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I just created this account. Ive seen alot of post with questions coming from this forum so what the hell might as well ask everyone what they think.
My Build is a budgeted build but no set budget like just 500 or 600 dollars.
I live in Europe more exactly Portugal and we work with euros.
Taking that in account I ask my european fellows what's a recommended website to buy components on the cheap side with low to no price of delivery.
Im thinking of buying through Amazon.co.uk. Its free to send all the parts to Portugal since all the parts are 25£+.

The build is:
CPU - FX 6300 or Athlon II X4 750K CPU, both amd
Motherboard - Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 (AMD3+) or MSI FM2-A75MA-E35 (FM2) both mATX
GPU - R9 270x Maybe the ASUS one.
Power Supply - 3 in mind: Corsair CX500, EVGA 500B or Cooler Master G600W
RAM - Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB)
HDD - WD Caviar Blue 1TB
Case - CiT Neptune

Note: I have no intention of overclocking.
The questions are:
What is the recommended CPU taking Performance/Price in acount.
What manufacturer of GPU do you guys recommend.
And of those 3, what PSU?

Feel free to add and recommend other parts not on the list.
 
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geofelt
Your build looks reasonable to me.

Assuming your build is for gaming, budget 2x the cpu cost for your graphics card. It is that important.

Here is one list of psu quality tiers:
http://www.eggxpert.com/forums/thread/323050.aspx

Today, I will not build without a SSD. It makes everything you do feel quicker.
Consider deferring on the hard drive and use a 120gb ssd. That will hold the os and a handful of games. It is easy to add a hard drive later.
Samsung evo and intel would be my picks.
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Your build looks reasonable to me.

Assuming your build is for gaming, budget 2x the cpu cost for your graphics card. It is that important.

Here is one list of psu quality tiers:
http://www.eggxpert.com/forums/thread/323050.aspx

Today, I will not build without a SSD. It makes everything you do feel quicker.
Consider deferring on the hard drive and use a 120gb ssd. That will hold the os and a handful of games. It is easy to add a hard drive later.
Samsung evo and intel would be my picks.
 
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JohnyGPTSOAD

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Im thinking of adding an SSD but not now. I Dont mind the loading times of everything but right now an SSD is not something im considering.
Also are you saying i should budget the GPU twice the price of the CPU?
 
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A good rule of thumb for a balanced gamer is to spend about twice the cpu budget on the graphics card.

It is much easier to add a hard drive later for expansion later than it is to reinstall everything to convert to a ssd.
A ssd helps much more than loading and boot times. it is 50x faster in random I/o than a good hard drive. A one hour windows update or install, for example will take 15 minutes.
Files open instantly. Once you have one, you will never go back.
 
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But now for the GPU: Im thinking either MSI or ASUS. What do you recomend?


 
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I'd get an ASUS GPU but that's my personal preference (brand preference) altogether.
 
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