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Hi there, first post on the forum.
I'm looking to build a Gaming PC relatively soon, and I was wondering if this build is good bang for my buck. I have a budget of around £875, which is roughly $1425 I believe. I would prefer to stay with Team Blue for the CPU, but I'm open to suggestions.
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Any thanks greatly appreciated ;)
 
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I think you'll get better bang for the buck by getting the standard 1600Mhz CL9 memory without any significant loss in performance. Also, if you could sacrifice elsewhere and manage to get some GTX 970, then that would significantly improve the build's perfperprice.
 
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This was some of the cheapest 8GB DDR3 on the site, and the 1600MHz DIMMs were only about £5 cheaper.
I'm not sure where I could compromise with my budget to fit a GTX 970 without the CPU completely bottlenecking the 970. I can't compromise and get an i3 as I will be doing some Live streaming and YouTube Rendering. Unless I can get a performance PC sans GPU for £400, the 970 is a complete no go with this budget.
 
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If the budget is highly constrained then I guess you should wait a month for the maxwell GTX 960 as it will outperform the 285, GTX 770 as well as the 280X at 219$. You really should get 1 TB of storage or more since you will be recording.
 
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If the budget is highly constrained then I guess you should wait a month for the maxwell GTX 960 as it will outperform the 285, GTX 770 as well as the 280X at 219$. You really should get 1 TB of storage or more since you will be recording. The RAM you've chosen is extremely bad because it is a CL11 RAM. You MUST get a CL9 RAM because clock speed of the RAM doesn't matter as much as the CAS Latency does.
 
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