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[Rylox]

I´ve bought a 130€ gaming wich i cant retourn atm but i can try to sell it for about 100€. I also listened to my ,,computer expert´´ Friend ( he´s dumb) and bought because of him a gtx 960 4gb for 250€ , a intel pentium g3258 cpu , 8gb ram and a overpriced z97 board (110€). I can give the cpu , board and gpu back. Should I do it , and if yes is it still worth to sell the case and invest the money for better parts? ( I would use the Pc with my 10 yo case until i could afford a better one). And wich parts should I buy ? I have 8gb ram , psu hdd ram cooler and 425€. Another option would be to keep the pc. ( sry for my bad english im from germany 😀 )

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[Bossyfins]

GPU you should give back since you can get a 970 for the same price. CPU I would also, and the mobo. So all of it really. A simple i5 w/ an h97 board would have been fine.

Try to return most of it, and then we can see how much budget you got and what components you have

 

[Rylox]

If i would be somehow able to sell the case i would have 500-530€ budget. But i wanna aim mostly on gaming so an i3 4160 would be enough for me.

 

[Bossyfins]

yea.

 

[Rylox]

so if you had 520€ budget for mainboard cpu and gpu wich ones would you buy?

 

[Bossyfins]

WHat do you have now?

 

[Rylox]

g3258 msi gtx 960 4gb 8gb ram psu hdd z97s msi krait board cooler and overpriced case

 

[Bossyfins]

Try to return the case, cpu, gpu, and board. And what PSU do you have? Like model

 

[Rylox]

i got an corsair cx 530 , and the biggest problem is cant return the case anymore :/ i´m trying right now to sell it

 

[Bossyfins]

I would first try to return the PSU.

 

[Rylox]

why ?

 

[Bossyfins]

The PSU is very low quality. For 500 pounds, you could get a better build with a psu.

So keep the ram, and the case, unless you sold it for a similar price you got it for.

This would be nicer

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4150 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor (£86.35 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: ASRock H97M PRO4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£67.16 @ Scan.co.uk)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£39.97 @ CCL Computers)
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 270X 2GB WINDFORCE Video Card (£129.98 @ Novatech)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£47.73 @ Amazon UK)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£75.34 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £446.53
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-05-28 17:35 BST+0100

 

[Rylox]

Thank for the help ^^ , i do have 1 last question wheres the difference between z97 h97 and b85 chips?

 

[Bossyfins]

So Intel releases chipsets every so generation, currently we are at 97 and x99.

Basically, if a "Z" or "X"(only for X99) infront of the chipset, this will allow you to OverClock and have an SLI/CrossFire setup.

H97 is like Z97 except you can not Overclock which is why its cheaper due to less needed parts, and has disabled SLI but has Cross Fire.

B85 is part of the Z87 chipset, its has no OCING, or SLI support.

hope that clears it a bit