Any way to cheapen this $700 PC build?

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Hi, I posted on here a while ago about a good $500 gaming/animating PC build, and was responded to with this. Now, that's a really good build (or so i'm told), and at the time of that forum, it was around $550. But now it is $730! Prices have gone up. (Note: In that build, I already have the storage an optical drive from another pc)
Is there any way to make this build a little cheaper? I'd like to keep the same cpu and graphics card (or, if there is the same card from another manufacturer), and I need the 8 gb of ram.
Now, i'm not sure what I can switch/take from the build without messing anything up, so I came here.
Is there any way to cheapen this build? Preferably to around $550-$600?
Thanks
 
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AgentTran
I can't bring it down to $600 and keep your current processor and graphics card, but I can try and bring down the price by a little.
- I've got a different brand of RAM, but it's still DDR3-1600, it's all the same stuff don't worry.
- Replaced your GTX 660 with a R9 270X, which is a stronger, yet cheaper card.
- You can use the stock 6300 cooler for now, you don't need the custom cooler just yet. The stock cooler is alright anyway.
- You already have the storage and optical drive, so I removed them from the build.

I've got the build down to about $630, and that's how low it can go without losing performance that I am aware of.
Personally, at this stage I would just save up and get a better supply, but the EVGA one given should be...
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I can't bring it down to $600 and keep your current processor and graphics card, but I can try and bring down the price by a little.
- I've got a different brand of RAM, but it's still DDR3-1600, it's all the same stuff don't worry.
- Replaced your GTX 660 with a R9 270X, which is a stronger, yet cheaper card.
- You can use the stock 6300 cooler for now, you don't need the custom cooler just yet. The stock cooler is alright anyway.
- You already have the storage and optical drive, so I removed them from the build.

I've got the build down to about $630, and that's how low it can go without losing performance that I am aware of.
Personally, at this stage I would just save up and get a better supply, but the EVGA one given should be good enough.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor ($109.99 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($84.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: A-Data XPG V1.0 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($64.99 @ NCIX US)
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 270X 2GB WINDFORCE Video Card ($194.99 @ NCIX US)
Case: Thermaltake VM30001W2Z ATX Mid Tower Case ($39.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($44.99 @ Micro Center)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($89.98 @ OutletPC)
Total: $629.92
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-05-10 15:54 EDT-0400)
 
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PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3HzmI
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3HzmI/by_merchant/
Benchmarks: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3HzmI/benchmarks/

CPU: Intel Core i3-4130 3.4GHz Dual-Core Processor ($119.97 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock B85 Pro4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($69.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: A-Data XPG V1.0 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($64.99 @ NCIX US)
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 270X 2GB WINDFORCE Video Card ($194.99 @ NCIX US)
Case: Thermaltake VM30001W2Z ATX Mid Tower Case ($39.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($44.99 @ Micro Center)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($89.98 @ OutletPC)
Total: $624.90

Here's an intel based build, just as good as gaming compared to the 6300 but much better upgrade paths.
 
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jtpetch

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I do like Intel, but only a dual-core processor?
 
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dual processor with hyper threading, so it acts like a quad core. There are some applications that the 6300 would win at, but core for core the i3 is insanely faster and gaming benchmarks put them on the same level, with the i3 being better at games that cannot utilize many cores.
 
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I probably should've added this earlier, but i'm also going to be doing some animating and rendering in Blender, wouldn't more cores be better for that?
 
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One more last minute question (sorry for leeching off this thread, but I think i've already posted enough question threads this month :p), but when I install Windows 8.1, will it automatically install the drivers for the gpu, cpu, ram, etc from the internet? Or will there be cd's i'l need to feed it?
Thanks sooo much
 
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Ok, thanks!

 
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