bus Speed
Mobo - ASRock H81 Pro BTC Motherboard (Intel H81, DDR3, S-ATA 600, ATX, PCI Express 2.0, USB 3.0, Socket 1150)

Any improvements? And what PSU would you guys recommend?

PS. Fairly new to building my own rigs, so there may even be some conflicting hardware!