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Hi, a friend of me needs a new pc instead of his old dell, and since he games in console he said he'll give pc gaming a try, here is what am planning on getting for him, is there any better choices to go with?

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/6m7zhM

I know it's 600$ on pcpartpicker but we live in dubai, these components sum up to 810$ here
 
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Decent build
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Originally Posted by lilj View Post

Oh great, Will it be able to run latest titles or even upcoming games maxed out at 1080p??, sorry i have been out of the game for quite some time
Depends on the game. I have an equal graphc card and a bit weaker CPU (but overclocked, so it's not a big difference), and 8 Gb of RAM and on 1080p I can max:
Assassin's Creed 4
Battlefield 3
Diablo 3
StarCraft 2
Tomb Raider

What I can't max:
Thief
NFS Most Wanted

Without Mantle, I get about 25-30FPS avg in Thief, with Mantle I get 40-45FPS average, which still is far from 60, and I get some drops down to 30, so I can't say I can max it.

But new games are so quickly produced and so terribly optimized, it's not a problem in the build. Techically it has the computing power to max today's graphics, however due to game's horrid coding, you might be getting less than desired results.
 
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Depending on what is available to you locally you could probably get a little bit cheaper mobo, RAM and if necessary CPU then grab a 280X. Alternatively depending on your regional pricing/availability you could take it half way and just grab a R9 280. Otherwise apart from having a slightly overpriced mobo/RAM then your system is pretty good for the price.
 
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Unless the machine is going to be overclocked I would advise doing a build around an i3-4150 instead of the FX-6300. For gaming the arrangement of execution resources on the i3 is generally better. In poorly threaded compute intensive games, the i3 will have up to a ~50% advantage in minimum FPS. In games that are very well threaded, they will actually perform about the same as performance scaling from parallelism is not proportional in real time workloads. In most cases, an i3-4150 build on a nice B85 board will cost about the same as an FX-6300 build on a nice 970 board, and the feature sets are generally similar.

The FX-6300 would be a good value option if you were going to opt for the UD3P, a high value HSF, and overclock it to ~4.5ghz. This can get the 6300 into at least Intel i5 bridge era gaming performance. (like an i5-2500). Problem is, I get the feeling based on the fact that this is a dell replacement, that this is not going to be a performance tuning rig, in which case, the i3 offers a better starting point, and actually has somewhere to go upgrade wise (E3-1231V3, for example, which will mop the floor with anything you can put on the AM3+ platform at any practical clock speed).
 
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