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building a computer for 500$

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HI GUYS today i'm gonna talk to you about me building a new computer for just 500$;, let's get to the parts:

AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-core CPU

MSI 760GMA-P34(FX) Micro ATX AM3+ Motherboard

G.Skill AEGIS 16GB (2x 8 gb sticks duh) Memory

EVGA Geforce GTX 960 2GB SuperSC ACX 2.0+ GPU

Thermaltake Versa h25 Mid tower case

Thermaltake SMART 650w 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power supply

Total price: 466.66 (without shipping)

now

I could do a bit better with the CPU  and upgrade my video card from 2gb to 4gb but in the end for the cpu isn't compatible with the motherboard so It'd overall be more expensive than what's past my price range

as of now I have one major goal:

Run most modern games in 1080p 60fps in high settings

 

I'm ordering the parts today and they should come soon so I'll benchmark and give you guys the results SOON ok?

 

 

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Dazzgracefulmoon
4 minutes ago, mumboking said:

I think you have 8GB more RAM than you need...

I'd rather have more than the average amount of ram a game will use

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Dazzgracefulmoon

update!!! important update. i upgraded the same video card from 2gb to 4GB. I'm expecting all parts to arrive next week by the looks of it. let's just hope shipping goes to plan and things dont go to h*ck

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mumboking
8 hours ago, Dazzgracefulmoon said:

update!!! important update. i upgraded the same video card from 2gb to 4GB. I'm expecting all parts to arrive next week by the looks of it. let's just hope shipping goes to plan and things dont go to h*ck

A 4GB GTX 960? Better off with a GTX 970... :/

The 960 isn't really powerful enough to make use of all 4GB.

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Dazzgracefulmoon
5 hours ago, mumboking said:

 

The 960 isn't really powerful enough to make use of all 4GB.

how so?

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mumboking
3 hours ago, Dazzgracefulmoon said:

how so?

I'm not good at explaining... There's little to no performance increase by having that extra 2GB on a 960.

A 970 is plain faster...

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Dazzgracefulmoon

well, guess I should have done an extra bit of research huh? oh well. it's not like I'm bound to that video card forever!

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