Gaming PC

LOL. Thanks for the tip

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430W should do it, btw.
i recommend the brands "Thermaltake", "Corsair" or "BeQuiet!" with the "80 PLUS" seal of approval.

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Glurk

Seems balanced but take 2x4GB instead of 1x8GB, dual channel is always good thing :)

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Yeah, I want to get a 2x4

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Brodin

Do you have an OS already?

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Planning to get W8

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Brodin

Okay then :) I was going to say, if you weren't going to go 64 bit, don't bother with 8 GB. The most 32 bit can use is like... 3.25 if I remember correctly. But yeah, it seems like a pretty solid build :)

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I'm actually going for 64bit

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sviat

FX 6300 can run with 1866 RAM memory, get 1600 at least or 1866, no reason to get 1333 Mhz, actually AMD benefits from more speed RAM, = more fps in games. And graphics imo get Sapphire if its at same price as Gigabyte and has 2Gb, but this not means Gigabyte is bad.

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Thanks for the tip.

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The AMD APUs benefit from faster ram, but I don't think it will affect a regular cpu. Might as well go for 1600 if there isn't too much of a price increase

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may i suggest a small (40-60GB) SSD as your primary (system) drive? smaller SSD's shouldn't cost the world anymore.
Win8 should then boot up in no time.

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I'll see in the next months

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If you don't mind waiting a few extra seconds for boot times and load times I'd leave this out, especially since you're on a budget build

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Yes. I don't mind if it takes 15-20 seconds

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it'll probably be more than just a few "extra seconds".
it's 14sec avg. on a SSD with Win7, but a HDD should be able to get tweaked to about 35seconds (or less, if your mainboard got specific settings for it, which usually requires your PC to be connected to a power source all the time - even after shutting down)

well, there is still stuff to do in the meantime of booting, like making a sandwich. :D
it might be just my personal hate towards waiting. :P

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HDDs - Turning gamers, into master sandwich makers

I usually just leave my pc to turn on whilst I go do something else, then return to have it all booted up. An ssd would be nice, if it was in the budget for my new build, but for now I'd leave it since I'm trying to be cost efficient, just like OP

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I really don't care, i mean, it's 35 seconds. I don't die in 35 seconds (maybe?)

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you'll never know lol.
well, if you ever happen to have 70 bucks and don't know what to do with them: "Solid State Drive"
(btw, i forgot how to make a sandwich, i'm now eating bread and salami seperately.)

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Something like this I think

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Tychades

Heat sinks are almost always included with the CPU if that's what you wanted

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Well, this is the first gaming pc i'm planning to build. I'm very ignorant about this :P

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boxed CPU coolers are terrible for gaming (some games draw enormous resources from your CPU, just to render the shadows...and they mostly look like crap anyways lol), especially if OP is looking forward to overclock.

get a good and cheap air cooler from "Noctua", "Arctic" or "Cooler Master".

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I'm not gonna OC, but I prefer low temperatures

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sviat

The "Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO" is one of the best for the price.

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same here, my rig is rather old now, but i still want it to live as long as possible. :)
it might need to go into turbomode for some games (if you're actually enable it in the BIOS), and if you play for a longer time, you'll get quite the temps with a stock cooler.

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sviat

The included CPU heat sink specially the AMD one is very loud and bad, for a gaming PC you need to buy one CPU cooler.

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Junoh315

Gigabyte is better than Sapphire. No contest.

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tr4656

What? This is entirely wrong.

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Junoh315

Gigabyte has a better build quality. I'm using a Gigabyte GTX 660(factory OC) and it's pretty solid. My mother's video card by Sapphire has a subpar heatsink/fan and the board is thinner. From my experience, Sapphire doesn't use as good of a cooling system. Then again, the factory OC versions have a great cooling system compared to the normal ones.

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tr4656

If you compare a ref cooler and an aftermarket cooler, of course that would be different. However, when comparing Sapphire's custom coolers like the FLEX versions cool better than Gigabyte cards. I don't really see the board being thinner being that much of a complaint. MSI Twin Frozr are still the best cooler though.

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Junoh315

Twin Frozr and Windforce are both top of the line coolers. Still, MSI Afterburner is necessary even if you don't have an MSI card.

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What do you need a heat sink for? The stock heatsink and fan that come with the cpu should be fine unless you specifically want to overclock or have a quieter pc. I would highly recommend this site PCPartPicker for a place to compare prices for parts. Something like this could work. The price and performance of the hard drive and graphics card are better than what you listed above. Add those to the pricing for the cpu and mobo that you listed, with a psu of about 500-550W and a case (I can't really say much on cases) and you've got a great gaming pc, within your price range

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Angrygamer

Oh yeah, and be sure to go ahead and buy yourself an HD monitor. Because as of right now I am using this crappy $40 2002 Dell monitor. And the it has screen tearing for HD and it doesn't even show HD properly. I was forced to switch to the crappy $40 thing, because my $300 gaming monitor overheated and broke. So I recommend investing some money into a monitor.

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SomethingFancy

Wait, you had a $300 monitor but you can only run Medal of Honor at 15 fps? Wouldn't it have been wiser to spend that $300 on a decent computer instead?

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SpartanBully

It's funny.. i have a monitor that's about $300 USD in my country with a cheap 10USD video card. :3
(yah, i can't play big games)

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Raseto

For good PC.. i7 u must pay 700 euros

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