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Fall4Lyfe

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What i have so far to work with is a ASUS P8H67-MLE holding an i3-2100 with 8GB of ram using a nvidia geforce 210 1g dedicated ram. Cooler Master HAF 922 case and 650W power supply. what i would like to do if possible is upgrade the rig to play Fallout 4 and Far Cry Primal. It would be appreciated if anyone could help me out in achieving this if possible.

Things i dont need in the build:
Operating system
Hard Drive
CD/DVD disk
 
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I reckon you don't need a monitor also? Based on that I would advice something like this:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core OEM/Tray Processor ($187.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($29.49 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: ASRock H170A-X1 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($78.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($33.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: VisionTek Radeon R9 290 4GB Video Card ($223.98 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Rosewill Capstone 550W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply ($49.99 @...
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Anarkie13

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Based on where you're coming from, I didn't add in OC capability. While you can OC a little on an H81 motherboard, they aren't great for it. So I used the standard non-OC 4460 vs the $70 or so premium of the 4690k and $60+ addition for the Z97 series motherboard which are built for it.

You can also go with a skylake build of the same non-OC level, about $50 more than what I proposed, and with 2X the RAM.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/4wt2K8
Honestly, that's actually a much better build for the price. I didn't realize how cheap DDR4 is right now.
 
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I reckon you don't need a monitor also? Based on that I would advice something like this:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core OEM/Tray Processor ($187.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($29.49 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: ASRock H170A-X1 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($78.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($33.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: VisionTek Radeon R9 290 4GB Video Card ($223.98 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Rosewill Capstone 550W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply ($49.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $604.43
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-29 14:23 EDT-0400

- I5 skylake for excellent gaming performance
- 8gb DDR4, more than enough for gaming
- R9 290 GPU for playing all games highest settings at 1080p
- excellent (gold rated) PSU, since your old PSU maybe will not suffice
 
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