Chrome is a memory hog, 4GB isn't enough already for 2015, 8GB is the new minimum.

Fallout 4 minimum requirements for the GPU is a HD7870 and your GPU is way too far from achieving the minimum requirements, with 1k budget I will suggest you to get another 4/8GB RAM + GTX960 first, SSD can be added later as SSD will only speed up the PC boot time, app opening time etc.

8GB Value RAM - RM 200
Cheapest GTX960 - RM 799

DDR4 is only usable on Skylake (6th gen) and Haswell-E (4th gen i7 Extreme series).

Yours is DDR3 but since your current RAM is 1333MHz, so if you get 1600MHz, it will be downclocked to 1333MHz to match the speed of the slowest RAM, this is still fine because performance gap between them is small and you won't notice much difference in real life usage. Or if you want to run at 1600MHz, you can completely remove your old RAM and use the new RAM only, 8GB is enough for now.

Your PSU is 500W, no issue supporting GTX960. The same tier AMD GPU which is R9 380 is priced slightly higher than GTX960 and it draws more power than GTX960, your PSU is still able to power it but I'll suggest you to stick with GTX960 for the time being to save cost and Fallout 4 is another nvidia gameworks title, meaning nvidia GPU will have slight advantage over AMD.

If you want other brands, you can consider Zotac, it is just slightly more expensive than Gainward reference unit.

This post has been edited by terence_nwb: Oct 30 2015, 10:32 PM

Budget for the build?

Edit: Checked back few posts, it seems like your budget is 3k right?

This post has been edited by terence_nwb: Oct 31 2015, 05:38 PM

For gaming? If yes then i5 + GTX970 is much better than i7 + GTX960. GPU is more important than CPU when we talk about gaming, getting an i7 and a mid end GPU won't give you the high or ultra settings that you want. So spend more on GPU instead, go for GTX970 and i5 and you will get almost 2x the performance of GTX960 and i7.

Intel Core i5 6500 - RM 875
MSI B150M Bazooka D4 - RM 409
Kingston HyperX Fury 8GB DDR4 2400MHz RAM - RM 289
Palit GTX970 4GB GDDR5 Jetstream - RM 1399
Liteon S900 256GB SSD - RM 409
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 225
Seasonic S12II 620W - RM 349
Thermaltake Versa H25 - RM 139

Total: RM 4094 (Techview price inclusive of GST)

GTX750 isn't really enough for Fallout 4 to be honest, you are just under the min requirements, if you are ok with low/med settings then it should be fine.

And about the upgrade ability, Haswell is currently being replaced by Skylake now, so in terms of CPU upgrade, nope, not possible to jump from Haswell to next gen CPU due to socket difference, but you still can upgrade to Haswell i7 next time if you want. As for GPU, no issue there since the board is also using latest PCI-E 3.0. If you can find MSI B85M-E45, then get it instead of the Asus board, it comes with additional 2 RAM slots for future upgrade when needed.

So the budget includes the OS license key too? If yes, then not much you can squeeze anymore because genuine key is quite expensive here, it would take maybe 10% of your budget

Intel Core i7 6700 - RM 1320
Gigabyte H170 Gaming 3 - RM 589
GSKill NT 8GB DDR4 2133MHz RAM - RM 249
Palit GTX980 4GB GDDR5 Jetstream - RM 2235
Seasonic M12II EVO 620W - RM 409
Bitfenix NOVA - RM 149

Total: RM 4951 (Idealtech price inclusive of GST)

Agree

Intel Core i7 6700 - RM 1399
MSI B150M Bazooka D4 - RM 409
Kingston HyperX Fury 16GB (8GB x 2) DDR4 2400MHz RAM - RM 569
Gainward GTX960 2GB GDDR5 Reference - RM 799
Liteon S900 256GB SSD - RM 409
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 225
FSP Hexa+ 550W - RM 189
Thermaltake Versa H25 - RM 139

Total: RM 4138 (Techview price inclusive of GST)

Any specific brand for GPU that is better than others? The answer is depend on your luck, even those expensive "premium" brands like Asus, MSI, Gigabyte also have chance to fail/problem in just few weeks/months time, so just get the one with longest warranty period, like Zotac, 5 years warranty.

Your budget can fit SSD so no need to spend at SSHD, the 8GB SSD in SSHD doesn't really bring any significant speed improvement.

