Is this a good gaming pc (I built)

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GPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965 (4 x 3.4 GHz) 8MB - Black Edition
High 8 MB

CPU heatsink: Arctic Cooling Freezer A30 - Ultra Quiet Fan

Power supply: Cooler Master 500W PSU - Low Noise

Memory: Corsair 8GB XMS3 PC3-10666 1333MHz (2x4GB)

Motherboard: Asus M5A87 (AMD 870)

Sound: Creative Sound Blaster Recon3D Fatal1ty Professional (PCI-E)

Ram: 1tb

The question is what graphics card should I get and is it good as it is

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Ekaros

GPU is a failure. For gaming.

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tomgould

There is no GPU mentioned..

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Wh1teD

First line.

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tomgould

That's a CPU. GPU is a graphics card.

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Wh1teD

Goddammit. GPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965 (4 x 3.4 GHz) 8MB - Black Edition High 8 MB

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ZestyMcZest

I might be missing something here but... that's a CPU. It has no integrated graphics either.

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LoneMerc2

Wh1teD - You're not getting it mate. GPU = Graphical Processing Unit. CPU = Central Processing Unit. A huge difference you're just not seeing. CPU is a chip, a GPU is a graphics card being simpler terms.

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tomgould

1Tb ram is fairly impressive.

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kalekip1

he fails, lol

Maximum RAM is 32 GB, if I am right. The motherboards can't take bigger ones. And 8 GB should be enough.

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LoneMerc2

1TB ram made me LOL. As did the whole post tbf. He could certainly do with reading some guides about PC hardware. Lifehacker has a great one for beginners.

kalekip1 - Not really, although 32gb is usually the maximum most of the time. I've seen some motherboards supporting up to 128gb (mental!). 16gb of high speed 1600MHz ram should technically be more than enough for gaming.

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hymie8

1tb ram, seems legit

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Yusuf1653

No. Maybe you should get some help from tomshardware.com

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Raito1337

You shouldn't be so cheap on the ram, make it 2tb.

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RetsuSeiba

^What this guy said. Unless you want to run Crysis on a res bigger than 640x480, then 4tb RAM is the absolute minimum.

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SauSje

Get i5-2500k, good and solid cpu that will last you ATLEAST 5-6 years.

This one is already a few generations old (it was my previous one), upgraded to i7-2600k (2500k is virtually the same with games) and i noticed a MASSIVE difference.

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SuddleD

Looks good, just double the memory, power supply & hard drive space, upgrade to SSD and get a GTX 600 series video card and you will be good :0P

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Constus

Only 1To Ram ? Tsss... You won't be even able to run Terraria with it !

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wkw427

Coolermaster power supplies are failures, are going to fail, and possibly take the rest of your computer with it.

Good choice on the most important part of a computer

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AntLion

AMD Phenom II X4 965 (4 x 3.4 GHz) 8MB - Black Edition is CPU but not GPU.

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sN1pz0r

1tb ram? dont you mean hard drive?

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ibanez543

you may need to edit your op XD

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SemiJames

Helpful guide.

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Onomatopesha

If you're planning to game, i'd go for an Intel instead of an AMD, but that should be fine.

As for the GPU, i really can't say anything since you didn't specify the model of the PSU, and 500w is near the limit for pretty much any mid-ranged GPU.

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trancers

get nvidia graphics card and intel cpu

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saltybill

for graphics cards, look for something with directx 11! if you can afford it. or the highest directx version you can find within your budget. mine craps out if I try to run anything dx10+ (despite it being dx10 compatible... figure that one out)

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HillaryClinton

I feel like you should have a basic understanding of the computer parts first....

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PedroVarela20

I actually don't know if he's serious.

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ChrisITA

1TB RAM?!?!? ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?!? GET 4TB!

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TheDocDrey

Looks good, you could also instead of 1333Mhz RAM replace it with 1600Mhz, and for the GPU I`d say a nVidia 560Ti will suit the sistem perfectly. Happy shopping!

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saltybill

"could" but he'd have to overclock it... which if you're not sure what you're doing, probably mess something up.

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TheDocDrey

Well its a ASUS mobo so its just go to BIOS and change 1 setting, but yea, youre probably right, from hes post he doesn`t seem to "shine" at PC knowlegde.

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Andarus

Phenom II X4 965 OR Core i3-3220
HD 6870
Samsung SSD 830 128GB

= WIN

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Stealthsnakenl

my gameboy color is way more high end.

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SnarkovX

buy this for me, 16gigs of ram is enough for me, so its a win-win

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venomblade

The CPU is decent for the price and for gaming, but it's starting to show it's age. What is your max budget so we can recommend a gpu. Also, if you aren't am audiophile, you most likely won't need a dedicated sound card, so you can save money there. Also, not enough ram.

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iBeatz

Whooops I meant 1tb hard drive sorry guys just realised it was my stupid friend talking to my whilst I was writing :/

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Bigshrimp

You know you can edit your post.

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