Is my (potential) build good (500 pound budget)

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Ivan_ms

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My birthday is coming up and i have a budget of 500 pounds, does anyone have any improvements to what i picked on pc part picker. Pentium g4560, stock cooler, asus h110m-a micro atx mobo, 8gb kingston fury ddr4 ram, western digital caviar blue 1tb storage, gigabyte windforce 3gb 1060, thermal take versa h21 case, evga 430w 80+ power supply.
 
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aquielisunari

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Not bad, for a mid range build. When someone build a budget build they do try and save money. I understand where you are coming from with the 430W EVGA PSU. I got the same advice(after the fact) with my build. I use the EVGA 500W 80+ PSU. Even though it has Overvolt, undervolt, over current, over temp and many other protections in place it's still to be avoided. Johnnyguru did a article on it. He doesn't like it by any means. I have
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with an Evo 212(2 fans), Vivo Titan case(5 fans) My Evga 500W 80+ PSU has been happily powering it through overclocked and stock gaming*for the past year*. The 1060 3GB only calls for a 400W PSU. While I don't agree with Aeacus's suggestion I don't disagree with it either. A higher quality PSU isn't a bad thing. On the same token you didn't pick a horrible off brand PSU.

 
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Ivan_ms

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The mobo i am thinking of using only has 2 memory slots, will i notice enough of a difference with dual channel to warrent having to throw away the 2 4gb sticks when i upgrade to 2 8gb sticks in the future?
 
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aquielisunari

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You can sell them. No need to toss good hardware.

This http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/does-dual-channel-memory-make-difference-in-gaming-performance/5/ can help answer your question.

Imo, no you won't. I'd go for the single 8GB stick, assuming you're gaming. Keep researching.
 
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Ivan_ms

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The psu i picked has an 80+ certificate for it and giod reviews all around. Is it worth spending an extra £30 for the other psus or is it good enough?
 
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With PSU, you never know. My machine runs flawlessly for last 10 years on some cheap Chinese $%#% I paid like 20$ for. You just never know :)
 
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If you're willing to risk that your EVGA PSU doesn't cut for it and you end up going to replace your EVGA PSU with better quality PSU (e.g Seasonic), then you can go for your EVGA PSU.
Cost vise, it costs you more. EVGA 430W is £35 and Seasonic M12II-520 EVO is £71. Total would be £106.

But if you don't want to risk it with lower quality PSU and save the headache of replacing PSU, go with M12II-520 EVO right of the bat.

Do note that PSU is the most important component in the PC and you don't want to cheap out on PSU if you care about your system.

Since i care a lot about all my 3 PCs: Skylake, Haswell and AMD (full specs in my sig), i'm only using Seasonic PSUs to power them. With my newest build (Skylake), i went so far that i bought the best 650W PSU money can buy at current date, a Seasonic PRIME 650 that costed me €206.80 (£178.97).
 
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