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    1080p/1440p Is it possible to game at these resoultions?

    in Graphics Cards

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    Overclock your fx 6300 -- what cooler do you have? -- and you're set for 1080p high/ultra in 95% of games. Ultra without MSAA, that is.

     

    With my specs (in signature -- very similar to yours, bit slower), I can get 60fps minimum in Far Cry 3 Ultra @ 1080p, Borderlands 2 & Pre-sequel work decently with a bit of lag if PhysX is at or above medium, TF2 can run on a toaster and so can CS/CS:GO.

    I have a Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO

    400$ Prebuilt Gaming PC Help

    in New Builds and Planning

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    I agree. OP, most people will tell you exactly this. $400 is enough for a budget gaming PC, and probably better than whatever that pre-built had. Make sure they send back the 760, though.

    The pre-built was an awesome value. It came with 8GB 1866MHz RAM, 4GHz AMD A6 6400K and some other stuff that I can't remember the name of. I tried building the same build on PCPartPicker and it came off more expensive. Not by a lot but by like 50$ and I'm not rich so I'd like to save as much as possible. Also, what do you mean by return the 760? Are you suggesting I should get the 280? 

    400$ Prebuilt Gaming PC Help

    in New Builds and Planning

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      Okay. My profile has posted a lot of posts that really don't make sense at a quick glance but I can explain. If you don't feel like reading the paragraph 

    then you can skip it, I only need help with finding a 400$ Pre-Built PC. It doesn't have to be new but I does have to have the following specs or better: Decent CPU/APU, (3.7GHz minimum), 1TB HDD, 8GB 1600MHz+ DDR3 RAM, Decent sized mobo that can fit 2 Nvidia GTX 760 cards. You can look anywhere that's not craigslist and I won't pick anything up. If there's any DIY Super Combos on Newegg let me know and mostly thank you for the help. 

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        I was saving up for a PC for the last 3 years and I spend money a lot for things I don't need. I end up impulse buying a bunch of stuff I don't really need thus lowering my initial budget for my first gaming PC. I ended up with a budget of 700$ to spend so I bought a 400$ Pre-Built Gaming PC of a seller on Amazon known as maxxxelectronics and I had 200$ to spend on some instant upgrades so I spent them on a 760 ( I know I could of gotten a 280 but peer pressure said otherwise) and a 600 watt PSU. They apparently didn't want any business with Amazon so they made us cancel our order and buy it off of eBay. So we did and It took a while but It finally arrived. I hooked it up and to my nuclear disappointment it didn't work. After some time I guessed the PSU was broken so I asked maxxxelectronics what to do and told them I had a spare PSU and could change them but he suggested to send it back. He sent me a shipping label through Gmail and I printed it and sent it on its way. It's been a month since I ordered it and about 2 weeks since we sent it back and we checked the tracking number and apparently they didn't even pick up the package so I'm doing my best of trying to cancel the order and find a good replacement. Thanks for reading.

    CPU choosing help.

    in CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory

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    fx6300 is good for the money and decent for multi treaded stuffs

     

    but in some games like MMO which are CPU dependent and single treaded

     

    it will trip itself and will run much slower than the i3 or the Pentium

    I'm not gonna do much MMO's unless you count Dota 2 and LOL. Let me just make sure that the i3 can stream games, play games ,and edit videos in nice collaboration with my 760 better than my AMD A6 6400K

    CPU choosing help.

    in CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory

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    i5 will blow your 200 dollar budget easily

     

     
    CPU: Intel Core i3-4150 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($111.29 @ NCIX US) 
    Motherboard: ASRock Z97M Anniversary Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($86.97 @ Newegg) 
    Total: $198.26
    Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
    Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-08-20 04:40 EDT-0400
     
    the i3 is still a decent CPU
     
    with the Z97 you can get your i5 Broadwell CPU later when it appears in the market next year

     

    Can the i3 handle video editing and gaming? I also hate MicroATX form factor motherboards as they are too small and ugly and don't support SLI, which is something i'm planning in the future

    CPU choosing help.

    in CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory

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    I've posted before about this topic but got helpful yet mixed results that were OK I guess but I need a more in depth solution to my "problem". There's a long story to this but I'm gonna make it as short as possible. I bought a my first gaming PC on eBay for about 400$. These were the specs: AMD A6 6400K 3.9 GHz 8470D APU, 8GB DDR3 RAM, 1TB HDD, and a small microATX motherboard ,and some crappy little PSU worth literally 18$. I was a good deal I thought so I bought it along with a GTX 760 and a 600W PSU. The PC arrived broken so I sent it back. There's way more to this story than what I just said/typed but since I know the 6400K+760 will bottleneck out the ass I need help choosing a good CPU to upgrade to. I'm on a budget so 200$ is my absolute max. I've looked at a few of the FX series CPUs from AMD and have been thinking about an i5. FYI this PC is for gaming and video editing. Any suggestions for it would be great. Before you say I need more RAM I am gonna buy 8 more gigs of RAM. Thanks. 

    Help with bottlenecking and CPU + 400$ Gaming Laptop?

    in CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory

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    Well the A6 will bottleneck, you can oc the cpu to minimize the bottlenecking between the cpu and gpu. Well 400 dollars isn't any good for a gaming laptop, 800 dollars or more is what you would spend on a good gaming laptop. Unless you want to play those console exclusive games on xbox one then don't buy a xbox one. Use that money for a upgrade in your pc. 

    Will use 400$ for upgrades. Thanks.  :)

    Help with bottlenecking and CPU + 400$ Gaming Laptop?

    in CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory

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    Here's the story. I'll try to make it as short as possible. I've been saving up for a PC and bought one on eBay but something went wrong and they asked me to buy it on Amazon. So I got a refund and bought it on Amazon. The PC came about 5 days later and these are the specs: AMD A6 6400K, 8GB 1600mhz Crucial Ballistix RAM and a MicroATX motherboard that I don't know the name of. I planned to upgrade it with a GTX 760 and a 600W PSU from Corsair. The PC's power supply was broken so we sent it back and it hasn't arrived yet. I'm just wondering how bad of a bottleneck it will be with a AMD A6 6400K and a GTX 760. And if it's really bad what CPU should I get. I'm on a tight budget and won't go above 200$. I also am planning on spending about 400$ on either a gaming laptop either as powerful or more powerful than my other option, the Xbox One. Thanks for reading this.

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