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So I'm putting together a lower end PC for a friend who wants to be able to game at medium setting at 1080.  I had picked him out a GTX 950 and paired it with an intel 4440 on an H81 board with 8 gigs of 1600 ram.  Since I'm not exactly up to speed on some of the other AMD CPUs/chipsets and GPUs...could anyone suggest a better performing setup for roughly the same price.  He has somewhere around 600 bucks to play with.  Thanks for any tips and suggetions

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So I'm putting together a lower end PC for a friend who wants to be able to game at medium setting at 1080.  I had picked him out a GTX 950 and paired it with an intel 4440 on an H81 board with 8 gigs of 1600 ram.  Since I'm not exactly up to speed on some of the other AMD CPUs/chipsets and GPUs...could anyone suggest a better performing setup for roughly the same price.  He has somewhere around 600 bucks to play with.  Thanks for any tips and suggetions

is it in usd

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CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($166.95 @ SuperBiiz) 

Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($41.40 @ SuperBiiz) 

Memory: Kingston 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($36.81 @ SuperBiiz) 



Case: NZXT Source 210 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($32.40 @ SuperBiiz) 

Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($39.99 @ NCIX US) 

Total: $597.03

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

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if its in usd then this will be the best you can get also these parts are just from microcenter, amazon, and newegg PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 
Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($42.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Team Dark 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($34.99 @ Newegg) 
Video Card: PowerColor Radeon R9 290 4GB TurboDuo Video Card  ($232.98 @ Newegg) 
Case: Thermaltake VL80001W2Z ATX Mid Tower Case  ($21.99 @ Micro Center) 
Power Supply: Antec Green 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($54.98 @ Newegg) 
Total: $611.82
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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Yes.

ok then the build i made will be the best and the gpu in it is way better then the 950

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if its in usd then this will be the best you can get also these parts are just from microcenter, amazon, and newegg PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 
Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($42.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Team Dark 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($34.99 @ Newegg) 
Video Card: PowerColor Radeon R9 290 4GB TurboDuo Video Card  ($232.98 @ Newegg) 
Case: Thermaltake VL80001W2Z ATX Mid Tower Case  ($21.99 @ Micro Center) 
Power Supply: Antec Green 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($54.98 @ Newegg) 
Total: $611.82
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-09-06 12:30 EDT-0400

 

 

 

 
CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($166.95 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($41.40 @ SuperBiiz) 
Memory: Kingston 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($36.81 @ SuperBiiz) 
Case: NZXT Source 210 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($32.40 @ SuperBiiz) 
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($39.99 @ NCIX US) 
Total: $597.03
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-09-06 12:30 EDT-0400

 

Great, thanks guys.  Got a few ideas here I hadn't found myself.  Gonna make a few tweaks to these and get him a really nice rig for the money.

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