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My first post on the forums and it's come to this part obviously.

I'm trying to put together a decent mid range gaming PC.

Budget = $600-$700 US

Preferably would like to order everything from amazon since it's easier to ship to my country (Trinidad).

Peripherals I already have are Case,mouse+keyboard and media drive(Dvd bay).

As stated in topic this PC will generally be for gaming.

I do not intend to Overclock.

No water cooling and I already have my OS.

 

I've been looking between i5 and AMD chip-sets and have no real preference so any advice on a solid build would be greatly appreciated

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Hey Vokal

In my opinion AMD give you more bang for your buck. Intel will have higher performing parts but you pay more for them. If your main objective is gaming your GPU is going to be more important than you CPU unless you decide to go for an APU.

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Check in with a Xeon E3 1230v3 from intel, same power of an i7 but at an i5 price point. I have one my self works great on almost any z87 mobo. I'm running a msi g45 z87 and it works amazingly, this thing flys. And for intel it's some what cheap. And it for sure knocks any amd 8 core out of the park. 

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And it does not over clock! There really is no need to, and it runs cool! Well it only hit 100 Celsius on stagnant air, and about 40 when I realized when the fan on the heat sync wasn't spinning... but these were both on full load!

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Hi Vokal,

I've put together a build for you here: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/DxCDnQ

It turned out very similar to a build Logan did last year here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8pEQul6o5w

Edit: Swapped out the PSU on Some Tech Noob's recommendation. A quick Google search showed he was correct.

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http://pcpartpicker.com/p/r8GjvK

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Super slow SSD and cheap quality power supply :L.

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http://pcpartpicker.com/p/svH4P6

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How does it knock a sub $200 8 core out of the park when it costs $250 and has a lower passmark score? It doesn't even natively support 1866 memory. Also not having the option to overclock isn't a feature, what if he wants to overclock later on down the road?

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Thanks alot for the replies guys, I'm gonna go through the partpickers and setup something and respond here after :D.

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Vokal  you'll like this ... all ships from Amazon ... 

Total .... $701.93

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/p4HRnQ

  •  AMD Athlon X4 760K 3.8GHz Quad-Core Processor
  • MSI A78M-E35 Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard

  • Kingston Fury Black Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory

  • A-Data Premier Pro SP900 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive

  • Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive

  • Sapphire Radeon R9 280X 3GB Dual-X Video Card

  • Corsair Builder 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply

 Estimated Wattage .......  444W  ....  well under recommended 80% usage

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The ram and cpu cooler prices did not show up in your build