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Crazyuniwalrus

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Approximate Purchase Date: before April 2014

Budget Range: 550-650
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System Usage from Most to Least important: gaming, surfing the internet

Are you buying a monitor: No

Parts to Upgrade: new pc

Do you need to buy OS: Yes

Preferred Websites for Parts: newegg.com, tigerdirect.com amazon.com

Location: Oshkosh, Wisconsin Country - USA

Parts Preferences: by brand or type: slightly prefer intel over AMD

Overclocking: Maybe

SLI or Crossfire: Maybe

Your Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080

Additional Comments: minecraft, capable of any game, add graphics card later, needs to be wireless, easily upgradable, cool case, excellent low noise cooling.

And Most Importantly, Why Are You Upgrading: I want to be able to play big title high graphics games. ex. Battlefield 4

Mother board-
AS rocket z87 extreme3 lga 1150

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157372
$115

CPU-
Intel core i5 4670k 3.4 ghz lga 1150

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116899
$230

Memory-
Viper 4 gb ddr3

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=8033817&MobileOptOut=1
$30 x 2 $60

Hard drive-
Wd black drive 2tb

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236624
$150

Ssd-
Samsung 120gb

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147247
$90

Power supply-
Raidmax 735 watt modular bronze

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817152047
$60

Case-
Thermatake commander series

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811133196
$50
 
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I would definetely get at least 8GB of 1600mhz DDR3.

Like someone else said - get a 4670 non k unless you are overclocking. If you are overclocking, get a good aftermarket heatsink because haswell runs hot.

Get a seasonic or xfx power supply. 650 watts for a single GPU system, if you want to do sli I would recommend 850. Do yourself a favor and don't go cheap on the PSU.

Based on what you currently have, I would suggest losing the SSD, and buying a 1TB western digital caviar blue on Amazon for 60$ instead of the 2 TB black. That would free up nearly 200$ which would allow for a decent entry level graphics card like a GTX 660ti or Radeon 270. Throw in another 50$ and you have enough for a GTX 760 which will play most games (like...
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One thing I suggest is getting the i5 4670 unless you plan on overclocking. From that you can save 20 bucks. Also get an h87 mobo and save yourself there. Unless you plan on overclocking. One last thing skip the 2 tb get a 1 tb save 50 bucks and ise that to get a 256 gb ssd so you can run more games of of it.
You could save yourself a good chunck of change with that.
 
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I would definetely get at least 8GB of 1600mhz DDR3.

Like someone else said - get a 4670 non k unless you are overclocking. If you are overclocking, get a good aftermarket heatsink because haswell runs hot.

Get a seasonic or xfx power supply. 650 watts for a single GPU system, if you want to do sli I would recommend 850. Do yourself a favor and don't go cheap on the PSU.

Based on what you currently have, I would suggest losing the SSD, and buying a 1TB western digital caviar blue on Amazon for 60$ instead of the 2 TB black. That would free up nearly 200$ which would allow for a decent entry level graphics card like a GTX 660ti or Radeon 270. Throw in another 50$ and you have enough for a GTX 760 which will play most games (like battlefield 4) at reasonable frame rates and relatively high settings. Add another 80$ from there and you can get for the GTX 770 will will play most games in high/ultra at 1080p.

That way you have a fully capable PC right now, and when you are ready to upgrade you can add the SSD and/or second HDD.
 
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