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Hi guys, I'm putting together an AMD build to replace my wife's pc.  I'm planning to replace a 5 year old i7-860 build.  That PC has an old GTX 460, a 5200 rpm drive, and a cd burner.

 

My goals for this are for her to be able to play the games she likes playing, which aren't terribly graphic intensive (currently she's playing goat simulator, torchlight, fallout new vegas, omikron, and a few random adventure games when she has time), but she also does a good deal of digital art as a side job.

 

I don't have a GPU picked because I plan on putting my GTX 760 in it.

 

I don't really have much experience with AMDs so I'm not sure this is the greatest AMD build for the budget I'm looking for (~$500 w/o GPU) so any suggestions or advice would be nice.  The last AMD I built was an Athlon 2700+.

 

I'd go Intel but again, budget is a bit of a blocker.  Though bonus points for someone who can do an i5 build for about the same price, i guess.

 

Thanks for your input!

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you have a cool wife. so 500$USD for everything except for the gpu? 

wow, thats a lot of bees!

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get this and oc the cpu

 
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($94.99 @ NCIX US) 
Motherboard: MSI Z97 Guard-Pro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($94.99 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Corsair XMS 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($69.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Cooler Master N300 ATX Mid Tower Case  ($55.98 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply  ($29.99 @ NCIX US) 
Wireless Network Adapter: Asus PCE-N53 802.11a/b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter  ($28.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $494.91
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-08-20 15:10 EDT-0400
or this if you want it to be cheaper
 
Motherboard: MSI Z97 Guard-Pro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($94.99 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Corsair XMS 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($69.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Cooler Master N300 ATX Mid Tower Case  ($55.98 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply  ($29.99 @ NCIX US) 
Wireless Network Adapter: Asus PCE-N53 802.11a/b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter  ($28.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $424.91
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-08-20 15:11 EDT-0400
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PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/psXNYJ

Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/psXNYJ/by_merchant/

 

CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor  ($129.99 @ Newegg) 

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  ($24.99 @ Newegg) 

Motherboard: ASRock 970 EXTREME4 ATX AM3+ Motherboard  ($94.48 @ OutletPC) 

Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($80.99 @ Amazon) 

Storage: A-Data Premier SP610 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($59.99 @ NCIX US) 

Case: NZXT Source 210 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($34.99 @ Micro Center) 

Power Supply: Corsair Builder 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($29.99 @ Newegg) 

Total: $455.42

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-08-20 15:18 EDT-0400

wow, thats a lot of bees!

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Sorry I am on mobile PcPartpicker.com/p/8FgHqs

EDIT: I got home, here 

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/8FgHqs

Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/8FgHqs/by_merchant/
 
CPU: Intel Core i5-4690 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($209.99 @ NCIX US) 
Motherboard: MSI Z87-G41 PC Mate ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($79.99 @ Newegg) 
Memory: A-Data XPG V1.0 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($74.99 @ NCIX US) 
Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($54.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: NZXT Source 210 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($34.99 @ Micro Center) 
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($34.99 @ NCIX US) 
Total: $489.94
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-08-20 20:03 EDT-0400

wow, thats a lot of bees!

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get this and oc the cpu

 
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($94.99 @ NCIX US) 
Motherboard: MSI Z97 Guard-Pro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($94.99 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Corsair XMS 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($69.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Cooler Master N300 ATX Mid Tower Case  ($55.98 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply  ($29.99 @ NCIX US) 
Wireless Network Adapter: Asus PCE-N53 802.11a/b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter  ($28.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $494.91
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-08-20 15:10 EDT-0400
or this if you want it to be cheaper
 
Motherboard: MSI Z97 Guard-Pro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($94.99 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Corsair XMS 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($69.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Cooler Master N300 ATX Mid Tower Case  ($55.98 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply  ($29.99 @ NCIX US) 
Wireless Network Adapter: Asus PCE-N53 802.11a/b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter  ($28.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $424.91
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-08-20 15:11 EDT-0400

 

I like your first build.  Is the Pentium-G really going to work better OC'd than an AMD at those speeds?

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get this and oc the cpu

 
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($94.99 @ NCIX US) 
Motherboard: MSI Z97 Guard-Pro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($94.99 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Corsair XMS 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($69.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Cooler Master N300 ATX Mid Tower Case  ($55.98 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply  ($29.99 @ NCIX US) 
Wireless Network Adapter: Asus PCE-N53 802.11a/b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter  ($28.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $494.91
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-08-20 15:10 EDT-0400
or this if you want it to be cheaper

 
Motherboard: MSI Z97 Guard-Pro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($94.99 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Corsair XMS 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($69.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Cooler Master N300 ATX Mid Tower Case  ($55.98 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply  ($29.99 @ NCIX US) 
Wireless Network Adapter: Asus PCE-N53 802.11a/b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter  ($28.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $424.91
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-08-20 15:11 EDT-0400

 

No offense, but I am strongly against that h100i for a pentium, even if you can oc it. The h100i deserves better imho, maybe get a better chip or dual channel ram instead?

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No offense, but I am strongly against that h100i for a pentium, even if you can oc it. The h100i deserves better imho, maybe get a better chip or dual channel ram instead?

i have a cheaper option that have has a hyper 212 evo, 

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