My first pc help

[bigben10001]

Hello, I am planning on building my first gaming pc. I came across the AMD FX-6300 and the EVGA GeForce GTX 960. I found these reasonably priced, and they stayed in my price range of around 500 dollars. But when I went to go look for a motherboard I could not find a board that would support AM3+ and PCie 3.0. So my question is does the motherboard need to support PCie 3.0, which the GPU has in the interface requirements? Also, is there certain deals that I should look for to help me build my first gaming pc? Overwatch and CSGO are my two most played games.

[Electronics Wizardy]

This would be much better http://pcpartpicker.com/list/ctQdFd

 

 

Id stay away from amd for now. You can mix and match pcie versions

[Herman Mcpootis]

no need, it won't bottleneck. but you shoudln't get an fx 6300 anyways. do you need os/monitor/peripherals?

[Zyndo]

9 minutes ago, bigben10001 said:

Hello, I am planning on building my first gaming pc. I came across the AMD FX-6300 and the EVGA GeForce GTX 960. I found these reasonably priced, and they stayed in my price range of around 500 dollars. But when I went to go look for a motherboard I could not find a board that would support AM3+ and PCie 3.0. So my question is does the motherboard need to support PCie 3.0, which the GPU has in the interface requirements? Also, is there certain deals that I should look for to help me build my first gaming pc? Overwatch and CSGO are my two most played games.

you don't need pcie 3.0 to use a pcie 3.0 card. any PCIe slot will work, the generation merely affects how much bandwidth is available, and pcie bandwidth is largely irrelevant when it comes to gaming loads.

 

That being said I would not get a fx6300 or gtx 960. They're outdated and irrelevant. You should be looking for a build more along these lines: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/bbwYWX

 

1050ti is comming out later this month. You could always look at an RX460, 470, or 480 though if you wanted to buy now.

[Herman Mcpootis]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($110.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: ASRock H110M-HDS Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($49.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($35.98 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Sandisk SSD PLUS 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($40.46 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Hitachi Deskstar 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($37.50 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: XFX Radeon RX 470 4GB Triple X Video Card  ($174.98 @ Newegg) 
Case: Fractal Design Core 1000 USB 3.0 MicroATX Mid Tower Case  ($24.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Power Supply: Corsair CXM 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($25.00 @ Newegg) 
Total: $499.88
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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