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Hello everyone! It's gonna a bit strange, I've just signed up and I'm already here.

Budget & Location: I live in Romania so it's a bit harder to get cheap and powerful parts for a pc. However it's not impossibile, so I managed to found some parts which are okay for their price. I want to spend 350$ for a pc. I was thinking the AMD Athlon X4 845 with the Nvidia Geforce GT 730 2GB, DDR3, 128bit(I can't change this one), with 8GB of DDR3 memory, for the motherboard the ASUS A68HM-K would be perfect and a 500GB Toshiba HDD would do nicely. Now I have seen some videos about it like how can it handle GTA 5, I've seen some stuttering and all 4 core were used 100%, the guy who made the video had a 750Ti card. So this is main reason of why this topic exist. I could go with the Intel Pentium G4400, but that CPU only has 2 SkyLake cores, I would trust in that 4 cores, but I'm not sure if it would be better than the Intel Pentium G4400. Also if I would go with the Intel CPU I'm gonna need the ASUS B150M-K motherboard, which is more expensive and I have to buy DDR4 Rams.

Aim: I would do some editing, and gaming, mostly gaming. Some GTA 5, Far Cry 3,4, Fallout 4, BioShock and some Tomb Raider. If I'm gonna have to lower the settings a bit, that's okay, a 30-45 fps would be good on theese games.

Monitors: I have a 4:3 60Hz 720p monitor laying around, I don't know the max. resolution, but if it's really important I'm gonna check it if I get home. It's an okay size for me, and I guess I'm gonna have that 30-45 fps, because the monitor don't have a widescreen. I would go with a widescreened one which is not so big but just okay for me, but I can only find expensive and big ones.

Peripherals: I have all the peripherals I need.

Why are you upgrading? It's pretty obvious at this point, that I don't really have that much money, so my pc which I use right now shouldn't be powerful. Well it isn't, it has 2GB of DDR2 memory, a 2 cored Intel Pentium G945, and an integrated Intel Express Chipset Family Graphics card. I've been using this pc for 3 years now. I really love retro games too, so I can play San Andreas, Postal 2, some of the Half Life series,  Counter Strike 1.6, Made Man, Undertale. However some of theese games are getting constant updates, but my card cannot get any. I can barely use it for web browsing and YouTube.

P.S: I am Hungarian but I live Romania, however I love to learn English. Still I am nowhere near perfect.

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PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/XnvzNN
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/XnvzNN/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 845 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($59.99 @ NCIX US) 
Motherboard: ASRock FM2A68M-HD+ Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard  ($49.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Memory: Mushkin ECO2 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($26.49 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($47.49 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 750 Ti 4GB Video Card  ($131.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Case: Raidmax Viper II ATX Mid Tower Case  ($29.99 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($29.98 @ Newegg) 
Total: $375.92
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-08-07 05:56 EDT-0400

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8 minutes ago, Shadow321 said:

Hello everyone! It's gonna a bit strange, I've just signed up and I'm already here.

Budget & Location: I live in Romania so it's a bit harder to get cheap and powerful parts for a pc. However it's not impossibile, so I managed to found some parts which are okay for their price. I want to spend 350$ for a pc. I was thinking the AMD Athlon X4 845 with the Nvidia Geforce GT 730 2GB, DDR3, 128bit(I can't change this one), with 8GB of DDR3 memory, for the motherboard the ASUS A68HM-K would be perfect and a 500GB Toshiba HDD would do nicely. Now I have seen some videos about it like how can it handle GTA 5, I've seen some stuttering and all 4 core were used 100%, the guy who made the video had a 750Ti card. So this is main reason of why this topic exist. I could go with the Intel Pentium G4400, but that CPU only has 2 SkyLake cores, I would trust in that 4 cores, but I'm not sure if it would be better than the Intel Pentium G4400. Also if I would go with the Intel CPU I'm gonna need the ASUS B150M-K motherboard, which is more expensive and I have to buy DDR4 Rams.

Aim: I would do some editing, and gaming, mostly gaming. Some GTA 5, Far Cry 3,4, Fallout 4, BioShock and some Tomb Raider. If I'm gonna have to lower the settings a bit, that's okay, a 30-45 fps would be good on theese games.

Monitors: I have a 4:3 60Hz 720p monitor laying around, I don't know the max. resolution, but if it's really important I'm gonna check it if I get home. It's an okay size for me, and I guess I'm gonna have that 30-45 fps, becouse of this monitor, is not widescreened. I would go with a widescreened one which is not so big but just okay, but I can only find expensive and big ones.

Peripherals: I have all the peripherals I need.

Why are you upgrading? It's pretty obvious at this point, that I don't really have that much money, so my pc which I use right now shouldn't be powerful. Well it is not, it has 2GB of DDR2 memory, a 2 cored Intel Pentium G945, and an integrated Intel Express Chipset Family Graphics card. I've been using this pc for 3 years now. I really love retro games too, so I can play San Andreas, Postal 2, some of the Half Life series,  Counter Strike 1.6, Made Man, Undertale. However some of theese games are getting constant updates, but my card cannot get any. I can barely use it for web browsing and YouTube.

P.S: I am Hungarian but I live Romania, however I love to learn English. Still I am nowhere near perfect.

Can you buy used 

Can you reuse anything from your current pc? (hdd, case)

Yes I would recommend the athlon and not the pentium

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, FanBlade said:

Can you buy used 

Can you reuse anything from your current pc? (hdd, case)

Yes I would recommend the athlon and not the Pentium

If the seller is near my city then yes.

I can't use this case, and there is an 80GB HDD in this pc.

Okay, that helped.

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