How is my current rig anything you would change?

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I would like to know how you think of my rig and what you would change if you were on a budget?

Aerocool GT Advance Mid Tower Black Interior USB3 12cm Red LED Fan Screwless

Evo Labs Cronus Modular 550 Watt 80+ Cert PSU

Western Digital Caviar Green 1000GB 3.5" 7200rpm 64mb Cache Sata III Internal Hard Drive

Netis WF-2118 300Mbps Wireless N PCI Adapter Detachable Antennas

Akasa AK-865 AMD Socket 80mm PWM 2300rpm Fan CPU Cooler

KFA2 GeForce GT740 EXOC 1GB DDR5 Low Profile Active Cooling Graphics Card

Team Elite 8GB PC3-12800 CL11 No Heatsink (1x8GB) DDR3 1600Mhz DIMM System Memory

AMD FX Black Edition 4300 3.8GHz Quad Core AM3+ Socket Overclockable Processor

ASRock 970-PRO3 AMD Skt AM3+ ATX 7.1 HD Audio Motherboard

Asus VS229NA 21.5 inch Widescreen VA LED Monitor (1920x1080, 5ms, VGA, DVI-D, 3000:1)
 
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Yeah, your CURRENT pc needs only that much. But you will need to upgrade the cpu and gpu later.
For that, 550W is better. It will let you use up to FX-8350 and GTX 960/970.
And for FX-6300 + GTX 950/960 it is perfect.


That is because power supplies have longest lifetime and best efficiency when they are run at between 50-80% load.

If you use 300W, 450-500W is enough.
if you use 400W, 550-650W is recommended.

So, buying 550W gives you a good middle ground.

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I would do almost complete new rig.

But on budget...first thing I would do, is to get a new, higher quality power supply.
Evo Labs is Tier 5 psu maker, meaning that you should stay away from their stuff.

By buying a high quality PSU now, you won't need to upgrade it later and you can just hit almost anything on it when you upgrade the performance parts.


http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html

The Tier 1 and 2 power supplies are what you should choose.

After PSU, I would upgrade the graphics card.
Then later, you should upgrade the cpu. your motherboard can handle cpu up to FX-8350.
Finally, I would get 2x4Gb DDR3 kit so you could run the RAM in Dual Channel.

 
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is this better? Xigmatek Maverick 500w '80 Plus Bronze' Semi Modular Power Supply
or this? SuperFlower FX 450W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - Black
 
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Xigmatek Maverick is a Tier 3 power supply, it works but isn't recommended.

SuperFlower FX isn't in the list, but SuperFLower is most of the time quite good brand. But 450W won't give you much future upgradability.
You should look for 550W. I don't think you will need more than that.
 
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for my current i have calculated and i only need 303w so do you still think for the extra 100w?
 
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Yeah, your CURRENT pc needs only that much. But you will need to upgrade the cpu and gpu later.
For that, 550W is better. It will let you use up to FX-8350 and GTX 960/970.
And for FX-6300 + GTX 950/960 it is perfect.


That is because power supplies have longest lifetime and best efficiency when they are run at between 50-80% load.

If you use 300W, 450-500W is enough.
if you use 400W, 550-650W is recommended.

So, buying 550W gives you a good middle ground.

 
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ok thanks alot! i will look into the extra power
 
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