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Can FX-6300 support 2 dimms of 1866 mhz DDR3 ram?

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September 25, 2014 12:45:54 AM

I was planning to get a budget build for playing The Crew. I was thinking of this:
AMD FX-6300
Asus M5A990FX Pro R2.0
Sapphire Radeon R9 270x Toxic
2 dimms of Crucial Ballistix Elite 4GB DDR3 PC3-15000 (BLE4G3D1869DE1TX0CEU)
Zalman ZM600-LX 600W
Is everything compatiable?
Will anything bottleneck anything?
Can the CPU and MoBo support that dimms?
Will l be able to play racing games on ultra 1920*1080 till 2017?
Should I wait for DRR4?
Thanks for your help! :) 

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September 25, 2014 12:56:36 AM

Firstly for the title, yep FX 6 supports 1866Mhz.

Good build, a couple suggestions:

-If you don't plan to CF in future, you can very well consider 970A chips, they're as good, especially GB 970A UD3P, it can support even FX 8 with heavy OC with ease, while being available at a great price point.

-Also, get a better PSU, any 500W+ from EVGA/ SeaSonic/ XFX/ Antec would do, XFX Pro 550W is a great value/money.

Now your questions:

-No bottlenecks.

-Yep both the ones I mentioned and the one you included supports 1866MHz.

-Not a chance, with that GPU and CPU, not a chance, you'd need something like i5 and GTX 970 or 980 to be able to do ultra till 2017.

-Nope, DDR4 is incompatible with all MoBos unless there are LGA 2011-3. No need for DDR4, they're not for mainstream budget gamers, you will have to switch to $400 5820k for DDR4.
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September 25, 2014 1:00:56 AM

I only have one suggestion. Please choose a different 270x the toxic is a bad buy at it's current price vs other very similarly priced 270xs. Yeah the ram will work.

As mentioned above a cheaper board isn't a bad idea, it could afford you a better cpu thus taking away the crap shoot that is overclocking, getting better guaranteed performance. If you want to stay with the current motherboard you have the option of crossfire later on, cf and sli have their issues but to 270x's is a good option and quite powerfull
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September 25, 2014 4:28:13 AM

MeteorsRaining said:
Firstly for the title, yep FX 6 supports 1866Mhz.

Good build, a couple suggestions:

-If you don't plan to CF in future, you can very well consider 970A chips, they're as good, especially GB 970A UD3P, it can support even FX 8 with heavy OC with ease, while being available at a great price point.

-Also, get a better PSU, any 500W+ from EVGA/ SeaSonic/ XFX/ Antec would do, XFX Pro 550W is a great value/money.

Now your questions:

-No bottlenecks.

-Yep both the ones I mentioned and the one you included supports 1866MHz.

-Not a chance, with that GPU and CPU, not a chance, you'd need something like i5 and GTX 970 or 980 to be able to do ultra till 2017.

-Nope, DDR4 is incompatible with all MoBos unless there are LGA 2011-3. No need for DDR4, they're not for mainstream budget gamers, you will have to switch to $400 5820k for DDR4.

Thanks, I think I'll get the Gygabyte Mobo.
I'm getting a half year used toxic from a friend for 170$)
I'm happy that it won't last) I planing to get this build to play The Crew and then get a high end DDR4 AMD build in mid 2016.
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September 25, 2014 4:30:55 AM

Fair enough, hope that AMD comes out with DDR4 platform by mid '16. Yep, 270X is fine for high ultra gaming for a couple years.
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September 25, 2014 4:45:44 AM

MeteorsRaining said:
Fair enough, hope that AMD comes out with DDR4 platform by mid '16. Yep, 270X is fine for high ultra gaming for a couple years.

One last question if I mean to OC the CPU, CPU and Ram should I get the Gygabyte or an Asus M5A970 R2.0?
I would get the Gygabyte without a second thought, but the Asus supports ram OC to 2133 ghz while the Gygabyte supports only 2000 mhz OC. Plus the Asus has some other nice features like Remote go, UEFI bios, mem OK and some others. They both cost the same where I live.
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September 25, 2014 4:48:24 AM

I'd get GB, speaking from OC perspective. It OCes better than M5A970, 8+2 power phases just end the competition. Features wise too its not too bad.
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September 25, 2014 4:59:19 AM

MeteorsRaining said:
I'd get GB, speaking from OC perspective. It OCes better than M5A970, 8+2 power phases just end the competition. Features wise too its not too bad.

Thanks
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September 25, 2014 5:05:34 AM

Glad to help :) 
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