Will these pieces work together?

Bad build.

Firstly the RAM will be single channel, if you want 4GB you need 2x2GB to make it dual-channel and thus faster. I'd actually recommend 8GB these days - 2x4GB sticks.

The PSU is junk, for that 7850 you want a Corsair CX 500. It's important you give your PC clean, stable power, otherwise bad things may happen.

I think you go for a 2500K or a 3570K and get an aftermarket cooler and overclock it. If you're not looking to overclock though, the 2320 will be fine, but bear in mind the 3450 and the 3470 are newer i5s. Look at those instead.

Go for a better board too. If you're looking at i5 2xxx, go for a Z68 board, if you're looking at i5 3xxx, go for a Z77 board. Gigabyte is a good brand and make some good Z68 and Z77 boards.

Case is OK, I'd go for a Carbide 300R from Corsair if you can though.

Graphics card is good, hard drive looks fine to me too.
 
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Bad build.

Firstly the RAM will be single channel, if you want 4GB you need 2x2GB to make it dual-channel and thus faster. I'd actually recommend 8GB these days - 2x4GB sticks.

The PSU is junk, for that 7850 you want a Corsair CX 500. It's important you give your PC clean, stable power, otherwise bad things may happen.

I think you go for a 2500K or a 3570K and get an aftermarket cooler and overclock it. If you're not looking to overclock though, the 2320 will be fine, but bear in mind the 3450 and the 3470 are newer i5s. Look at those instead.

Go for a better board too. If you're looking at i5 2xxx, go for a Z68 board, if you're looking at i5 3xxx, go for a Z77 board. Gigabyte is a good brand and make some good Z68 and Z77 boards.

Case is OK, I'd go for a Carbide 300R from Corsair if you can though.

Graphics card is good, hard drive looks fine to me too.
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Well the amount of money I can spend on it is limited, could I get anything better for same price or would it cost more? I found the z68 board for example and it seems to cost double the price of the one in the list.
And is the build just "not that good" or "won't run at all"?
 
The build will work, but if I were going to spend more money on anything, I'd get a much better power supply. Corsair CX 600 would be fine.
 
Well sadly I can't afford to spend more, so unless there's something better for the same price that you recommend I suppose I'll be buying the one I posted tomorrow.

One last question though, you said it's better to get 2x 2gb ram, should I get 2x http://www.1a.lt/pc_komponentai/ram_atmintis/a-data_2gb_1333mhz_ddr3_cl9_ad3u1333c2g9-s/6904211/ instead of http://www.1a.lt/pc_komponentai/ram_atmintis/details.php?id=11026208 and how much would the performance change? Is it worth it? (also, would it work?)
 
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Yes go for the 2x2GB kit it will work fine and you should theoretically get double the bandwidth. One stick will be running in single-channel, two sticks will be running in dual-channel.

If you are out of money spend less on your GPU and get a Radeon HD 6870 or a cheap 6950 and then put more on the power supply. I can't stress how important it is to have a decent power supply, especially when you're running stuff like what you're wanting to run. If it comes to it, get an i3 instead of an i5, will still be fine for gaming and shouldn't bottleneck.
 
How much more would a better power supply cost and what are the consequences of using a poor one? Could my graphics card or something get damaged? How much would the gaming performance drop if I'd buy a weaker graphics card but better power supply?

Also can you suggest other graphics card than 6870 and 6950, the site I'm buying from doesn't seem to have those, I want to buy all the pieces from one site to avoid trouble and so that I wouldn't have to pay as much for the delivery.
You can check the ones it has here http://www.1a.lt/pc_komponentai/vaizdo_plokstes/ (It's in Lithuanian though :\ )


Btw some guy said I'll barely feel a difference between 2x 2gb and 1x 4gb, he said it's like 5% difference or less, and maybe I'll want to add more ram later, I could just add another 4gb, but if I go for 2x 2gb I'll have no more space and will have to replace, what do you guys think? Would 4gb be sufficient for gaming?
 
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Not sure how much more it would cost over where you are, but if you went for a lesser graphics card you could get a Corsair CX 500 and that would power it fine.

A bad power supply can damage your whole system, if it fails (which it likely will do at some point) then you risk it damaging your motherboard and your graphics card especially. Weak power supplies can also cause Windows to freeze and random reboots and stuff. Basically, a cheap PSU can turn into an expensive one when it takes out most of your system and you end up forking out more money to replace it all.

The GTX 560 Ti should be getting cheap now, as the 660 Ti has replaced it. 660 Ti is likely going to be out of your budget, so a 560 Ti would be good. If not try for a Radeon HD 6850 or a GTX 550 Ti.

4GB is enough for gaming, you'll probably want to upgrade sometime in the future though. I'd go dual-channel and get 2x2GB.
 
Yes that is the exact PSU I'm on about. Get one of those.

Does that site have the 560 Ti?
 
Yes, but I believe HD7850 is faster.

Also I've found a 500gb sata hdd from my old pc, I think it's 4.8gb/s while the one I wanted to buy is 6gb/s. Will the one I found be fast enough?


Nvm it's 3gb/s, my bad, no idea why I thought it's 4.8


And people on the other forum say there's no point of buying the corsair PSU. Who's right? :/
 
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Yes the 7850 is faster than the 560 Ti, but the 560 Ti should be cheaper.

The 3GB/s HDD will be absolutely fine, HDDs don't even fully saturate the 6GB/s interface anyway, it's for SSDs really.
 
Trust me, it is. They obviously don't know what they're talking about if they are recommending you run a 7850 on a PSU which likely doesn't even deliver 550W of clean power.
 
Yes the CX 500 is 500W but that Chieftech thing although it claims it's 550W, if you add up the amperage to the rails, it likely won't give anywhere near 500W on the +12V rail, which is what matters most really these days.

A good PSU, like the Corsair, will give almost or close to it's entire wattage on the +12V rail. A bad PSU, like that Chieftech, probably won't.
 
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