Is this a good gaming setup so far? Any good budget miniITX motherboards? Processor?

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Sorry about the double post; I posted the other one as a discussion by accident.
Hey, I'm working on building a budget gaming/misc pc. I have a budget of about 400-500 dollars, and I have a decent plan worked out. Will that perform well? If you're wondering how I'm getting the parts, I've been using ebay. Alright, here's what I'm going to put together:

Bitfenix Prodigy-Ordered
Seagate Barracuda 1TB-Ordered
Corsair Vengeance 8gb kit-Ordered
Also going to use some unbranded 1 gb ram sticks from an earlier build.
Zotac GeForce GTX 760 (2gb)Ordered
Corsair Builder Series CX430M Bronze
Air cooled
Motherboard: Unsure
Processor: Unsure

Tell me if I'm missing something. What processor and motherboard would you advise?
 
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It would, but sadly it seems newest CX series psus (mainly 500 and 600) have had bad fans. (they either have loud noise or do not spin)
Causing people to have to return them multiple time before getting a working one or just getting their money back and purchasing another one.

So there is a chance that you would get one of those bad ones.
Right now it would be best to get Seasonic, XFX or EVGA.
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Thanks. I just checked and they're ddr2. Anything else that might not be compatible?
 
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CX430M is not enough to power GTX760.
760 minimum recommended is 500W.
 
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Alright, so a CX 600 would server well?
 
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It would, but sadly it seems newest CX series psus (mainly 500 and 600) have had bad fans. (they either have loud noise or do not spin)
Causing people to have to return them multiple time before getting a working one or just getting their money back and purchasing another one.

So there is a chance that you would get one of those bad ones.
Right now it would be best to get Seasonic, XFX or EVGA.
 
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Ah. What power supply would you recommend, then? What about the motherboard or processor? I really appreciate your help.
 
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For power supply, see what I updated in my earlier message.
For motherboard and processor...what would you be playing and how much budget you have left so far?

That 60$ was used on gpu
about 30$ on case?
50$ on RAM?
40$ on HDD?

So you have about 320$ left?
 
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Leftover budget of about 160, but I can go over. I'd be playing games like Minecraft (heavily modded) Gaot Simulator, Team Fortress 2, Civilization 5, and Portal 2.s

 
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I guess you could find some i5 3xxx/3xxxK and H67/H77/Z67/Z77 motherboard from ebay with that amount.
Can't really get anything worth while as new.
 
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This one might work but then I'd have to go with a 2xxxx. Is this one worth it anyways?
 
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Thanks!
 
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Just make sure you get the LGA1155 Xeon - there's V1, V2, V3 - I believe the V1 an V2 are both LGA 1155, the V3 is NOT.

 
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