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    First time builder looking for advice on potential build to ensure best bang for buck

    Ok awesome thanks getting 8G means I can afford a Gigabyte GeeForce GTX 970 G1 Gaming 4G .....or 3.5G really :P
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    First time builder looking for advice on potential build to ensure best bang for buck

    Haha had just come to that conclusion myself I did umm and ah about that but decided as I like to multi-task task having many windows and tabs open I might as well since it was $5 cheaper than the corsair was that the wrong call to make?
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    First time builder looking for advice on potential build to ensure best bang for buck

    Actually will probably get pure rock instead of fans
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    First time builder looking for advice on potential build to ensure best bang for buck

    Thanks for all the advice made a revised build what do you think? Microsoft Windows 8.1 32/64-bit Retail DVD NZXT Phantom 530 Case Black Kingston Hyper X Fury HX318C10FRK2/16 16GB (2x8GB) Red Gigabyte Z97X-GAMING 3 Motherboard Samsung SH-224DB 24x DVDRW OEM CoolerMaster V850 80 Plus Gold 850W...
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    First time builder looking for advice on potential build to ensure best bang for buck

    Okay I'll have a better look the coolers just didn't seem up to the same standard but maybe that was just an aesthetics bias I'm also not sure how I feel about the additional heat and noise output of the 290 after some more research but going to keep looking into it as the frame rates are pretty...
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    First time builder looking for advice on potential build to ensure best bang for buck

    Saphire and XFX are the only two they they have for the R9 280x however was doing some more searching and I can get an ASUS 290 for only $30 more than my MSI which I can afford if I only buy one fan (Was going to buy 3 with the new case choice but it does come with a 200mm and 140mm)
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    First time builder looking for advice on potential build to ensure best bang for buck

    Brands with coolers that have worse stats and reputation. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong it might not be as much of a big deal as I think I am but a noob.
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    First time builder looking for advice on potential build to ensure best bang for buck

    Hey thanks for the quick responses guys unfortunately my E-mail decided to put it in the wrong folder. Yeah I decided to do that and also change the case to a Phantom-530 Thank you very much for the advice though the range is so over whelming. I live in Australia am using PCcasegear.com and my...
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    First time builder looking for advice on potential build to ensure best bang for buck

    I'm ordering the parts for my new computer soon and am already massively over my original budget. I am a gamer but mostly just playing League of Legends at the moment I spend a lot of time multitasking on my computer this is my planned build: Intel Core i5 4690K Gigabyte Z97X-GAMING 3...
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    Motherboard tier list: Z97 chipset

    Trying to decide between a Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 3 and Asus Z97-A and as good as this list was it didn't really help advice please?