Building a gaming PC on a $600 budget.

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Metarch

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This is my first build, and after a ton of research and comparison, I think I've built a decent rig for 600 bucks. Any advice before I actually buy this stuff would be appreciated.

http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Metarch/saved/3ELs

A bit of extra information that I've seen requested in a lot of PC building forums is as such; I live in Australia and I'm going to be using this computer for pretty much everything, but particularly gaming. I'm after reasonably good performance within a mid-budget build.
 
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Computer__GUY

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Firstly the 650 ti is a low-end card so don't expect to get much performance out of it. It will play most modern games on medium possibly high settings at 30-40 FPS. Secondly, A-data SSD are very unreliable and besides, I do not recommend that you get an SSD at all so you can save money for a better card. Thirdly, some AMD 970 chipset motherboards may need a BIOS update prior to using Vishera CPUs so look into getting a different motherboard. Lastly, although I am not too familiar with Cooler Master water coolers, I wouldn't get one anyway for this build. If you are going to be overclocking just get a Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo which will be fine but personally for $600 I wouldn't recommend OCing at all. Here is a much better build which I have put together myself:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor ($116.97 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 Micro ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($54.99 @ Microcenter)
Memory: Kingston Blu 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($69.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($59.66 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 760 2GB Video Card ($249.99 @ NCIX US)
Case: NZXT Source 210 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case ($33.91 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($39.99 @ Microcenter)
Total: $625.50
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-02-05 11:43 EST-0500)

This rig will max. out any game you throw at it at a decent 50+ FPS. It's also cheaper!
 
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That build of yours looks brilliant, GUY; the only issue I have is the USB 3 header in the motherboard not having an outlet in the case. Any alternatives?
 
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Icaraeus

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The problem with Computer Guy's build is firstly the price - it's in USD. Australian prices are significantly higher overall - you won't get the same performance as Computer Guy's build for the same price. Also, Amazon doesn't ship to Australia and EBay does price things relatively high (Inc. Shipping). For Computer Guy's build you're looking at spending $800+.

Go to http://www.pccasegear.com.au and look at the different items there and the prices, then get a rough build. Then we could go from there. For $600 you won't be able to max out the new games at 1080p60 unless almost all of the parts are mediocre, which isn't what you want.

 
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