Looking for a $500 ~ $600 gaming build

toanlc

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Jul 28, 2016
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Hi everyone,
Currently, I'm looking for a gaming and programming build at the budget about $500 ~ $600 top. Hope it will have some future path for upgrading as not to feel so obsolete in technology.
I did some researches and reading then I came up with something like this.

CASE: CORSAIR Carbide Series 200R Windowed Mid Tower Case
PSU: CORSAIR CX500 V3-80Plus Bronze-Active PFC
Mother Board: GIGABYTE H170 GAMING 3 – LGA 1151
CPU: INTEL CORE I3-6100 Skylake Socket 1151
RAM: GSKILL RIPJAWS 4 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 Bus 2133 Cas 15
Storage: SANDISK ULTRA II 240GB SATA 3
Cooling: DEEPCOOL GAMMAXX 200

This is over my budget already (with the price in Vietnam). There is still no video card.
Hope you guys can give me some advise.
Thank you very much
 

toanlc

Commendable
Jul 28, 2016
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1,510


I found this PSU (from Tier 2 list)
SEASONIC M12II-520W 80 Plus Bronze Active PFC.
Hope it will do just fine.
About the SSD, it will save me about $45 as switching to the 1tb HDD. I will look up the brand (could be Seagate or WD).
May I ask for a Video card recommendation for this build? I'm playing dota most of the time and some Photoshop working stuff.
Besides, I intend to switch to the Corsair Carbide Series 100R Windowed Mid Tower Case. Don't know if it's really worth it for just 10 bucks less