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Building my first PC after doing some lengthy research on how to do it. As I'm doing it mainly for fun, the experience, and some medium-level gaming, I'm having a hard time deciding on which motherboard/CPU combination to go with. I've already purchased a full size ATX case and decided on the (low-power) GeForce 750ti/ or Radeon 260 variant for a passable graphics solution as the price is right ($130-$160). I'm looking at 3 CPU options to fit my budget: (1) AMD FX-6300 (possible overclock) - seems to be a popular budget gaming CPU, (2) one of the Haswell i3 CPU's (for transitioning to an i5/7 down the line), (3) or grabbing one of the new cheapo "Pentiums" and overclocking the crap out of it (>4Ghz?!). Obviously I just want the best value. <$70 mobo, <$130-150 CPU ideally. I'm reading AMD cores are less powerful and simply inefficient compared to their Intel counterparts, however they offer more multi-thread power for less money. I also don't want to bottleneck my mild GPU. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Building my first PC after doing some lengthy research on how to do it. As I'm doing it mainly for fun, the experience, and some medium-level gaming, I'm having a hard time deciding on which motherboard/CPU combination to go with. I've already purchased a full size ATX case and decided on the (low-power) GeForce 750ti/ or Radeon 260 variant for a passable graphics solution as the price is right ($130-$160). I'm looking at 3 CPU options to fit my budget: (1) AMD FX-6300 (possible overclock) - seems to be a popular budget gaming CPU, (2) one of the Haswell i3 CPU's (for transitioning to an i5/7 down the line), (3) or grabbing one of the new cheapo "Pentiums" and overclocking the crap out of it (>4Ghz?!). Obviously I just want the best value. <$70 mobo, <$130-150 CPU ideally. I'm reading AMD cores are less powerful and simply inefficient compared to their Intel counterparts, however they offer more multi-thread power for less money. I also don't want to bottleneck my mild GPU. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.