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danielbradbury

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Approximate Purchase Date: e.g.: this week (the closer the better)

Budget Range: 500$ give or take 50$. Preferably after shipping

System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming, surfing the internet, watching videos, streaming

Are you buying a monitor: No i have one, possibly upgrade down the road.



Parts to Upgrade: Starting from scratch

Do you need to buy OS: Yes

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: (e.g.: newegg.com, ncix.com -- to show us selection & pricing) Newegg, but would lean towards other trusted recommendations

Location: City, State/Region, Country - Madison, Indiana

Parts Preferences: I would like to be able to upgrade video card a couple years down the road.

Overclocking: Not sure??

SLI or Crossfire: Not sure either, could use information on this and overclocking
 
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Thats a tight budget including os. Unfortunately at that budget I'm not the right guy to be able to help you much. I would recommend watching some $500-600 budget builds on youtube to get some ideas. techyescity has quite a few, linustechtips did one recently. Good luck
 
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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 750K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($79.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: MSI FM2-A75MA-E35 Micro ATX FM2 Motherboard ($59.95 @ Amazon)
Memory: Mushkin Silverline 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($69.97 @ NCIX US)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($59.98 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Asus Radeon HD 7790 1GB Video Card ($94.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Silverstone PS08B (Black) MicroATX Mid Tower Case ($29.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 430W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($34.99 @ Microcenter)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 - OEM (64-bit) ($94.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $524.85
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-01-18 01:46 EST-0500)

I modified scooby's build:
-I wouldn't go for the FX-4100. It's based off the Bulldozer architecture which was terrible. Even the older Phenoms were better than Bulldozer processors.
-Cheaper gpu, same performance.
-Added in a case.
-Semi-modular version of the psu.
 
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danielbradbury

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I would need a case still though right? The OS doesn't necessarily need to be in the budget i can get that elsewhere.
 
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danielbradbury

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Would this take another case of choosing? Always wanted one with the lights
 
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The fm 2 chip is a fine cpu but your locked into the fm 2 socket there is no upgrade unless you buy a fm2+ board the highest fm 2 chip is the 6800 k.. Now we have kaveri chips that are fm2+ sockets and I am sure amd will bring another socket after that because they have 3 apus sockets now in such a short time fm1 fm2 and fm2+ the chips was liano, trinity,richland,now kaveri something to think about.
 
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FM2+ Motherboard: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-motherboard-gaf2a88xmd3h

I wouldn't really consider a FX-6300 at this budget if the OP wants an OS in it. If the OS doesn't need to be included, then he can go for this:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor ($109.99 @ TigerDirect)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($79.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: GeIL EVO Veloce Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($62.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($59.98 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Asus Radeon HD 7790 1GB Video Card ($94.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Corsair Graphite Series 230T Black ATX Mid Tower Case ($39.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 430W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($34.99 @ Microcenter)
Total: $482.91
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-01-18 03:00 EST-0500)

-Better quality motherboard using the 970 chipset.
-Great quality case on a good sale. This is actually really impressive at $40. Also has lights, as per OP's request.

And actually, you might want to grab this psu instead: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/corsair-power-supply-cx600m
It's not much more and it has much more watts to handle any upgrades.
 
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danielbradbury

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I like but says there may be a problem being compatible, says i would have to update bios prior to using the cpu, how difficult is that?
 
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realchaos

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It says that, but I doubt you'll need to. Vishera processors were released quite a while ago. Once they were released, all motherboard manufacturers updated the BIOs on their motherboards to support Vishera out of the box before shipping them out to retailers. Only the old motherboards that were in the back room for a really long time would need a bios update, though I doubt they still have any of those.
 
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bleven

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Would this set up need a cpu cooler?
 
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