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jmsh180

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Hello, I am going to build a gaming pc and i'm just wondering if anyone has any advice. Will there be any problems with these parts/incompatibilities?

CPU - AMD FX-8370
Motherboard - ASUS CROSSHAIR V-
FORMULA-Z
GPU - Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 GPU 4GB
RAM - G Skill 16G(4X4G) DDR3 2133MHZ
HDD - Seagate SATA3 3TB 7200RPM
SSD - Samsung 120GB SSD 850 EVO
Case - Corsair Obsidian Series 450D



 
You could also then later upgrade the i3 to up to i7 since they use same socket.

While i3 would work for gaming just as well as FX-8xxx, I would still try to get i5.

Even if it means dropping RAM from 16 to 8Gb. You don't really yet need 16gb RAM. 8Gb is plenty.