Hi Sup Forums, I'm building a pc for gaming for the first time in my life. I've always been a PC gamer at heart...

Hi Sup Forums, I'm building a pc for gaming for the first time in my life. I've always been a PC gamer at heart, but I've always been 10 years behind technology wise due to being a poorfag. I'm looking to build a pc that can do high/ultra settings on DX12 at 1080p with todays games. I figure that'll get me a good few years before I'll need to upgrade. Here's what I've come up with after about a week of lazy research. What do you think? Am I missing something totally obvious that'll fuck up my build or am I wasting money in any particular area? I'm trying to be as cost effective as possible. Any feedback much appreciated.

CPU: Intel Pentium G4560 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor ($59.63 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: MSI B250M PRO-VD Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($64.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($57.88 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Sandisk SSD PLUS 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($74.99 @ Jet)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($47.69 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB GAMING X Video Card ($269.89 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: EVGA 430W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply ($29.89 @ OutletPC)

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looks fine

Thanks for the input

Needs more RAM and a better PSU

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it's former Sup Forums nerd falcon and others made a site for picking parts that are good

why would anyone buy a dual core in 2017?

>I'm looking to build a pc that can do high/ultra settings on DX12 at 1080p with todays games
Not with that processor. Get an i5.

8GB is enough.

No game runs faster with >8GB yet.

Pretty much no programs do either.

Look up benchmarks.

Only reason to have more than 8GB is for running VMs

i say this as a fa

I say this as a fag who got 16GB. Well I've never seen it even halfway utilized yet.

Processor is going to bottleneck you. You won't need 2400 RAM if it can save you some money as well.

But yeah, get a decent midrange i5. Doesn't have to be one of the latest series, just at least mid tier. Overclockable preferable because you can always squeeze out future performance later once you get a good HSF/liquid cooling closed loop AIO.

wouldn't any more be overkill? Do games use much more than 4GB these days?

As for the PSU, I wasn't planning on doing any overclocking, but how much wattage do I need in your opinion? Thanks

Thanks for the tip, I'm looking at it now

This processor is highly touted as being able to pull off 60fps. It's recommended everywhere for budget builds

Would any i5 be enough?
As mentioned I'm on a shoestring budget, and I don't particularly need more than a steady 60fps

What's the cheapest you'd recommend to not bottleneck me?

>This processor is highly touted as being able to pull off 60fps.
By who? In what game? With what settings?

High/Ultra settings is not a budget build thing

Thanks, this is what I'd heard

Yeah just get the lowest spec i5 of Skylake or Kaby Lake. They can be overclocked later on for more juice. (this is a new thing starting with skylake)

The PSU wattage is fine. Just get a better brand.

68 fps in The Witcher 3, DX12, 1080p according to this video by digital foundry. Apparently due to it's hyperthreading it's particularly good bang for buck

forgot video

youtube dot com watch?v=H-aP0JqJkJ0

>but I've always been 10 years behind technology wise due to being a poorfag.
you aren't missing out on anything.

Why are you doing that user?

You know you can post links right?

Recent gaming sessions have included

C&C Red Alert open source
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
Doom (1993)
Civ IV (runs pretty bad in late game, turns taking up to 45 seconds)
S.T.A.L.K.E.R on lowest settings at 640x480 and still runs like garbage (12-20 fps in battle)
BF1942 (runs great)

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He's using a Titan X as the GPU in that video.

I got this old office PC as a hand-me-down. Without replacing the motherboard and the no-name 285-watt PSU, what components should I get to make this shitbox into a low/mid tier gaming rig that can reasonably play something like GTAV at 30+ FPS on medium/high settings? Bonus points if it's on the cheap.

I was thinking of getting a 750ti for that rig.
The CPU is a dual-core @2.5GHz from a mild OC from 2.0GHz. RAM is maxed out IIRC.

Sup Forums directly embeds youtube videos you faggot, you clearly fucked up some how

youtube.com/watch?v=H-aP0JqJkJ0

Nothing in there is useable. Athlon II is ancient. The board probably doesn't support anything very much more powerful, and it will bottleneck any modern game's GPU usage.

Save the drives. That's about all you can do.

If you're going to upgrade piecemeal, start with the GPU I guess, then go from there. You can at least drop in a GPU to see if that helps with GTAV any. Get a GTX 1060. If it still runs like shit, then upgrading your CPU is next, and that's gonna require a new MOBO and new RAM as well.

youtube.com/watch?v=KFsrSCVgbCQ

Here's a few benchmarks paired with a gtx 1060, seems to do pretty well to me.

Huh. That's actually pretty good. I am surprised.

A better psu could be a good idea but, hell I mean I ran a Strix 1070xFX 8350 for over a year and never ran into any problems.
In fact it was that very 430W edition.

Enjoy spending all that money on a PC to play decade old games.

I would really try to get at least an i5 Skylake cpu.

get a playstation

>Spending all that money instead of buying a PS4

Still better than playing movies

You're an idiot, this will be a sub par computer with no upgrade path and disappointing performance. Save the fuck up for a few more months.

>Play GTAV
>Constant popups from Windows that it has reverted to basic theme since it's out of "performance" when it means RAM.
>Got more ram for cheap because why not
>Suddenly I realize that I hadn't gotten any popups when playing GTAV.
>Turns out today's console games think it needs 8GB of RAM since the consoles have 8GB unified RAM, while the game then ported to PC don't know how to use VRAM and DDRAM correctly, or because GTAV is just a RAM hog on max settings.

TL;DR GET MORE RAM, and a PSU that isn't running at full load all the time.

CEMU almost hits max ram at 16

If you want to stream high end games you need better processor thats about it