C'mon! Unless they use a new engine, your current setup is more than enough to run BF5 on ultra

ooooh that Diablo patch news o3o, might have to dive back into the game when that lands since I haven't touched the game since last year.

Also wondering about Battlefield 5 as I dropped the series since 3 and 4 never interested me. I do hope they manage to increase the level of destruction and make a decent campaign/MP to drag me back in.

WHen will pascal be realeased and any infoa but price

what about broadwell-e

im too lazy to google it

Pretty nice, you actually manged to stay very close to 500€. I had to go slightly over budget since I couldn't find a decent case.

Speaking of case, as it stands there, your's gonna be problematic, as there isn't any casefan installed as far as I can see. That's gonna build up a lot of heat inside the case, and with it, very loud CPU and PSU fans (trust me, I speak from bad experience). With one or 2 additional casefans (6-15€) you could solve that problem

Here's my 500€ build:

30€ more expensive, but comes with 2 casefans (1x140mm, 1x120mm) and 2 frontal USB3.0 connectors. Curiously, Win 10 is 3€ cheaper in english than in german despite being on the german site.

Yeah I'm definitely seeing this group along with my mate (Kitchen Sink) as a good means to modify my build and I have been thinking of making a second build possibly late next year if not the year after.

Thats exactly when i neeede it to release

thhanks

I'm bit sceptical about non-hyperthreaded dual-core CPUs, it's the reason why I went with Athlon 860K in my original $500 build, but I guess after extensive Pentium G vs 860K benchmarks like this one:

http://www.techspot.com/review/1017-best-budget-gaming-cpu/page2.html

here's my LGA 1151 $500 build:

PCPartPicker part list

CPU: Intel Pentium G4400 3.3GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($62.99 @ NCIX US)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper TX3 54.8 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  ($18.73 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H110M-A Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($41.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws 4 series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($44.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($49.98 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 950 2GB Video Card  ($128.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mid Tower Case  ($29.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 430W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($24.99 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit)  ($89.88 @ OutletPC)
Keyboard: Logitech MK120 Wired Slim Keyboard w/Optical Mouse  ($8.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $501.52

Some corners had to be cut compared to 860K build, namely less HDD space and only 2 RAM slot MB...still concerned about compatibility of future games and non-hyperthreaded dual-cores, but at least it's easily upgradable.

Would be nice of them to drop some sort of hints =P

Nice build. As I said, I had quite some troubles to make my PC within the budget, and the case&PSU combo was the part that ended up with the worse part.

The main reason to go with the G4400 was this article

http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Pentium-G4400-CPU-260954/Tests/Intel-Pentium-G4400-Test-1179178/

In german, but if you jump to the fourth part, the one with benchmarks graphs, you'll see that when it comes to games it offers the same or better performance than even the AMD CPU I used on my 700 € build... which means that I'll have to reconsider that.

Also, it's quite obvious that you guys in the US have a clear advantage in price. The cheapest 950 that I could find was almost 170 €, and there's no way in hell that I could find a good PSU for that price, not even the ones from unknown brands.