Yes, it will run fine but will lower graphics settings and frame rate.

No, you can get a cheap USB WiFi adapter to connect to WiFi, if your router is dual band capable (or if you are subscribed to a high speed Internet package like TIME Fiber) then please get a dual band capable WiFi adapter as well to benefit from it.

Yes you can, i7 will only show its advantage of the games you play do utilize the extra cores/threads (assuming similar clock speed), but for Dota 2, i5 will not have any issue handling it.

i5 6700 doesn't exist, I will just consider it as a typo

3k budget cannot fit GTX1070, GTX1060 3GB is still possible if you are planning to include a 120GB SSD, basically what you can get with 3k now (with the current RM situation) is just a rig with i5 + GTX1060 6GB (maybe 3GB only after price hike) + 8GB RAM and no SSD (monitor, peripherals all excluded), you will need to top up your budget to include other optional parts/hardware.

Intel Core i5 6500 - RM 906
ASRock H110M-ITX - RM 278
Corsair 16GB (8GB x 2) DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 476
MSI GTX1060 6GB GDDR5 OC - RM 1120 <this seems to be out of stock currently *>
Kingston SSDNow UV400 120GB SSD - RM 203
Seagate Barracuda 1TB HDD - RM 205
FSP Hexa+ 550W - RM 188
CM Elite 130 - RM 178

Total: RM 3554 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

Fully modular PSU is recommended for SFF/mITX setup to eliminate unused cables from piling up in the case (reduce airflow and dust collector), but this will increase the total cost needed, the current chosen PSU isn't a fully modular PSU FYI.

* Please look for other card/model if product is out of stock.

Just buy locally, HDMI to VGA or DVI to VGA adapter will do, DP to VGA is harder to find in Malaysia, cheaper than buying from overseas (+ the time needed to wait for its arrival).

Price hiked in the past few days due to poor RM currency performance lately

Intel Core i5 6500 - RM 903
MSI B150M Pro-VDH - RM 340
Corsair 16GB (8GB x 2) DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 476
Gigabyte GTX1060 6GB GDDR5 Xtreme Gaming - RM 1399
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB SSD - RM 315
Seagate Barracuda 1TB HDD - RM 205
Segotep K7 Tempered Glass - RM 359

Total: RM 3997 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

Well, your budget can fit a GTX1070 FYI if you do this (with less "premium" looking stuffs):
1. Corsair 8GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 238
2. Palit GTX1070 8GB GDDR5 Dual - RM 1859
3. Segotep Gank II - RM 179

A build with GTX1070 allows you to run games at higher graphics settings and frame rate due to the additional 40% (average) performance boost from GTX1070 (GTX1060 -> GTX1070), but you need to sacrifice the other parts like RAM and casing to fit it.

If your monitor resolution is 1080p only (I assume yes but you never mention it, same goes to PSU, I assume it is at least 500W), then GTX1060 will be able to serve you well.

Price hiked a lot recently due to weak RM currency performance, if you want to meet all your requirements then you will need to top up your budget.

Intel Core i3 6098P - RM 475
ASRock H110M-HDV - RM 245
Corsair 8GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 238
Zotac GTX750Ti 2GB GDDR5 - RM 489
Seagate Barracuda 1TB HDD - RM 205
Corsair VS450 - RM 162
Tecware F3 - RM 119
AOC E2180SWDN - RM 329

Total: RM 2262 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

What about monitor (and other peripherals), do you need them too?

If you are looking for small form factor (SFF) rig then you need to go for mITX, mATX is still too big to qualify as SFF, if space doesn't really matter too much to you then I suggest you to go for mATX for better airflow and upgrade path in the future.

Both builds could be exactly similar except the mobo choice and casing, so just let me know which form factor you want and I will proceed further (try to search for your desired casing first to help you to decide if you don't have any idea now).

