Upgrading, any Thoughts or idea?

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dwrune

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Ok I am doing some real upgrading for the first time in several years heres whats happening I have.
CPU:: AMD Athlon II x2 250 3.0 ghz
Motherboard: Asrock N68C-S UCC
Ram: 4 Gigs DDR2
Hardrive: 500 Gigs, 3gb/s
Video Card: Nvidia 550 GTX ti

This is what I'm getting the harddrive and video card are not in the price.
CPU: AMD FX-8150 3.6 Ghz
Motherboard: Asrock 970 Pro3
Ram: 4Gigs DDR3 1333
Hardrive: 500 Gigs, 6gb/s
Video Card: Nvidia 550 GTX ti
PSU: Apevia 700w
CPU Cooler: COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 EVO
New case, and extra fans. comes to roughly $492.00
anything i am missing?
 
Drop the CPU to a 6100 and get a better graphics card. You'll get better FPS with that.

Drop the power supply down to 500-600w, and go to a reliable brand like corsair, antec, silverstone, seasonic, PC power and cooling, NZXT, or XFX.
 
i would up to 8 gb's of 1600mhz ram, or there's some 1866 g.skill on sale for 50.

Also, if you can afford the 8150 then get the 2500k or 3570k, if you live near a microcenter than you can get a good discount too. they're a lot faster even thow they have less cores, each core is as good as each amd module which is 2 "cores" on one little are with some shared pieces.
 
just go to microcenter.com and there's a store picker at the top with a list and you can see their inventory
 
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