Intel Core i5 6500 - RM 875
MSI B150M Bazooka D4 - RM 409
Kingston HyperX Fury 8GB DDR4 2400MHz RAM - RM 289
Zotac GTX970 4GB GDDR5 ZT-90101-10P - RM 1479
Liteon S900 256GB SSD - RM 409
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 225
Seasonic S12II 620W - RM 349
Thermaltake Versa H25 - RM 139

Total: RM 4174 (Techview price inclusive of GST)

You picked a Haswell CPU, so the mobo and RAM listed above need to be changed due to compability issue.

So you are buying the parts in Penang? Not much choices then because product range is limited there. You can try to find Hikari85 in Garage Sales, she has a shop in Butterworth.

Her profile link here

FB Page here

Try to ask here

Intel Core i7 6700 - RM 1399
MSI B150M Bazooka D4 - RM 409
Kingston HyperX Fury 8GB DDR4 2400MHz RAM - RM 289
Palit GTX970 4GB GDDR5 Reference - RM 1325
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 225
FSP Hexa+ 550W - RM 189
Thermaltake Versa H25 - RM 139

Total: RM 3975 (Techview price inclusive of GST)

You can downgrade the GPU to GTX960 and get a better PSU or add in SSD since GTX960 is sufficient for Dota 2 and Payday 2. The GTX970 I picked is just for future proof just in case you want to play other latest games, you still have a decent GPU to run them.

Will use Haswell instead of Skylake due to budget unable to fit Skylake hardware.

And the price of GTX950 is just too close to GTX960, not worth the money.

Intel Core i3 4170 - RM 495
Asus H81M-K - RM 229
Kingston HyperX Fury 8GB DDR3 1600MHz RAM - RM 220
Gainward GTX960 2GB GDDR5 Reference - RM 799
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 225
FSP Hexa+ 550W - RM 189
CM N200 - RM 185

Total: RM 2342 (Techview price inclusive of GST)

At least RM 600 is needed and you will be upgraded to Skylake i5 because Skylake i3 still not yet reach Malaysia, or you can just wait until the Skylake i3 stocks arrive first then only buy the parts.

Intel Core i5 6500 - RM 875
MSI B150M Bazooka D4 - RM 409
Kingston HyperX Fury 8GB DDR4 2400MHz RAM - RM 289
Gainward GTX750 1GB GDDR5 - RM 439
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 225
FSP Hexa+ 400W - RM 155
Thermaltake Versa H25 - RM 139

Total: RM 2531 (Techview price inclusive of GST)

Intel Core i5 6500 - RM 875
MSI B150M Bazooka D4 - RM 409
Kingston HyperX Fury 8GB DDR4 2400MHz RAM - RM 289
Zotac GTX960 2GB GDDR5 ZT-90306-10M - RM 840
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 225
Superflower Leadex 550W SF-550F14M PSU - RM 299

Total: RM 2937 (Techview price inclusive of GST)

If you want keep below < 2.9k, you can downgrade the GPU to reference card (RM 799) or swap the PSU to non modular unit like FSP Hexa+ 550W (RM 189).

Totally fine, add more casing fans or get 3rd party cooler only if you are not satisfied with the temperature or when you think the stock cooler is just too noisy for you.

X4 860K is tier 3 CPU for now, you will have better performance with Intel Core i3 (tier 2) at about the same price.

Need to know your exact PSU model.

Intel Core i5 6500 - RM 875
MSI B150M Bazooka D4 - RM 409
Kingston HyperX Fury 8GB DDR4 2400MHz RAM - RM 289
Zotac GTX970 4GB GDDR5 Reference - RM 1350
Thermaltake Versa H25 - RM 139

Total: RM 3062 (Techview price inclusive of GST)

You can top up another RM 130 to get a non-reference GTX970 (Zotac is the cheapest from Techview) which runs cooler than reference card.

Can fit Skylake with 3K budget without monitor but SSD has to be dropped out, else will over budget.

Intel Core i5 6500 - RM 875
MSI B150M Bazooka D4 - RM 409
Kingston HyperX Fury 8GB DDR4 2400MHz RAM - RM 289
Zotac GTX960 2GB GDDR5 ZT-90306-10M - RM 840
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 225
FSP Hexa+ 550W - RM 189
Thermaltake Versa H25 - RM 139

Total: RM 2966 (Techview price inclusive of GST)

If you want to adopt to latest Intel Skylake DDR4 platform,

Intel Core i5 6500 - RM 875
MSI B150M Bazooka D4 - RM 409
Kingston HyperX Fury 8GB DDR4 2400MHz RAM - RM 289

Total: RM 1573 (Techview price inclusive of GST)

Stock cooler runs fine, if temperature is not satisfied, only get 3rd party cooler.

This post has been edited by terence_nwb: Nov 3 2015, 07:13 AM