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Budget Range: $600 MAX ON NEW COMPONENTS (already own some components)

System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming, Browsing Web, Some Adobe CS6 products

Parts to Upgrade: CPU, Graphics Card, Maybe Case and anything else recommended to upgrade or not compatible

Do you need to buy OS: No (currently running Windows 8 Pro 64 Bit

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Amazon, Newegg, TigerDirect

Overclocking: Maybe

Your Monitor Resolution: 1920 x 1080

Additional Comments: Living in Dubai so products will be shipped with Shop & Ship

And Most Importantly, Why Are You Upgrading: Havn't had an upgrade for a while and with new games such as BF4 coming out (BF4 Beta lags) i'll need a better rig to play with.

Current Rig
OS: Windows 8 Pro 64 Bit

CPU and Motherboard: Asus M4A88T-V EVO USB3 Motherboard and AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Quad Core CPU Bundle

RAM: Corsair CMX4GX3M1A1333C9 XMS3 4GB DDR3 RAM - PC10666, 1333MHz, 4096MB

GPU: ASUS ENGTX550 TI DC TOP/DI/1GD5 GeForce GTX 550 Ti DirectCU TOP Video Card - 1GB, GDDR5, PCI-Express 2.0 (x16), HDMI, DVI, VGA, DirectX 11, Dual-Slot, SLI Ready, Overclocked

Case: XION Vantage Mid-Tower Case AXP100-001BK - ATX, mATX

Hard Drives: 1 Old 80GB HDD for operating system and Newer Seagate 1TB HDD (Forgot Names)

PSU: OCZ ModXStream Pro Power Supply - 600-Watt, Modular, Dual +12V Rails, SATA, 80Plus


New Parts
GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX650Ti Boost SuperClocked 2GB GDDR5 192bit, Dual-Link DVI-I, DVI-D, HDMI,DP, SLI Ready Graphics Card

CPU I'm not completly sure yet what CPU will work best with me and what CPUs will work with my current motherboard. Anyways here is a list of what I am thinking about:

AMD FD6300WMHKBOX FX-6300 6-Core Processor Black Edition

AMD FX-4130 Zambezi 3.8GHz Socket AM3+ Quad-Core Desktop Processor FD4130FRGUBOX


ANY HELP IN POWER CONSUMPTION AND MOTHERBOARD COMPATIBILITY WOULD ALSO BE HIGHLY APPRECIATED

Thanks in Advance
 
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With $600, get a i5 3570k/3470k with a h/z77 mobo. It is much, much better then the fx 8350. the 650 ti boost can be replaced by a msi r7850 twin frozr and get another 4gb of corsair vengeance.
 
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Oh yeah and get a asrock z77 extreme7 for the motherboard, and if you can mange, get a cooler master hyper 212 evo if you can extend your budget a bit. If you get the cpu cooler, it will be quieter and you can overclock the i5 easily
 
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Just out of curiosity and price will the cooler master hyper 212 plus work as well as an evo version, also how hard is it to install as this will only be my second pc upgrade

One last thing but would the power be enough for all of my parts and would it be compatible

EDIT: Also since I cant seem to find a asrock z77 extreme7 would a AS Rock LGA1155 Intel Z77 PRO4 be any good?
 
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the pro4 is microatx, so it will be smaller and the hyper 212 plus is slightly worse, but if its significantly cheaper, then get it. Have you loooked on google shopping and on amazon for the extreme7? If you can't then get the pro4, it's almost as good. Installing a cpu cooler isn't that difficult and you can find loads of guides.
 
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I can only seem to find asrock z77 extreme9s or x79 extreme 7. Could you please provide a link to asrock z77 extreme7
 
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This one is even better. http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-P8Z77-V-1155-Intel-Motherboard/dp/B007G51UWY/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1381425202&sr=8-2&keywords=Asus+P8Z77-V
 
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