Upgrade Planning

[spoder-man]

I will be building a system on a very tight budget.

 

With specs:

pentium G3258

Asus Z97 k

120gb ssd

4gb ram

*no dedicated GPU

Corsair SPEC 01

 

REASONS:

-i picked G3258 because its cheap and over clockable.

-stick with stock cooler and will overclock only little until i get an after market heatsink.

-no dedicated gpu because G3258 iGPU can run DotA 2 (im fine with low settings), and other games too at low.

-120gb ssd because i need storage only for OS(win10) and Dota 2. I wont store multiple games

-ASUS Z97 for overclocking and upgradabilty.

 

PLANNED UPGRADES:

CPU - will later be upgraded to an i5-4690k

GPU - will later get a dedicated GPU

STORAGE - will later get 1TB HDD

CPU COOLER - will later get maybe a hyper 212

 

My questions are:

1. what order should i upgrade? or which part should i upgrade first?

2. at what temp should i limit the cpu heat and stop overcloking?

3. If i upgrade the gpu first before the i5, what gpu will i pick that is also ready for the i5?

4. is ASUS Z97 good motherboard?

5. any other suggestions?

 

P.S. I can only save less than $100 a month.

[Starelementpoke]

Whats your budget?

[spoder-man]

Whats your budget?

i am from Philippines, and my total budget is 30,000 pesos including peripherals roughly 650 USD.

prices here tend to be higher than in US. And these parts are what i cant afford right now.

[Starelementpoke]

i am from Philippines, and my total budget is 30,000 pesos including peripherals roughly 650 USD.

prices here tend to be higher than in US. And these parts are what i cant afford right now.

Are you set on overclocking? It can improve performance, but most cpus today are fast enough that you shouldn't need it.

[spoder-man]

Are you set on overclocking? It can improve performance, but most cpus today are fast enough that you shouldn't need it.

i will overclock, for sure.

[Streetguru]

I will be building a system on a very tight budget.

So what's your budget exactly?, because I'd recommend just getting a cheap APU rig, I ran one for a while and it worked great, it could even handle running a game 1080p + 2 more displays

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/vCKsGX

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

CPU: AMD A10-7850K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($119.99 @ NCIX US)

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A68HM-DS2H Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard  ($46.99 @ SuperBiiz)

Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2400 Memory  ($49.89 @ OutletPC)

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($52.33 @ OutletPC)

Case: Fractal Design Core 1100 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  ($29.99 @ NCIX US)

Power Supply: Rosewill HIVE 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($59.99 @ Newegg)

Total: $359.18

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-09 05:13 EDT-0400

It'll be better off than just running a G3258 for sure

 

And for about $50 more you could go for an ITX version of the above

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/wMt6Hx

and if it's literally just a dota 2 machine you could get it for a bit less as well

7850k MAXXED settings dota 2, 1080p 30fps, so dropping the settings is going to get you 60fps no problem

This was my set up

http://i.imgur.com/rtUyXV8.jpg