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Ok so i am new to building pc's and this is my first ever time actually building one can anyone tell me if these parts are compatible and will run games smoothly and also would like some advice...thank you
Processor- amd fx 8350
Gpu- radeon rx 480
Ram- kingston hyperX fury 8gb DDR4
Hdd-WD 1 tb
Cooler master hyper 212 EVO
600 w power supply
ASROCK MOTHERBOARD MICRO ATX DDR4 H110M
 
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Ecky

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This is a decent starting point:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($194.88 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B150M-DS3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($63.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Mushkin Essentials 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($39.99 @ Directron)
Storage: Crucial MX300 275GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($70.41 @ NCIX US)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 3GB GAMING Video Card ($194.98 @ Newegg)
Case: Xion XON-310_BK MicroATX Mid Tower Case ($21.98 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($42.79 @ OutletPC)
Total: $629.01
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-10-29 10:09 EDT-0400

It's about $120 under budget, which leaves some room for tweaking.

1) If you need a copy of Windows, that will bring you up to around $720.

2) You could change to 2x 8GB sticks of RAM for another ~$30

3) You could move up to a better Samsung SSD for another ~$20, and add a large storage drive for another ~$60

4) You could move up to a GTX 1060 6GB for another ~$50

5) You could move to an i7 6700 for ~$100, which would improve performance in new AAA games such as GTA V and Battlefield

6) You could move up to a high quality Gold or Platinum rated power supply

There's no need for an aftermarket cooler on Intel CPUs, and even 500w is overkill because these are very power efficient components, and will likely draw under 220w. The 6GB version of the GTX 1060 is probably more future-proof and a good idea if you want to run resolutions above 1920x1080. CPUs are the slowest-improving component, and the i5's are just adequate for smooth gameplay in today's AAA games, so an i7 might be a good investment.
 
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gussrtk

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The build up top is pretty good.

But, I would vote against the 1060-3GB version, Minimum should be a 6gb version when looking at 1060. Either that Or RX480-4gb would be a better choice. 3GB is great for today, bad for tomorrow (if you understand what i mean). Games are expanding, and needing more vram, the 3gb will be outdated much sooner than the 4gb rx480. But, even so, yes the 1060 will produce nicer graphics.

i7 is not needed. Rather spend (if you have) more into other components.

as suggest above, the 2x8gb would be better choice, since you are already investing, it's not much of a "price bump"

 
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My interpretation of the way games are becoming more threaded is that you'll probably need an i7 for 60fps before you need more than 3GB of VRAM at 1080P. Really, gaming is an expensive hobby and it's very easy to spend a lot of money chasing high framerates and ideally you'd have both, but most people have a limited budget and have to decide where to make sacrifices.

GTA V, for instance, shows the 5960X (Haswell 8 core CPU) as being 20% faster than the higher clocked Haswell 4770K, and 40% faster than the higher-clocked 4670K - and is the only CPU with minimums above 60fps.

gta_v_proz.jpg



Battlefield 1 is 45% faster on the 8-core vs the higher clocked 4-core i5. The i7 6700 just matches it despite a 10% IPC and 15% clockspeed advantage, and it's already an 8-threaded CPU.

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^ Be aware that GameGPU's test scene in BF1 is optimistic about performance, which will be lower in a 64-player multiplayer match.
 
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in that sense wouldn't you agree that AMD gpu with Intel CPU be a better choice? for "optimal" price based futureproof? (this is being said vaguely, because there is no futureproof lol)
 
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I'd say it depends on a lot of factors. The GTX 1060 has an advantage in directx11 when CPU-bottlenecked because there's a lot less driver overhead, and this doesn't typically show up in benchmarks because most sites use high-end CPUs to isolate video card performance, and DX11 games aren't going anywhere anytime soon. Also, nVidia's texture and color compression is better, so that 3GB isn't actually quite 25% less usable space than 4GB on an RX 480. On the other hand, AMD cards have historically aged better, presumably because drivers can't squeeze as much performance out of the cards at launch, and it takes AMD time to make optimizations. Also, I despise most of nVidia's proprietary features; for example there's no reason they can't support freesync, they just choose not to.
 
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