This is my parts list for my upcoming gaming pc..
http://pcpartpicker.com/user/bladough/saved/FT9KHx
Is there any suggestions or recommendations you guys have? And will it be enough to run modern games?
what do you play? what resolution? whats your budget? what country?
assuming us/1080/the build you showed, this is my suggestion, but it will have trouble with some games
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/7cqc3C
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I don't think it will be enough to run modern games well. You would at least need a 6100 to run The Division, for example.
Well I would play all the fallout games, batman arkham city, skyrim, gta games
What's the budget? I'll go ahead and assume 1080p is the res you play at.
All together It's $480-$500 without peripherals
Does that price include windows or is it just for the hardware?
Just the hardware..
This is what i came up with in the little time i have available
Just a hair over your budget (but the case personal preferance i only picked it cuz cheap silverstone) and it should play those games fairly well but obviously not at highest settings. Keep in mind this was a quick throw-together so someone might come along and improve it for me as I'm out of time now.
if budget is 500
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/L8ZtVn
slightly better i3, and ram.
total cost $498.79
the gpu is on sale atm so you might want to get it before it goes up again.
Yeah, my bad lol. It wasn't that great though, just slapped haphazardly together.
i3 6100
Gskill NT 2400 ddr4 (2x4GB)
1TB seagate barracuda
Some cheap h110 mobo
GTX 960? iirc
cheap 80+ bronze/gold psu 500w
and a cheap silverstone case (but case is all personal preferance)
It came out to $502 before mail in rebates, etc
The temptation to skimp on core components should not be taken lightly. I've seen a fair number of people buy FX-4100's or Core i3's and wind up replacing them later, dramatically killing the cost efficiency of the build. When I got my 3570k system, I was used an ancient Pentium D system, so the intel IGP was actually already a tangible step up, and I ran sans GPU for several months. In Canada, GPU prices are awful right now. If you're comfortable buying used, I've found GTX 660's and GTX 670's for about half the price of their new performance equivalents.
Getting a nice platform and getting a used "beater" GPU and running that for a couple years before buying a high-end GPU seems like the financially sensible thing to do. Also, 1TB HDD's are no longer at the value sweet spot they once were, at least in Canada. Toshiba makes 3TB drives based on Hitachi tech that are crazy cheap, I replaced the drives in my server and desktop with them and am very happy. I really suggest boot SSD's, but if you run an HDD for a year you can save up and won't suffer as much until fragmentation really kicks in.
I would argue that you should at least get an AM3+ 6-core or an Intel i5 quad. If you go the AMD route, get a motherboard with good VRM cooling, because those get toasty. Something like an i5-4590 and a basic B85, H97 or H87 board should be fairly cheap, or go skylake if pricing in your region is fair. I don't think AMD Zen will fundamentally change the market dynamic, and if that's the case, a punchy CPU should last you 5+ years, so don't cheap out! I mean, my 3570k hasn't lost much potency since 2012 or whenever I got it, and with PCIE 3.0 I can plop in a new GPU every few years... 10 year build?