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Hi!
I have a simple question- In my planned build, I have a GTX 1060, 8 GB DDR4-2400 and an Intel Core i3-6100. Will I bottleneck?

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If you can get a cheap Z170 motherboard, (preferably by Asrock) You can buy 3000Mhz ram which is very little more expensive than 2400Mhz, it will give you alot, and i mean alot more performance, and get 2x4GB sticks, not 1x8Gb. Also with an Asrock motherboard, you will be open to overclocking non K skylake chips, so it would be a nice performance boost.
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That's balanced?! Wow, the i3 was far more powerful than I thought.
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B150M-DS3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
PSU: Rosewill 550W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply
 
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You might encounter a bit of a CPU bottleneck on more CPU heavy titles, particularly newer ones that can scale up to 4 cores or more quite well, but most of the time you should be getting most of the performance out of your card. If you're playing lots of open world type games like GTA V, Witcher 3, Fallout 4, etc. then you will benefit from splashing out a bit more to get an i5 to go with your GTX 1060.
 
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If you can get a cheap Z170 motherboard, (preferably by Asrock) You can buy 3000Mhz ram which is very little more expensive than 2400Mhz, it will give you alot, and i mean alot more performance, and get 2x4GB sticks, not 1x8Gb. Also with an Asrock motherboard, you will be open to overclocking non K skylake chips, so it would be a nice performance boost.
 
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so, like this?
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor ($110.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock Z170M Pro4S Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($99.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: GeIL EVO POTENZA 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($39.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Silicon Power S60 60GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($29.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($47.49 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GAMING Video Card ($249.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Cougar Spike MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($33.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: Rosewill 550W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($64.99 @ Newegg)
Wireless Network Adapter: Gigabyte GC-WB867D-I PCI-Express x1 802.11a/b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi Adapter ($29.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Monitor: HP 22cwa 21.5" 60Hz Monitor ($115.46 @ Amazon)
Keyboard: Rosewill RGB80 Wired Gaming Keyboard ($49.88 @ OutletPC)
Total: $872.75
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-08-03 23:19 EDT-0400
 
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