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Hello,
Today I present to you my first ever gaming rig, and I hope'd you would tell me if all the parts were compatable or even suggestions to improve it.

GIGABYTE GA-Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 = £ 68.39

Antec 302 = £44.78

Intel core i5 2500k 3.30GHz Socket LGA1155 = £159.59

PALIT GeForce GTX 560 Smart Edition 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card = £99.96

8GB Exeleram Value series = £34.99

1TB Seagate Barracuda ST31000528AS 3.5" SATA II Hard Drive = £54.98

600w Coolermaster GX LITE = £46.32

My absolute max budget is £500.

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Cooler Master has a horrendous reputation when it comes to PSUs, go with a Corsair CX600 if you can get it.

I'm also not sure about that RAM - get the G.Skill Ares RAM if you can.

If your primary purpose is gaming, you will be able to get better gaming performance downgrading everything and throwing it into the gpu.

I would suggest to downgrade to the following:
i5-2310
4gb RAM
500W PSU

With the money saved, you can upgrade to 560 ti.
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Chairman Ray said:
If your primary purpose is gaming, you will be able to get better gaming performance downgrading everything and throwing it into the gpu.

I would suggest to downgrade to the following:
i5-2310
4gb RAM
500W PSU

With the money saved, you can upgrade to 560 ti.

Personally, I like to get a GPU that will do the job but spend most of my money on a good motherboard CPU and PSU. I do this because new graphics cards come out all the time and getting a slightly better card now by cutting back on your ram and CPU power seems unbalanced to me. I agree that the better GPU will help with games but the better CPU and RAM will help him later on in the future.

ilikegirls said:
Personally, I like to get a GPU that will do the job but spend most of my money on a good motherboard CPU and PSU. I do this because new graphics cards come out all the time and getting a slightly better card now by cutting back on your ram and CPU power seems unbalanced to me. I agree that the better GPU will help with games but the better CPU and RAM will help him later on in the future.
+1 ;) 

Chairman Ray said:
If your primary purpose is gaming, you will be able to get better gaming performance downgrading everything and throwing it into the gpu.

I would suggest to downgrade to the following:
i5-2310
4gb RAM
500W PSU

With the money saved, you can upgrade to 560 ti.


There's some things you shouldn't downgrade (RAM, HD for instance) but I definitely agree that it should all go into the GPU.

bigcyco1 said:
I would not downgrade my CPU no matter what the case. I definitely agree that you should get a better GPU.

Will do so as soon as I get enough money, but for now it should be substantial, right?
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