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Processor-Intel i3 7th gen 7100
Motherboard-Gigabyte-GA-H110M-S2 socket LGA1151
Graphics card-Asus ROG STRIX radeon RX460 4GB OC edition
RAM-HyperX Fury black 8GB 2133Mhz Cl14 DIMM DDR4
Power- Corsair VS Series VS450 watt SMPS
HDD- Western digital blue 1TB drive

 

Planning for a budget PC and here is my config,can i change the gpu? Is that okay? Can i go for this? 

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1-Change the PSU, its abysmal actually:

2- Get the G4560 and the RX 470 or the 1050Ti if you can't afford the rx 470. The i3 7100 doesn't offer the best value here.

3- Make sure that this board is updated for kaby lake CPUs (7000 series) by asking the retailer, if it isn't look for one that is.

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1. Get better PSU

2. Why not Pentium G4560 for almost half the price of i3 7100 while only sacrificing 200MHz clock speed?

3. Get better GPU like 1050TI or RX 470/570 or RX 480/580

Desktop specs:

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AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB Gigabyte B550M DS3H mATX

Asrock Challenger Pro OC Radeon RX 6700 XT Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (8Gx2) 3600MHz CL18 Kingston NV2 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD

Montech Century 850W Gold Tecware Nexus Air (Black) ATX Mid Tower

Laptop: Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro 16ACH6

Phone: Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro 8+128

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i3 7100 doesn't offer the best value no matter you will upgrade it in the future or not. It's neither as cheap and cheerful as the G4560 or a quad core like the i5. In fact, you should wait for Ryzen 3 which gives more performance with less or similar money. If you want to stick with Intel though, use the previous generation, namely G4400. Slightly worse than G4560 in performance, a bit cheaper.

Motherboard is ok for a budget build, as long as an intel cpu is used. Both skylake and kaby lake work on it. BTW there seems to be two versions of the Gigabyte-GA-H110M-S2, so make sure yours support DDR4 by looking at the spec sheet or the features list on the box.

An expensive RX460 like this is not recommended. If you have the money go for an RX 470 which has much better value. If you don't, go for a 2GB RX 460 that is cheap. RX 550 2GB can also be considered if its performance is good enough for you. Just search for reviews in the internet.

RAM is fine

Check this link for PSU. Better get PSU tier 4 or above. Your Corsair VS is at tier 6 BTW

HDD is fine.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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Thanks a lot guys for all your replies in helping me out in this..i was still thinking to go for gtx 1050 seems to be a good one for me.Any diff between 1050 and 1050ti and 2gb is enough for this PSU? And which is the better one EVGA,Zotac ?Due to budget i have to go for this build maybe ill upgrade later,Now if you guys can help me in changing any of the components and make this is as a value for money that would be really helpful for me.

Thanks and regards

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Prices depends on where you live though, so it's hard to specify which manufacturer's card is the best value to you.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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