Building a good gaming PC on a REALLY tight budget

Nico_88

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Intro: I'm from South America and, as some of you might have heard, good PC components are way harder to find here, let alone pay. Our currency is heavily devalued and, as a matter of fact, will probably devalue further in the next weeks/months.

I've been pulling some research into the subject and came to these two probable builds:

AMD Vishera FX8350 4GHz (8-core) on a Gigabyte Ga-970a-ud3p MoBo

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Intel Core I5 4450 Haswell 3.1GHz (4-core) on a Gigabyte Ga-h97m Gaming

The rest of the components will be, indistinctly:

GPU: MSI GeForce GTX960 (Already bought)
RAM: Kingston DDR3 8GB 1866
PSU: EVGA 600W Bronze 80 plus

Now, the questions at hand are: Which build is actually best (on a heavily cost-influenced) cost-benefit wise? Do you guys foresee any problem with those builds? If that's the case, can you recommend me something better that will not annihilate my wallet?

Thank you very much guys, been following for a while now, you are the best!
 

Nico_88

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Wouldn't a 6300 bottleneck the GPU?
 

ben001

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Option 2 for sure. An Intel Quad core is better than AMD FX Eight cores.
My recommendation would be including the memory you selected:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($172.89 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock H97M PRO4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($70.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($52.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $296.86
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-11-17 10:16 EST-0500

Hope this helps.
 

ben001

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I only suggested the parts that are right for your setup not the price. Since, Pcpartpicker is the best way to get all the parts together rather than searching for other online source. Just make sure, all the parts i listed above available in your region or not or you can send me a link from where you're purchasing .
 

Nico_88

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Well, since my personal economy just seems to have taken a turn for the worst, I'll have to delay a full update. Nevertheless I still must buy a new PSU. Do you guys think the EVGA Bronze 80-plus 600w will do when I finally update all of the components listed above?