Best 950 dollar CDN PC build.

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I want a white/black/blue or white/black colour scheme in an S340. Is this good?
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($215.00 @ Canada Computers)
Motherboard: ASRock H97M PRO4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($89.99 @ NCIX)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($69.95 @ Vuugo)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($83.98 @ DirectCanada)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($59.98 @ DirectCanada)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 2GB Video Card ($258.50 @ Vuugo)
Case: NZXT S340 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case ($83.00 @ Vuugo)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA GS 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($89.98 @ Newegg Canada)
Total: $950.38
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-07-14 23:04 EDT-0400

Which 960 is the best?
 
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I guess you're reasons are fairly legitimate for disagreeing with my build. There's no reason for you to immediately dislike AMD cpus. I agree that they aren't the best cpus out there, and that intel can definitely compete at all price points, if not dominate, but AMD does make good budget hardware. As for which 960 I think you should get, as someone who has an asus strix model of the gtx 970, I'm a big fan of the work Asus put into their model, and benchmarks show that it keeps cool and quiet while performing just as well as many other models. Check out this review for comparison: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-gtx-960,4038-6.html
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Well It's a good build overall, but I wouldn't suggest getting a gtx 960, because it has only 2gb of vram and has generally shown to do poorly against its AMD price competitor. As for the cpu it's really solid for the budget, as is the mobo, but in my build I'd suggest paying a bit less for the cpu that way you can get an excellent gpu. An fx 8320 or fx 8350 wouldn't bottleneck most gpus on the market, and do alright in games. If you don't want to get this build, just please buy an AMD r9 280x instead of a gtx 960, you'll get noticeably better performance. Also I'd still suggest my psu over the one you picked.

PCPartPicker part list: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/PydydC
Price breakdown by merchant: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/PydydC/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor ($174.98 @ DirectCanada)
Motherboard: Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 Micro ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($63.00 @ Vuugo)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Blue 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($63.25 @ Vuugo)
Storage: Sandisk Ultra Plus 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($59.99 @ NCIX)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($57.98 @ Newegg Canada)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 290 4GB TWIN FROZR Video Card ($376.98 @ Newegg Canada)
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($78.50 @ Vuugo)
Power Supply: Silverstone Strider Plus 500W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($84.99 @ Amazon Canada)
Total: $959.67
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-07-14 23:28 EDT-0400
 
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I guess you're reasons are fairly legitimate for disagreeing with my build. There's no reason for you to immediately dislike AMD cpus. I agree that they aren't the best cpus out there, and that intel can definitely compete at all price points, if not dominate, but AMD does make good budget hardware. As for which 960 I think you should get, as someone who has an asus strix model of the gtx 970, I'm a big fan of the work Asus put into their model, and benchmarks show that it keeps cool and quiet while performing just as well as many other models. Check out this review for comparison: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-gtx-960,4038-6.html
 
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