best gaming and editing pc for 500 dollars in 2015 to last some more

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Hello guys, i think i will be able to by me a pc at last. i am on a budget right now and i think top limit is about 600 no more. i know it wont be super fast pc but i want it to be good and play all the upcoming games on as high graphics as possible such as fallout 4, doom 4 and lots more. Also i am doing some youtube stuff and my old rig takes in too long about 3 hours to render a 20 minute log video and if this new rig will make it 2x time faster it will enough for me. also while recording my games it lags really much and hope this rig which you will suggest will be able to handle it. i know double titan z and monster i7 processor will handle anything but as i said i am on a budget right know and will be really happy if this rig will last me for 1 year so i save for better monster rig till than :p.
thanks guys.
 
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on your old rig if you have good sata drives and gpu and power supply and case you can reuse them and use more money for the cpu and mb.
if you need the rig now look on newegg dyi they have some good sales on combo parts.
a base rig would be a 99.00 i3 and a h97 mb for 70.00
40-50 for 8g of ddr3 ram
40.00 for a 1tb hard drive.
power supply 50-60.
cases 50-60.
dvd drive 12-20.
750ti 99.00/ 950 150....960 199.00
 
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PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/ZsykQ7
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/ZsykQ7/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i3-4170 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor ($112.99 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: ASRock H97M Anniversary Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($67.89 @ OutletPC)
Memory: G.Skill AEGIS 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($42.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($47.78 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 950 2GB Superclocked+ ACX 2.0 Video Card ($149.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Cooler Master N300 ATX Mid Tower Case ($39.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($44.99 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24F1ST DVD/CD Writer ($12.99 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit) ($97.89 @ OutletPC)
Total: $617.50
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-09-15 05:53 EDT-0400
 
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PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/wQXv99
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/wQXv99/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor ($96.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($47.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport XT 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($39.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($47.78 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 380 2GB Video Card ($184.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Corsair SPEC-01 RED ATX Mid Tower Case ($39.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Antec Basiq Plus 550W 80+ Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($44.99 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NSC0B DVD/CD Writer ($12.99 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 OEM (64-bit) ($86.89 @ OutletPC)
Total: $602.58
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-09-15 06:01 EDT-0400
 
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If you really plan on upgrading in a year I would recommend this build as you would just need to get a new CPU and GPU for it instead of building a completely new system:

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/93V7NG
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/93V7NG/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor ($64.88 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: MSI Z97 PC MATE ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($87.75 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport XT 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($39.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($47.78 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 950 2GB Superclocked+ ACX 2.0 Video Card ($149.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Corsair SPEC-01 RED ATX Mid Tower Case ($39.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Antec High Current Gamer 620W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($61.98 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NSC0B DVD/CD Writer ($12.99 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 OEM (64-bit) ($86.89 @ OutletPC)
Total: $592.24
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-09-15 06:22 EDT-0400
 
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well i want to give my old rig to my mother so she can have it for her school work projects and other things. so i want to build new one.
 
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Antec High Current Gamer 620W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply

Can't find this one on newegg.
 
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my bad really forgot that.
FX-8320 CPU
MSI 760GMA-P34
Crucial Ballistix 8GB (4x2)
Hitachi 1TB Hard Drive
Sapphire R9 270X
Cougar Spike PC Case
EVGA 500W Bronze PSU

 
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I wouldn't mix that CPU with that motherboard. I would recommend the Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P or the MSi 970 Gaming. I would recommend a R9 380 at the same price as the 270x. Buy a quality PSU, this is the other budget one I would recommend if that Antec is no longer available: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151096&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-PCPartPicker,%20LLC-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=
 
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Yes the problem with z97 boards is if you lose the ability to overclock and if you do a flash of the bios it still won't be a good cpu overclocker on the account of it not being specifically designed around that.

The cpu is good. Only if you never plan on playing any total war games, running vrm's. or rendering out any type of video or photoshop. Any multi tasking would be hampered quite a bit. Along with the limitations of having a 2 core cpu being, Instability in frames. So say you're playing battlefield an explosion happens on a newer 4 core cpu fps drops by a frame or 2, where as a 2 core it would be considerably noticeable. Though it also depends on the game being optimized for 2 core or 4 core setups most tripple a titles are in favor of 4 core's, some hyperthreading. I'd shoot for at least a non overclocked i5 with 4 cores not necessarily with hyper threading or not.

The psu on the other had is apart of antecs high current line which is c6/c7 cpu power approved. So thats a plus if you idle on your pc a ton.
 
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