Building First Gaming PC and Need Help!

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Maj_PandaFries

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Okay, so I'm new to the whole PC gaming and I've been doing a lot of research on it and I was looking at the different parts on TigerDirect and I came across this deal:
Asus 970 AM3+ motherboard
AMD FX 4300 Quad Core 3.8GHz processor
2x Adata Premier SRS 4GBs memory modules
EVGA GTX650 Video Card
Samsung DVDRW
HEC 485W PSU
Thermaltake V3 Blk Edt. Case
for 379.99 USD I don't know if it's good enough to run what I want out of my PC, which is just to be able to play DayZ and Minecraft with some friends. Any help or suggestions would be great!
 
I would advise against the fx 4300 and instead go intel sandy/ivy bridge dual core route. Excellent performance in games and leaves a better path for upgrades. Recently just got my intel dual core and its a beast for the price.

Also the psu is not a brand im aware of which may be a problem as some brands are just junk. Best of sticking to well known brands, corsair, seasonic, ocz etc.
 
PSU is garbage but other than that it seems like it would work out well for what you want to do.
 
Maj_PandaFries said:
Okay, so I'm new to the whole PC gaming and I've been doing a lot of research on it and I was looking at the different parts on TigerDirect and I came across this deal:
Asus 970 AM3+ motherboard
AMD FX 4300 Quad Core 3.8GHz processor
2x Adata Premier SRS 4GBs memory modules
EVGA GTX650 Video Card
Samsung DVDRW
HEC 485W PSU
Thermaltake V3 Blk Edt. Case
for 379.99 USD I don't know if it's good enough to run what I want out of my PC, which is just to be able to play DayZ and Minecraft with some friends. Any help or suggestions would be great!
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If you are looking for low price, there are a few things to do to make this better.
1. RAM. Look at samsung DDR3. OOB Specs are garbage, but at stock volts you can without fail set it to 1866 9-9-9-24 1T and have a much faster RAM. My set will do 2400 10-11-10-28 1T with only 2 DIMMs, and 2133 9-10-9-24 1T @ 1.395V with all 4 DIMMs. This memory is really underrated by everyone that has not tried it.

2. PSU. Get something good. Corsair is generally good, as is OCZ, PCPAC, Seasonic, Silverstone, upper end Kingwin, Thermaltake Toughpower, Rosewill Capstone and fortress, xfx, and quite a few others. As a rule of thumb, if it is less than $50 original price for 500 Watts, it is junk.
mikeb2817 said:
I would advise against the fx 4300 and instead go intel sandy/ivy bridge dual core route. Excellent performance in games and leaves a better path for upgrades. Recently just got my intel dual core and its a beast for the price.
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Sure. Better upgrades. There is little in gaming gains to be had for going to an i7, and by the time you need to go i5, your platform is dead. Great idea.

The AMD AM3+ platform has at least one more generation on it, possibly 2, and it should be compatible with AM4/FM3 when it comes out.
 
PSU may not even have enough watts. Id go to 600 watt to be safe. Everything else looks good. I have the fx 4100 cpu and it is pretty good. Yours is the same thing just clocked faster. Also cant beat corsair ram. Their vengeance ram is cheap now.
 
wolfeking said:
If you are looking for low price, there are a few things to do to make this better.
1. RAM. Look at samsung DDR3. OOB Specs are garbage, but at stock volts you can without fail set it to 1866 9-9-9-24 1T and have a much faster RAM. My set will do 2400 10-11-10-28 1T with only 2 DIMMs, and 2133 9-10-9-24 1T @ 1.395V with all 4 DIMMs. This memory is really underrated by everyone that has not tried it.

2. PSU. Get something good. Corsair is generally good, as is OCZ, PCPAC, Seasonic, Silverstone, upper end Kingwin, Thermaltake Toughpower, Rosewill Capstone and fortress, xfx, and quite a few others. As a rule of thumb, if it is less than $50 original price for 500 Watts, it is junk.

Sure. Better upgrades. There is little in gaming gains to be had for going to an i7, and by the time you need to go i5, your platform is dead. Great idea.

The AMD AM3+ platform has at least one more generation on it, possibly 2, and it should be compatible with AM4/FM3 when it comes out.
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And the next generations will suck and you would still have been better off with sandy bridge, even better idea. The i3 that i have does laps around all the games i have. I would have this over an fx 8350 any day.

Btw no one said go upgrade to an i7.
 
sure you would. And if we were to hand you a intel and a AMD machine, with the same GPU, without looking at FPS counter you will not see a difference. Intel performs better, yes, but not $100 worth of better. (I know you are talking about an i3, but talking broader here).

AMD charges the right price for a good product that does what people need it to do. Intel charges out the ass for a product that is marginally better. Unless you need massive IPC for things like folding, you will never get any advantage from wasting money on a better processor. Buy AMD and you get a better GPU and thus better gaming.
 
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