whats your budget and what res are you gaming at ???? a Asrock Extreme 3 Gen 3 is fine i guess for a lower budget you got to sacrifice some thing i dont think you will upgrade very soon will you ??? and mind it that with a 2nd Gen i3 2120 you cant overclock that CPu at all buddy

 

My budget is fairly low. If i had to throw a price out. No More than 70$ on the PSU, 150$ on the Graphics Card, and I will be getting the 2120 and Extreme3 Gen3.
I will also be playing on a 21inch monitor if that changes anything. I will not be updating this build unless needs be in the future nor do I think Ill be needing to overclock the CPU.
I'd really like to know in what order should I buy my parts it may take a few months to have everything and I will be ordering from NewEgg.

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You can go cheaper on the board. It's a great board, I used to have one, but overclocking capabilities don't matter with an I3. Only a humble suggestion. Have a look at used Gtx 460 possibly. Still a solid performer and you could pick one up for 100$ or so if you look around. Perhaps hold off on CPU/board as ivy releases soon and many ppl will upgrade leaving good deals on used parts and prices will come down a bit. The same can be said for kepler as well. Maybe grab a hdd and psu now and wait on the rest.

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Here's a sim~build for you at $700, in just $2+ extra you get a powerful built, having a gtx 480 in it, with a decent motherboard having SATA 3 for your ssd & hdd sata 3 interface and a usb 3.0 for a budget price, no need to get a z68 for the corei3 cpu, save the money throw it in the videocard for maximum performance, the gtx 480 outperform the gtx 560ti by a wide margin. and a decent budget 80+ powersupply to get you going.

cpu Intel Core i3-2100 Sandy Bridge 3.1GHz LGA 1155 65W Dual-Core HD Graphics 2000 BX80623I32100 ~ $110

pcb ASRock H61M/U3S3 LGA 1155 ~ $70

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ssd Corsair Force Series 3 CSSD-F90GB3-BK 2.5" 90GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) ~ $135 - $30MIR= $105

hdd Seagate Barracuda Green ST1500DL003 1.5TB 5900 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive ~ $100+$7= $107 shipped

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psu Rosewill Green Series RG630-S12 630W Continuous @40°C 80+ ~ $60

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gpu EVGA 015-P3-1480-KR GeForce GTX 480 (Fermi) 1536MB 384-bit GDDR5 ~ $250

Total ~ $702.00

 

I'm going to be making a purchase tomorrow from NewEgg and I have a little over 130$

I'm going to go ahead and grab http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182200 unless this is better? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341017

And Maybe grab http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157236 while I'm at it. Unless of course I should just pick up a HDD?

 

for motherboard go with
ASRock H61ICAFE 70$
and for PSU go with

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371031&nm_mc=EMC-EXPRESS031012&cm_mmc=EMC-EXPRESS031012-_-EMC-031012-Index-_-PowerSupplies-_-17371031

$54.99 with promo code EMCYTZT1291, $34.99 after $20.00 MIR On sale this weekend,

Hope that helped

 

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I'm going to be making a purchase tomorrow from NewEgg and I have a little over 130$

I'm going to go ahead and grab http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182200 unless this is better?

the OCZ modxstream 600W is not a real 600W it is a 500W psu or less, its not worth the buy at $50, buy the rosewill 630W its a real 600W with headroom @ only $60

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for motherboard go with
ASRock H61ICAFE 70$

its $70 + $8 = $78 shipped

 

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for motherboard go with
ASRock H61ICAFE 70$

its $70 + $8 = $78 shipped

 

You might want to save a little to get the 2500k.

 

Okay and for PSU I should buy Roswell 630W or the Antec 620W? Pretty much going off what you guys think. And I'll be buying the ASRock H61ICAFE
along with the PSU today thanks.

I would love to get a 2500k but that's know where near my budget. Ill be playing a lot of Skyrim and I'm hoping the 2100 or 2120 is good enough for that.

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I guess the Antec would suffice.

 

Okay. Can I test my motherboard without a CPU?

 

No, you need a CPU to test it.

 

Got a little bit more cash. But I've really been thinking if I get the Extreme3 Gen3 and the i3 2120. And I were to upgrade to an i5 in a year or less would the Extreme3 Gen3 be good enough then?
I know we cant predict the future but how long has that Motherboard been in production? How long would it last? Okay thanks.

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