bombardinii wrote So I have a few parts that I have already purchased (Hard drive and case) And I'm looking to spend a total of about £500 here's what I thinks good so far, can you recommend a good PSU and a motherboard please?
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I assume you are planning on OCing?
Main purpose of PC? Any use of the 16gb of RAM?

Yeah I plan on overclocking but as my budget was limited, I was going to keep it all at stock. Then after I get the extra money get a good cpu cooler and then oc. And well I originally planned to get 8gb of ram. But was then advised that 16gb makes lots more sense to get?

bombardinii wrote Yeah I plan on overclocking but as my budget was limited, I was going to keep it all at stock. Then after I get the extra money get a good cpu cooler and then oc. And well I originally planned to get 8gb of ram. But was then advised that 16gb makes lots more sense to get?

Don't bother overclocking your cpu, costs too much for a less than 5% increase in performance.

Get a locked i5 and a b85 board and put all the money in your GPU and get a SSD.

960 isn't that great either.

Could you make a build for me then because this would be my first good computer so I dont have a great understanding for computers. And but everyone says Oc'ing is lots better and allows you to get the full out of the cpu?

bombardinii wrote Yeah I plan on overclocking but as my budget was limited, I was going to keep it all at stock. Then after I get the extra money get a good cpu cooler and then oc. And well I originally planned to get 8gb of ram. But was then advised that 16gb makes lots more sense to get?

No, unless you're doing heavy streaming and editing, 8gb is fine.

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You have a pretty low budget to be overclocking

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You can overclock this. Bigger PSU, SSD, has a nice cooler as well

Alexyy wrote

bombardinii wrote Yeah I plan on overclocking but as my budget was limited, I was going to keep it all at stock. Then after I get the extra money get a good cpu cooler and then oc. And well I originally planned to get 8gb of ram. But was then advised that 16gb makes lots more sense to get?

Don't bother overclocking your cpu, costs too much for a less than 5% increase in performance.

Get a locked i5 and a b85 board and put all the money in your GPU and get a SSD.

960 isn't that great either.

I use the 96 and I'm very happy with it. No problems. Run all my games on high. Not 60FPS mind you..But I can't really notice any lag or such.

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Alexyy wrote

bombardinii wrote Yeah I plan on overclocking but as my budget was limited, I was going to keep it all at stock. Then after I get the extra money get a good cpu cooler and then oc. And well I originally planned to get 8gb of ram. But was then advised that 16gb makes lots more sense to get?

Don't bother overclocking your cpu, costs too much for a less than 5% increase in performance.

Get a locked i5 and a b85 board and put all the money in your GPU and get a SSD.

960 isn't that great either.

I use the 96 and I'm very happy with it. No problems. Run all my games on high. Not 60FPS mind you..But I can't really notice any lag or such.

Its not that it is bad, but overpriced. There are cheaper GPUs that perform better such as the 380.

I'd rather have a 970 than a 380/960.
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Thank-you for the builds. And I prefer Intel over AMD and I was only planning to Oc in the future. Because I want this computer to last rather then having to buy new parts in about a year. And be able to continue playing the new games.