Will 1333mhz RAM bottleneck this system

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ToYo94

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So I have made a plan how to buy and upgrade a mediocre machine into a decent gaming one.
I plan on buying a 1 and half year old PC without gpu that has:
Mobo: MSI 460GM-P23 [FX]
CPU: AMD Athlon II X3 460 @3.4Ghz
4Gb RAM, 500Gb sata etc etc.

I plan to use the gpu from my current PC (the radeon 6770) until I manage to sale it (with this gpu) and with that money buy a R9 270X
And then when I collect enough money replace that Athlon with a FX-6300 (sinco mobo supports CPUs with TDP up to 95 wats, so no FX-8320 for me)

So after the upgrades the specs would be:
Mobo: MSI 460GM-P23 [FX]
CPU: AMD FX-6300
GPU: Radeon R9 270X
RAM: Kingston 2x2Gb 1333mhz
HDD: 500GB Western Digital SATA2
PSU: Chieftec GPS-550AB-A 550W

Now the thing is mobo support RAM with frequencies up to 1333mhz. Will this case any performance loss?

As well as putting a PCI-E 3.0 GPU in PCI-E 2.0 x16 slot?
 
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Ok so the RAM wouldn't be the problem? Is there anything else I should worry about before I begin this "experiment" of building a budget gaming PC? Like is the PSU powerful enough or something else?
Oh, and would I be able to use the hard drive from my old pc on this one without needing to delete and reformat everything, just install the drivers for different motherboard and soundcard? would this work?
 
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I hope I am not too late.

While it is always better to format you can just move the disk unformatted, I have tried it before it worked, was missing drivers. But to optimize performance it is better not to have your operating system loading garbage it no longer needs. A clean install would make sure of that. And any ram frequency above 800 mhz I have found is pretty fast. I cannot say I felt any difference moving from 800 to 1333 or 1666.

2x2 ram, seriously? Your board if I am not mistaken has the potential of reading up to 16 GB ram. One 8 GB ram would have been good. Sure it is an extra 40$ but you would not need to add to that for the coming year or maybe 2. Instead of struggling to get by with 4 GB. I am a budget minded person (been dragging along the same GPU and hard disk from computer to computer for 5 years as proof of how much I like to save money) But savign money also means not buying the same part twice, and not spending money every few month replacing parts.

Other thoughts: I really personally regret not buying a core i5 3570k cpu for my budget gaming pc instead of what I went with (a core i3 3.30 ghz) I saved 100$, but now needing to upgrade that will mean throwing away a 130$ cpu to waste and buying a 250$. When it would have been easier to just pay an extra 100 that will last me a few years easily...
 
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Not too late I have redefined my plans into more ambitious ones, but it aint going along as I'm failing to sell my PC for price I want, so its on hold.

MBO: ASUS M5A97 R2.0
GPU: ASUS R9 270X DirectCU II TOP 2GB
CPU: AMD FX-8320
RAM: Kingston HyperX Blu 2x4Gb 1600mhz
PSU: Cooler Master 500w B Series
This is what I hope to have by the end of year, replacing parts gradually. Thanks for reply anyway. I know RAM is cheaper now but the lowest price I could find in my country for the two mentioned ones is 110 in USD
 
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My PC is very similar to that and i love it so im sure that build wont disappoint you.
 
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