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Hello all, I would like to ask to help me to decide what pc to buy (not to build). The price should be around 800€. Here are some:

- 1
GPU: MSI NVIDIA® GeForce GTX 960 2GB
CPU: Intel® Core™ i5-4690K
Motherboard: MSI Z97 PC MATE
HDD: 1000GB SATA3.0(6GB) 7200RPM 32MB
RAM: Kingston 8Gb 1866MHz DDR3 HyperX Fury Red (2x4GB)
Price: 800€
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GPU: Asus Radeon R9 380 2Gb GDDR5 / 256bit
CPU: Intel Core i7-4790
Motherboard: (not listed no idea why, I don't think they would sell a pc without a motherboard)
HDD: 2Tb SATA3 7200RPM
RAM: 8Gb DDR3 1600Mhz
Price: 840€
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GPU: Radeon R9 290X 4 GB GDDR5
CPU: AMD FX FX-6300 Processor (14 MB Cache, 3.5 GHz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte 970A
HDD: 1000 GB 7200RPM + 120gb SSD
RAM: 8Gb DDR3 - 1866 MHz
Price: 930€
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So, what I also can say is that number 3 is has a good gpu but a bad cpu (and ofcourse a bit too high price), I need your opinion about these, thanks a lot.

Some websites I used:

http://www.futuremark.com/hardware/cpu
http://www.futuremark.com/hardware/gpu
http://www.newegg.com/
 
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If limited to choosing among the three options, I'd choose the first PC (800 euros) - mainly due to being the best CPU for gaming in all of these options. The GTX 960 2GB, despite being the weakest among the three, would still suffice in 1080p / 60Hz resolution gaming. Though some GPU-intensive games (GTA V, Witcher 3, Metro), you would have to decrease some details and disable some effects to get acceptable frame rates but I think you can definitely live with that (for now). The difference in savings is huge (130 euro compared to the third PC). This can be used to purchase other necessary parts (such as an aftermarket CPU cooler and a 120GB SSD).
 
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Thanks for the answer, I'd like to add that the third pc has a video card worth about 330$ (on newegg.com) and a cpu for about 110$, some sort of cooling system (Cooler Master Hyper TX3 Evo, I don't know what this is) and already a SSD (and I guess that pays off those 130 euros..?). The main point i want to know is that, isn't that cpu too weak for games like you listed, GTA V, Witcher etc.? And according to website (http://www.futuremark.com/hardware/cpu) the i7-4790 is the strongest cpu here listed. Thanks again for your opinion.
 
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You're welcome!

The FX 6300 is indeed a weak CPU (even an i3 is more powerful for gaming to be honest). However, the FX 6300 can be overclocked to reduce *possible* bottlenecks with the 290x. The best CPU suitable for a rig primarily used for gaming is the i5 (which the first PC possesses). An i7, though more powerful than the i5, would not have a noticeable increase in performance (especially a locked i7 versus an unlocked i5).

On the matter of that 130 euro for an SSD (I hope it's at least a Samsung 850) and the CPU Cooler, you can get those 2 parts for a lesser cost. The Samsung 850 (which is one of the best/fastest SSD out there) is about 80-ish euros, while the Cooler Master CPU Coolers are about 30-ish euros. So, you might be paying more for less in that third PC.

With an i5-4690k, you're solved against any bottleneck problems if you choose to upgrade the GTX 960 to a more powerful card in the future (such as a GTX 980 Ti). But with that FX 6300, you *might* have to replace that CPU should you choose to upgrade the R9 290X in the future.
 
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And I would like to know why not i7-4790 over i5-4690k and same for graphic cards, since they are both better? It's only 40euro difference and not much of other parts are different.
 
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It's the single (or dual) core performance that matters in most, if not all, games. The i7 only has a very slight difference in single-core performance compared to the i5, with the i7 being overtaken due to the i5's overclocking abilities. The i7 has hyper-threading technology (HTT) that makes its 4 cores work with 8 threads, while the i5 does not have any HTT. In today's gaming, not much games use more than 4 cores (and 8 threads!). The i7 is only beneficial if your PC would be used for serious multi-tasking works. Since this rig is for gaming, the i5 has the best price/performance (as you won't be paying for something you won't be using).
 
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