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October 13, 2014 2:55:35 PM

Hey, so I'm in the process of gathrgathering parts for my PC and I'm wondering if its good.
I already got the case.
Ps: It's gonna be for gaming.
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October 13, 2014 3:46:36 PM

I would suggest you add in a cpu cooler. If you plan on overclocking then you definitely need one.
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October 13, 2014 5:14:41 PM

PSU and case are garbage by todays standards but if you already have the case then I suppose may as well use it. Looking at the pictures of the inside of the case on newegg reminds me of a by-gone erra of bare metal flimsty internals, wobbly drive "cages" with no reinforcement etc..

EVGA's budget PSUs are a disservice to their good name. They are OEMed by HEC/Computcase and aren't the quality I would want in a machine that will sustain continuous high workloads (gaming). If you plan to overclock anything at some point it would be best to choose a better made PSU. Better made does not necessarily mean more watts, (though that's one way to skin the cat, I would advise aiming for better component and build quality before aiming for more watts).
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I think if I were building an AMD budget gaming rig I would actually consider the 860K over the FX-6300. The 860K has higher IPC/C (~10-15%) and significantly improved MP scaling, the result is that the 860K offers very nearly the same execution performance as the FX-6300, but consolidated into 4 cores rather than 6, making it better suited to existing real-time workloads. Furthermore, the FM2+ platform is more practical in terms of power dissipation and booting speed (faster posting/bios initialization). The A88X chipset is like 1/3rd the power dissipation of a 970 chipset.

Another thing I would do if I were building a gaming rig on an AMD CPU, would be to choose an Nvidia GPU for it. Nvidia proprietary DX11 API and drivers do a better job of splitting up the compute workload to multiple threads. It's actually ironic, that for existing DX11 games, an nvidia GPU is a better match to an AMD CPU as the compute workload generated by the API and driver are better suited to AMD CPU architecture than AMDs own GPUs.

In DX11 titles, an 860K on a kepler/maxwell GPU will have about the same *effective* compute performance (minimum FPS in compute intensive conditions) as an i5-4460 paired with a GCN GPU.

In conclusion, I'd rather have an 860K+GTX760 than an FX-6300+R9 270 for a gaming computer. The former will produce both better visual quality and less FPS variance than the latter.
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