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I need some help with reducing the price of a gaming PC I built for myself.
My budget is about 1200 dollar and the one I built is about 1500 dollar. I am building it from a website in my country cause they build the PC for you, and I know that it's cheaper in other places, but I want to build it in my country.

Try to help me out and reduce it's price closer to 1200, thanks. (The prices in the picture are in shekels, ignore that).

My build-

https://imgur.com/a/jf3tp
 
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geofelt
Some thoughts:

1. The box processor comes with a perfectly good cooler, you can omit the NH-D9L

2. Your SSD is excellent and will serve you longer than you might think. Why not defer on the hard drive until you actually need the space?

3. For gaming, fast cores are more important than many cores.
Few games can make good use of more than 2-3 threads.
The I3-8100 has 4 cores and a faster clock rate. Costs less also.

4. A GTX1060 will run on a good 450w psu.
The psu is excellent, and I like overprovisioning to allow for a future graphics upgrade.
See if you can find an equally good quality psu for less.
Perhaps around 550w.
Try for tier 1 or 2 from a list such as this...
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Some thoughts:

1. The box processor comes with a perfectly good cooler, you can omit the NH-D9L

2. Your SSD is excellent and will serve you longer than you might think. Why not defer on the hard drive until you actually need the space?

3. For gaming, fast cores are more important than many cores.
Few games can make good use of more than 2-3 threads.
The I3-8100 has 4 cores and a faster clock rate. Costs less also.

4. A GTX1060 will run on a good 450w psu.
The psu is excellent, and I like overprovisioning to allow for a future graphics upgrade.
See if you can find an equally good quality psu for less.
Perhaps around 550w.
Try for tier 1 or 2 from a list such as this:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html
tier 3 if you must.

You can buy cheaper cases that will function equally well.
But, I would not do that.
Cases are viable for a very long time, and you will be looking at it every day.
 
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Thanks, but I want to buy it pretty soon.
 
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Pretty much all of the options it seems. Thanks a lot.
About the cooling, I don't need any coolers? are you sure?
 
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Yeah, I read now that if I'm not planning on overclocking then I don't need another CPU cooler.
I guess I'm not really interested in overclocking, maybe in the future. For now then I guess I don't need. Thanks, saved me a few bucks
 
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Keep the Z370 motherboard. It will allow you to use a future K suffix processor and overclock it.
I have no idea if the Z370 you picked is the least expensive available to you.
In reading reviews, I see precious little difference in performance among all of the motherboards.

The main rationale for an aftermarket cooler for non overclock processors is to reduce noise.
The stock 92mm cooler fan is quiet normally, but can get noisy when it spins up under load.
With a nice case like yours, it will get sufficient fresh air to do its job reasonable.

I might consider spending $35 for a scythe kotetsu with a 120mm fan.
It would be sufficient for a modest overclock on a processor such as the i5-8600K.
Here is a review:
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article1391-page1.html
 
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No, I've decided to not buy a fan at all, I'm not planning on overclocking and my CPU can't even overclock anyway.
I'll keep the motherboard, the price isn't so bad now without the 70 dollar CPU cooler.
If there's something that'll reduce the price and that I really don't need, like a CPU cooler let me now.
 
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