Nope, it will be more than RM 500, since you need PSU and chassis too.

AMD A4 6300 - RM 199
Corsair 4GB DDR3 1600MHz Value RAM - RM 124
MSI A68HM-E33 - RM 199
Cap ayam PC case ~ RM 50

Do you have PSU? If don't have, then you might need to buy cap ayam PSU to power up your system too.

Intel Pentium G3258 - RM 259
MSI H81M-P33 - RM 199
Sapphire R7 260X 2GB GDDR5 OC - RM 459
Kingston Hyper X Fury 8GB 1600MHz - RM 259
Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 7200RPM - RM 199
Thermaltake LitePower 500W Black Edition - RM 179
Thermaltake Versa H25 USB 3.0 Casing - RM 135

Total: RM 1689 (Viewnet price inclusive of GST)

If you want OC, you need to get Z series mobo, current one cannot use to OC, get a better quality PSU and aftermarket cooler is recommended if you want to OC.

If you still can find Z87 mobo, go for it, it is cheaper than Z97 for around RM 100.

As for PSU, get a Seasonic for better stability and performance.

You can get a cheap aftermarket cooler like CM TX3 EVO @RM 99 if you are not a heavy OC'er.

Since getting a Z series mobo and aftermarket cooler will eventually jack up the price, you might as well go for i3 which supports hyperthreading instead.

Intel Core i5 4460 - RM 719
Asrock B85M-HDS - RM 264

Total: RM 983 (Viewnet price inclusive of GST)

Intel processor is leading in gaming performance at the moment and most of the games favor Intel processor too.

If you are not going to oc, then no need to get a Z series mobo, the cheaper H series will do

And you don't need a water cooler to chill your processor since it is locked, a cheaper air cooler or will do the job.

Intel Core i7 4790 - RM 1199
Asrock H97-Pro4 - RM 369
Kingston HyperX Fury 8GB DDR3 1600MHz RAM x2 - RM 518
Leadtek GTX980 4GB GDDR5 Hurricane - RM 2179
Liteon S900 256GB SSD - RM 429
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 199
Seasonic M12II EVO 620W PSU - RM 379
CM Hyper 212X - RM 169
Thermaltake Versa H25 - RM 139

Total: RM 5580 (Viewnet price inclusive of GST)

More powerful GPU, bigger size SSD.

If cannot accept slight overbudget, reduce the SSD size to 128GB @RM 269 and the remaining budget can be invested in a better case.

Just change the following parts.

Intel Core i7 4790k - RM 1329
Asus Z97 PRO-GAMER - RM 663

Include a better cooler such as AIO water cooler if you want.

Corsair H100i GTX - RM 519

or cheaper CM Seidon 240M - RM 389

The rest of the budget can be used for bigger size SSD or better looking case.

Get Intel Core i5 4460, it beats AMD in gaming. As for brand, Asus, MSI and Gigabyte are "premium" brand in Malaysia here and tend to have higher "premium" price compared to other brands so if you are on tight budget, just get the cheaper brand and variant, it will just do the job fine, performance difference is small. As for PSU, for non oc build and Nvidia 9xx series card, 500W is already enough. And you don't need performance RAM, it won't help much in terms of performance, just get the value RAM. WD Black is overpriced, for 2TB, I would go for Seagate Barracuda, much cheaper. And lastly, if you are not going to oc, stock cooler will do the job fine but if you want it to run cooler, air cooler like CM Hyper 212X is a good choice.

The prices for the parts you stated above are outdated, hard to find those items at those prices now.

Intel Core i5 4460 - RM 719
Asrock B85M-HDS - RM 264
Kingston 8GB DDR3 1600MHz Value RAM - RM 229
Leadtek GTX960 2GB GDDR5 Hurricane GPU - RM 849
Seagate Barracuda 2TB HDD - RM 299
Seasonic M12II EVO 520W PSU - RM 299
CM Hyper 212X - RM 169
Thermaltake Versa H25 - RM 139
Logitech Wired MK100 combo - RM 39

Total: RM 3006 (Viewnet price inclusive of GST)

I will go for monitor because I have bad experience with HD TV, the text is not clear and the ppi is way lower than monitor which hurt my eyes. Low and mid end monitor normally have VGA, DVI, some of them have HDMI, higher end monitor will have DisplayPort. If you are using premium HD TV then I think it should be ok, just don't sit too near to it.

R9 280 comes with only 384 bits and I don't see any 2GB R9 card is more expensive than it.

About the aftermarket cooler, some of them are having more heat pipes which is more efficient in cooling the processor, some are expensive due to brand and the design.

Yes I know you are not talking about water cooler, the heat pipe I mentioned is something like this



The amount of heat pipe (bronze color) on the heatsink plays on important role in heat dissipation.

It is ok to swap but you will have to top up your budget tho.

Either reduce RAM to 8GB and remove the SSD or downgrade the GPU to GTX970.

Corsair and Kingston Value RAM are same, no performance difference between them. You can choose Kingston by topping up RM5.

Intel Core i5 4460 - RM 719
Asrock H81M-VG4 - RM 189
Kingston 4GB DDR3 1600MHz Value RAM - RM 119
Sapphire R7 260X 2GB GDDR5 GPU - RM 459
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 199
FSP Hexa+ 550W PSU - RM 159
Thermaltake Versa H25 - RM 139

Total: RM 1983 (Viewnet price inclusive of GST)

Of course the xeon, xeon has hyperthreading technology and will definitely help in future upcoming games as more games are utilizing the extra threads. Xeon build will also be cheaper since you do not have to spend another RM 200 for z series mobo and stock cooler will run fine too on xeon so you don't have to spend more to get an aftermarket cooler.

OEM PC's normally need to upgrade PSU as well if you are going to upgrade the GC, if you are getting a low end GC with only 300W needed, then your current PSU might be able to support, if you are getting a mid end or high end GC then you will need to get a new PSU.

Get an i3 if possible, the hyperthreading really helps in some games. The RAM can change to value RAM to save some money.

Intel Core i3 4150 - RM 402.80
Asrock H81M-VG4 - RM 178.08
Kingston 4GB DDR3 1600MHz Value RAM - RM 119
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 193.98
Sapphire R7 250X 1GB GDDR5 - RM 339.20
FSP Hexa+ 550W - RM 179
Aerocool V3X Advance - RM 104.94

Total: RM 1517 (Price with cents is from Jayacom, the rest is from Viewnet inclusive of GST)

Your current PC specs? Cannot recommend if we don't know your current PC specs.