Budget Gaming PC ~$550

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Skreedles

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Put the wrong ram down thanks for catching that.
 
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You won't be maxing BF4 with a 260x, that's for sure. It's roughly as powerful as the GTX 560 which will handle BF4 at medium high settings pretty well

That mobo isn't really good for overclocking as well, so you'd want a better mobo if you plan to overclock the 6300 in future

Might wanna consider a CPU cooler as well, no real loss of performance with a single stick of 8GB DDR3 at the moment since you'll be running a dedicated GPU, this will also ensure that you have maximum ram upgradeability in the future when you need it

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2uAyJ
 
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I know more than the common sea turtle about computers but not a lot, isn't it a little better to have seperate ram cards?
Second! Will I be able to upgrade this rig in say a year?
 
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You won't need that extra dual channel performance unless you're running integrated graphics like an AMD APU, though certainly you'd ideally want a dual channel kit, the price of RAM has certainly skyrocketed recently

Yeah you should be fine with upgrading in a year or so, the 660 should last you well beyond a year at least

Maybe in a year you could add in an SSD for quick OS booting, a better CPU cooler for overclocking or something along those lines
 
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go with his idea
 
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Noob question alert!
So my understanding of overclocking is: you allow a certain part of the computer to use more power than it typically does so that it can run better, but this can also put strain on certain parts of the pc and may cause failure meaning you need to add more cooling so the pc doesn't overheat...Is this right?
And if so what are the true benefits of overclocking?
BT the games I hope to play are: Rome total war 2, Minecraft, a bunch of old games made years ago, ESO(When it comes out), Fall out 3, Skyrim.
 
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Power and temperatures start rising when you start playing with the voltages, you can still achieve a small but stable overclock using stock voltages if I recall correctly

When the time comes just read up a guide and you should be fine (or post a question in the CPU section of this forum to ask fellow users for their overclocked settings etc.), though only overclock when you have gotten a new cooler like the CM Hyper 212 EVO

The benefits would be that you'd get better performance in CPU intensive applications and games, as well as helping to alleviate some "bottleneck" any future GPU upgrade will bring

Generally the motto would be that if you're already happy with the performance that you get in games, then just stick with it, when newer games start running less than ideal, you could overclock for that extra performance
 
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