Looking for Critique

[MajesticGopher]

Is there anything I'm missing? Any obvious upgrades for a similar price?

 

I'm looking to run today's popular games at high FPS at High quality on one 1920x1080 Monitor

Budget is 600 USD (Can go slightly above if there is a good reason!)

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/list/Rh2tJV

 

Any critique will be noted and appreciated

[TriFlix Films]

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[MajesticGopher]

Just fixed it

[Sakkura]

The Kingston V300 is pretty bad, and the GTX 960 is poor value for money.

[MajesticGopher]

What do you suggest instead?

[Sakkura]

You could replace the SSD with an Adata SP550; the 120GB version is cheaper yet faster, and the 240GB version only costs a little more. And for the graphics card, either an R9 380 or at least one of the 4GB GTX 960s that are around the same price level. Stretching to an RX 480 would also be very nice, but I think that's going to hurt your budget. It's too bad the RX 470 isn't available yet, it's probably going to be perfect for a budget like yours.

[MajesticGopher]

I'm still saving for this build, do you know when the RX 470 will be available?

[Windows7ge]

For general web browsing and non-graphic or compute heavy tasks it seems fine. However if you wanted to do something that requires computational power I'd recommend a quad core and if performing graphic design or video games I'd recommend a dedicated GPU.

[Sauron]

this has better value imo

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4170 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($114.89 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: ASRock H97 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($65.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: PNY Anarchy 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($23.98 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($68.23 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($47.49 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 380 2GB ITX Compact Video Card  ($173.98 @ Newegg) 
Case: Corsair SPEC-01 RED ATX Mid Tower Case  ($39.99 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: EVGA 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($34.99 @ Amazon) 
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit  ($84.99 @ NCIX US) 
Total: $654.52
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-07-06 11:40 EDT-0400

[givingtnt]

13 minutes ago, MajesticGopher said:

Is there anything I'm missing? Any obvious upgrades for a similar price?

 

I'm looking to run today's popular games at high FPS at High quality on one 1920x1080 Monitor

Budget is 600 USD (Can go slightly above if there is a good reason!)

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/list/Rh2tJV

 

Any critique will be noted and appreciated

get windows here : https://www.reddit.com/r/microsoftsoftwareswap/comments/42wm9r/h_windows_7_8_81_10_windows_server_office_visio/
buy windows 7 and upgrade before the end of the month (26th)

 

save 60$
get a i5 4670k / 4690k cpu

[MajesticGopher]

7 minutes ago, Sauron said:

this has better value imo

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4170 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($114.89 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: ASRock H97 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($65.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: PNY Anarchy 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($23.98 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($68.23 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($47.49 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 380 2GB ITX Compact Video Card  ($173.98 @ Newegg) 
Case: Corsair SPEC-01 RED ATX Mid Tower Case  ($39.99 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: EVGA 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($34.99 @ Amazon) 
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit  ($84.99 @ NCIX US) 
Total: $654.52
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-07-06 11:40 EDT-0400

Is that SSD so much better for the price than http://pcpartpicker.com/product/gf98TW/a-data-internal-hard-drive-asp550ss3240gmc if so, why?

 

[SageOfSpice]

I'm thinking if you go about it carefully, you can probably cram an RX 480, AND an i5 in there which is going to give you significantly better performance. 

 

Give me a second to throw together a build.

[Sauron]

2 minutes ago, MajesticGopher said:

Is that SSD so much better for the price than http://pcpartpicker.com/product/gf98TW/a-data-internal-hard-drive-asp550ss3240gmc if so, why?

 

[MajesticGopher]

5 minutes ago, Sauron said:

Thanks man! very helpful

[MajesticGopher]

27 minutes ago, SageOfSpice said:

I'm thinking if you go about it carefully, you can probably cram an RX 480, AND an i5 in there which is going to give you significantly better performance. 

 

Give me a second to throw together a build.

Are you still working on it or have you given up lolol?

 

[Sakkura]

4 hours ago, MajesticGopher said:

I'm still saving for this build, do you know when the RX 470 will be available?

A few weeks maybe? There's no solid info on when.