Budget cpu and gpu for gaming/multitasking/daily?

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Maybe somebody can tell me good cpu and gpu for gaming and for some software, internet browsing, etc. I don't know budget, but maybe somebody can say some variants up to 200-300$ from cheapest?
 
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Grab a g3258 and OC it.. Does pretty well on any kind of software with a decent SSD (Kingston V300 120gb i.e.). You don't need a z97 chip to do a good overclock. I built a PC for 330€ with h81 chip and g3258 on it overclocked to 4.3GHz (4.4 at winter) on the stock cooler (yes the intel stock fan) with max temps around 72c when stress testing. So grab a g3258 for 50 bucks and a gtx 960 for 250$ and enjoy a budget mini-monster. Pointless to spend the extra money on the i3-4160, when this little pentium chip when overclocked surpasses it, lacking only the hyperthreading feature, which you are not gonna need anyway, unless you are using multi-threaded software.
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i3-4130/4160/4170 mainly for gaming.
AMD FX-6300 would be best for multitasking and using multiple programs.

Both costs just around as much.

For gpu, you can't really fit anything good in the budget.


i3/FX-6300 = 100$
cheapest motherboard for one of them = 50$

With 300-350$ budget, you might be able to fit GTX950.
At the least GTX750Ti.

Do you have DDR3 memory already? If not, then you will need it as well, which costs at least 40$.


At the very least, you will need 350$ as budget for anything decent. Preferably 400$.
 
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Grab a g3258 and OC it.. Does pretty well on any kind of software with a decent SSD (Kingston V300 120gb i.e.). You don't need a z97 chip to do a good overclock. I built a PC for 330€ with h81 chip and g3258 on it overclocked to 4.3GHz (4.4 at winter) on the stock cooler (yes the intel stock fan) with max temps around 72c when stress testing. So grab a g3258 for 50 bucks and a gtx 960 for 250$ and enjoy a budget mini-monster. Pointless to spend the extra money on the i3-4160, when this little pentium chip when overclocked surpasses it, lacking only the hyperthreading feature, which you are not gonna need anyway, unless you are using multi-threaded software.
 
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