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Valon_M

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Hi guys,

I am planning on building my first budget gaming PC. Is the below build enough for playing the new games at 1080p/60fps?

CPU Intel Pentium G4560 3.5Ghz Kaby-Lake
MBO Gigabyte B250
RAM Corsair/Kingston/Crucial Balistic DDR4 1x8Gb 2400Mhz
HDD WD Blue 1TB 7200rpm
PSU 500-550W 80+ Bronze (whichever brand I find in my country,because there aren't many types to choose from)

I have a Geforce Gigabyte GTX960 OC 4GB graphics card.

Please feel free to give your suggestions or advice.

Thanks


 
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How about high and maybe a little extra AA settings in some of the less intensive games?

According to Intel's processor architecture overview, in a HyperThreaded core, each thread can make independent forward progress as long as the schedulers can keep up and there are free cycles available. In modern Intel CPUs, schedulers are without issue and there are always cycles allocated between both threads. So, the key word is independent. Having a dual core with four threads is like having a quad core with slightly weaker cores. It definitely is an upgrade over an i5 760. I mean, my G4400 mops the floor with my old i3 540, and the i3 had more threads.
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Valon_M

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I'm shopping in Kosovo and Macedonia, and the PSUs available are Deepcool and Eragon. Corsair PSUs are three times more expensive than their Amazon price and only VS series are available.
 
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Valon_M

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Regarding RAM,since my B250 Motherboard has ony two slots,I'm thinking maybe it's better to use one and leave the other free for future addition of extra RAM.
 
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If you get a Deepcool unit, I'd recommend the Quanta series which is made by Channel Well Technology which works with Corsair to make several of their better units.

I have no knowledge of a brand known as Eragon, so I can't offer you any advice on their units.



Using a kit of two sticks will allow you to use dual channel memory technology. Theoretically, this doubles memory bandwidth. One thing that's for sure is that it'll drastically reduce stutter when CPU usage is high.

Also, mixing RAM (even two of the same sticks) doesn't always go the way you want it to and often leads to a series of headaches as you try to figure out what you did wrong. The only way to get two sticks that are guaranteed to be compatible is to buy them in a kit.
 
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Valon_M

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If you get a Deepcool unit, I'd recommend the Quanta series which is made by Channel Well Technology which works with Corsair to make several of their better units.

I have no knowledge of a brand known as Eragon, so I can't offer you any advice on their units.



Using a kit of two sticks will allow you to use dual channel memory technology. Theoretically, this doubles memory bandwidth. One thing that's for sure is that it'll drastically reduce stutter when CPU usage is high.

Also, mixing RAM (even two of the same sticks) doesn't always go the way you want it to and often leads to a series of headaches as you try to figure out what you did wrong. The only way to get two sticks that are guaranteed to be compatible is to buy them in a kit.[/quotemsg]


It's not Eragon, it's Energon. Sorry it was my mistake. But I believe Deepcool will be good.
Thank you very much for the info about RAM. I'll make sure to get 2 sticks x 4GB 2400Mhz.

So with this setup, I believe I'll be good for playing new games with high/very high settings at 60fps on resolution 1080p.

My current PC is an i5 760 2.8GHz which I've had for 6-7 years (and with which I still play the new games at high settings). Will the Pentium G4560 perform better (and I will notice it) even though it is a dual-core with hyper threading or is it considered to be a downgrade?

 
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weberdarren97

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How about high and maybe a little extra AA settings in some of the less intensive games?

According to Intel's processor architecture overview, in a HyperThreaded core, each thread can make independent forward progress as long as the schedulers can keep up and there are free cycles available. In modern Intel CPUs, schedulers are without issue and there are always cycles allocated between both threads. So, the key word is independent. Having a dual core with four threads is like having a quad core with slightly weaker cores. It definitely is an upgrade over an i5 760. I mean, my G4400 mops the floor with my old i3 540, and the i3 had more threads.
 
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