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Could someone find the best cpu mobo and ram combo at the microcenter in colorado at the tech center? My budget is 210, would like decent gaming, looks, and an upgrade path. I was thinking about going with a pentium, a more expensive board, than waiting for kaby lake to release. 

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No living in the usa, but look for a decent b150 board with a i3-6100 cpu. If the price matches, then 1x8Gb RAM.

 

i3-6100

Gigabyte B150-DS3H

8Gb RAM

 

Upgradepath is skylake so no worries there.

I build the above stated system and it performes well, cost was 240€ (Prices in germany, generally higher tha in the us.)

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/XDFcf8

it's 14$ above your budget but that might be in line?
The 2core Pentium have huge problems with stuttering and to point out beforehand, Far Cry 4 and BF One (i think., not sure on this one) won't run on either as they demand a real 4 core cpu. But in 99.9% of the case, the hyperthreaded i3-6100 "fakes" being a 4 core so game run fine.

 

And for upgrade go for the i5-6500. Best price/performance CPU.

 

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