is the GeForce GTX 760 192-bit (OEM) a good gpu for gaming?

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I'm looking to buy a new gaming pc, I had picked one out that looks pretty good. However, I noticed the GTX 760 in it is 3Gb. From what I can find online, that indicates that it is the GTX 760 192-bit (OEM). It has a bus width of 192, instead of 256, and base clock speed of 823 rather than 980. On the up side, it has an extra Gb of Vram. All that being said, is it a decent GPU for playing newer games (farcry 3, witcher 2, etc.) on max settings? Should I look for a different pc, one with a standard 2 Gb GTX 760? I'm very ignorant about hardware and don't feel comfortable building a pc myself, so I'd really like to find one that meets my needs both for gaming and video/photo editing. Here's a link to the one I'm currently considering, Thanks!

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/essentio-desktop-12gb-memory-2tb-hard-drive/3026586.p?id=1219086172072&skuId=3026586&st=categoryid
 
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A 760 is a good GPU in general, you can always OC the 760? Takes very little work + will increase fps by a lot =)

Even with your 760 you will be able to play BF4 on high, so expect it to run games like far cry 3 and witcher 2 quite good =)
 
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best buy? really? i would recommand you to check online on sites like neweggs or NCIX they have custom builds that are MUCH better for around the same price and you can have it delivered at your door for a small fee...cause what you get from best buy is cheap... cheap motherboard, cheap powersupply and all around not very ''upgradable'' PC...(they dont even mention what motherboard and powersupply there is on that system, that dosent smell very good)
 
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I checked both, they didn't have anything even close to the configuration I'm looking for. For that matter, best buy didn't either. I've opted to go with ibuypower and hope for the best. Unlike all these "I bought my kid a pc" horror stories, I'm not going to order a pc with generic parts in it to save money, so hopefully it'll arrive in good working order. Hopefully,

 
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I have no interest in overclocking anything, ever. It's just not for me. I know very little about hardware and I'm just really not interested in tinkering with a computer. I just want to buy one and be able to game and work on it. I don't ever want to have to open it up, ever.
 
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That's a misconception.
'Generic' parts are not going to be of low quality; mainly since you'll be choosing them yourself.
Keep your options flexible.
I had a look at some of the parts, these are my comments:

4th Generation i7: An i7 is not really required for a gaming PC. It is just too powerful. A 4th Generation(Haswell) i5 processor will do just fine.
12GB RAM: Do you need so much RAM? 8 GB is enough for most purposes. Most motherboards come with 4 slots today, so you can always add more RAM if you want to(anything upto 32GB depending on the chipset).
GTX 760 OEM: Your 760 looks to be cut down, underclocked version of the standard 760, and memory bumped up by 1GB to still make it look like an attractive proposal.(However, in some cases, if you're ramping up gaming, the RAM usage may cross 2GB, but not on many occasions, as it's a 760)
Card Reader: Do you need it? My laptop has a card reader, and I haven't used it for a while.(All cameras come with a data cable anyway; in the rare case that a friend brings his card along, the card reader is used, in other cases, it's just idle.
2TB HDD: 1TB is still plenty of space. Unless you play a lot of games and watch Full HD movies uncompressed, there is no need for such a large drive.

There is no information about the motherboard. Before buying, make sure the motherboard is a recent chipset.
When I bought my PC, my mother had similar thoughts as you(buying a cheaply priced good company branded PC; no need to touch it for 3 years atleast, and NEVER GOING TO OPEN IT UP OURSELVES, EVER.) So we went ahead and bought it. Turns out the motherboard was of an older generation, so when the CPU became old, even when there were core 2 duo's available, I couldn't install them in my system, as my motherboard was not compatible. I checked which chipset was compatible, and it was launched in 2007, a solid 9 months before I bought my PC.
 
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I do photo/video editing professionally, so that's why I need the i7 and a lot of ram. As for the card reader, I wouldn't use it. In any case, I've decided against that asus from best buy and have decided to order a custom pc from ibuypower. I'm going to go with an asus Z87 mobo, a 700 W PSU, an i7-4770 (not the k, I have no desire to overclock), 16 gb ram, and either a 2gb gtx 760 or 770 with at least a TB hdd. I filled up a 500 gb hdd in about 6 months due to a ton of RAW files (photos/videos from work) and the 80+ games on my steam account.

As far as the "generic parts", it (ibuypower) doesn't list a brand for the standard network card, hdd's, etc., so that's why I called them generic.
 
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that's all good my man ! at least you will not get a cheap mobo and powersupply in that build, that's the most important thing when buying a 1000$+ system...you want it to last and those are the most prone to fail!
Have fun with your new system !

 
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Thanks! I appreciate your input dude.
 
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BTW if you have some money left over($100 or so) I recommend also getting an SSD. It's not really required but you'll get significantly less bootup/shutdown times and day to day apps(such as Microsoft Office, video/music player, also your professional apps whichever ones you use) will load almost instantly. I recommend the Samsung 840 EVO 120GB if you do decide to get an SSD.
 
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I'm going to try to budget for it, it'd be nice.
 
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