What RAM, CPU, Motherboard to buy?

halfbloodprince

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I am building a desktop for my personal use. Not a gamer, play fifa at most and watch a lot of movies. Have a 1080p Dell monitor with vga port (S2240L) I'd like to buy the following

Processor Intel 6th gen i5 6500 or i5 6600

Ram 8GB ddr4 Corsair vengeance 2400MHz

Motherboard Gigabyte Ga-B150-D3H or Asus B150M-K

Will this RAM work on these motherboards? If not suggest some please.

I may or may not buy a dedicated GPU some time later. In the specification page of Gigabyte it says that video shared memory is 512 MB and for Asus it is 1024MB. Will it affect video performance with the on-board graphics?

And will a 350W Thermaltake psu be enough? I'll run a couple of 7200rpm HDD and no optical drive in the machine.
 
With only a 350w PSU you are going to have to be careful what you put in the PC.
The amount of shared memory won't make a difference for windows applications but for graphically intense ones it makes a fairly large difference.
You have the wrong sort of ram. The motherboards you selected use DDR3 not DDR4. Select some DDR3 ram.
If you are going to do more than word and a little light surfing, consider adding a discrete video right away. You can get a FTX 750ti for under $100 and it is much faster.
 
Asus B150M-K uses DDR4 2133 MHz memory, 2400MHz is not a frequency used by the Intel B150 chipset.
Gigabyte Ga-B150-D3H also uses DDR4 2133 MHz memory.

Minimum recommended power supply is 500 watts. Using an inadequate power supply can cause the PC not to boot-up.

Shared memory is something that you won't notice whether its 512 MB or if it is 1024MB.
 

halfbloodprince

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Thanks. It seems there isn't any 2133 RAM available in my local market right now. Will the 2400 one not work on the machine with lower clock speed?
And shall I go for a 1x8 GB or 2x4GB RAM? If the shared memory is not that big a deal then I'd like to buy the gigabyte one.
 

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