OP:
I would suggest not to buy PC for that money. You cannot get decent build, better safe some more money or buy second hand parts. I would go for i5 2500k second hand combined with second-hand cheap Z77 board: http://www.behardware.com/articles/870-5...d-msi.html
CPU Cooling- Thermalright True Spirit 140 or Cooler Master 212 EVO - whatever from both that you can find cheaper, better second hand too.
cheapest possible case that allows mounting of 1 120 vent back and 1 120 vent front.
1 Cheap new 200-300 GB HDD with the idea to update later with SSD and bigger storage drive.
Till here you already spend around 300$.
You need 8 RAM (that would be even more expensive if you does not buy now because of the DDR4 and the stop of the production of DDR3) I would go second hand too so you can safe some money.
Then you must find some GPU and PSU. You cannot safe by any of both if you want gaming PC, second hand GPU is option but buy new PSU.
So go ebaying I guess. New i3 is waste of money, low grade GPU is waste of money as well. The GPU that you proposed is total crap and wont be useful at all. You can forget aiming even for 2 years with this card and CPU. Also with this tight budget I would not go for Hasswell , considering that Haswell delivers 15% more performance per Ghz not OCed and if we count OC around 5% more, meanwhile the boards and CPUs cost 30-40% more compared with the equal parts of Intel older Sandy and Ivy.
Cheap cooler for 30-40$ like the ones that I mentioned would cool the i5-2500k 3.3 Ghz stock to 4.8Ghz (at home chilling on 60 C° under load with 30$ cooler) OC that is equal on Haswell running at 4.4( Friend of mine using Corsair H100i for 120$ and getting 80 C° under load) .
The difference in price is 40% since Haswell 4670k needs expensive cooling to run at 4.4, the mobos are more expensive and the cpu itself cost 2x secondhand i5-2500k.
(10-14-2013, 09:40 AM)evanz Wrote: after couple weeks my psu popped
This happens only if you have some no-name brand bad PSU. For normal single card applications real 500-600W is more then enough, your card draws 300W max and your cpu draws 125-130 W max you power the rest of your stuff and have another 20% to cover the efficiency lost. 560 ti is just example of shitty card that drains 450 W under full load.
(10-09-2013, 10:51 AM)Knjaz Wrote: Official faction players that are often accused of elitism, never deploy them and have those weird, immersion killing "fair fight/dueling" suicidal hobbies. (yes, i've seen enough of those lolduels, where house military with overwhelming force on the field willingly loses a pilot in a duel. ffs.)