Intel Core i5 6500 - RM 906
MSI B150M Pro-VDH - RM 340
Corsair 8GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 238
Zotac GTX1070 8GB GDDR5 Mini - RM 1999
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB SSD - RM 315
Seagate Barracuda 1TB HDD - RM 205
Superflower Leadex Gold 550W - RM 409
Tecware F3 - RM 119

Total: RM 4531 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

Zotac GTX1070 Mini doesn't have backplate and run at stock reference clock speed, you can consider other card like Gigabyte Windforce if you want to overcome all these "drawbacks" (except the 5 years warranty by Zotac).

Is this the Zotac Mini you are looking for?

https://www.zotac.com/us/product/graphics_c...gtx-1070-mini-0

If yes then this model doesn't have backplate, PCB is exposed directly.

As for monitor, plenty of choices to make, you prefer screen type or response time? If screen type then you will need to sacrifice a bit on the response time, for example, IPS with 4ms or TN with 1ms.

Intel Core i5 6500 - RM 906
MSI B150M Pro-VDH - RM 340
Corsair 8GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 238
Gigabyte GTX1070 8GB GDDR5 Windforce - RM 1949
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB SSD - RM 315
EVGA Supernova 650 GQ - RM 459
Tecware Alpha - RM 229

Total: RM 4436 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

Many possible builds with your budget, you can downgrade the GPU to GTX1060 6GB if you want to save money (same goes to PSU), you can also change the casing to your own preferred casing (just make sure the form factor is correct).

Price is changing almost everyday now due to the poor performance of our currency, high chance that you will need a new price list (or build list) in December

Intel Core i5 6500 - RM 906
MSI B150M Pro-VDH - RM 340
Corsair 8GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 238
<GPU reuse>
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB SSD - RM 315
Seagate Barracuda 1TB HDD - RM 205
Corsair VS450 - RM 162
Segotep Gank II - RM 179

Total: RM 2345 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

If you want to allocate part of your budget for the 144Hz monitor, you can remove the SSD and use the funds to get BenQ Zowie XL2411 (around RM 1150)/Acer XB240H (around RM 1000, not sure still got stock or not).

Checked the comments of the review, it seems like no backplate for most of the buyers, I am not entirely sure if our local unit comes with backplate or not, you might want to check with any of the local retailer for final confirmation, the image gallery of this model posted on the official website doesn't show any backplate though.

Acer R241Y/Dell S2316H - around RM 600+/-, entry level IPS monitor

Due to budget constraint, the only difference for both builds is just the casing (either mATX or ATX), this is because ATX mobo will cost you another RM 200 (more or less).

Intel Core i5 6402P - RM 767
ASRock B150M-HDV - RM 283
Corsair 8GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 238
Gigabyte GTX1060 6GB GDDR5 Windforce - RM 1269
<SSD reuse>
Seagate Barracuda 1TB HDD - RM 205
FSP Hexa+ 550W - RM 188
Segotep Gank II - RM 179

Total: RM 3129 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

Not sure if you need a new HDD or not, if don't need, please remove it and the total cost will be within your budget.

Stable 144 FPS is very hard to achieve with your current GPU (medium settings should be around 90+/-), dual monitors setup isn't a big issue since only 1 monitor will be used when gaming, meaning the GPU is still going to render the same amount of pixels of your current single monitor setup. Higher VRAM usage is unavoidable, the second screen will consume around 200 MB (more or less) from your total video memory pool.

Not guaranteed can run all graphics demanding games at medium settings with your allocated budget for each PC, this is due to the nature of PC titles being too inconsistent when speaking about the performance, some might be good but some might be as bad as a "pure" console port without doing any kind of post optimization work.

Intel Pentim G4400 - RM 240
ASRock H110M-HDV - RM 245
Corsair 8GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 238
Zotac GTX750Ti 2GB GDDR5 - RM 489
Seagate Barracuda 1TB HDD - RM 205
Corsair VS450 - RM 162
Armageddon T1x - RM 95
AOC E2180SWDN - RM 329
Logitech MK200 Wired Combo - RM 65

Total: RM 2068 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

Price is changing almost everyday now especially CPU and RAM price due to the poor performance of our local currency, if you don't plan to get them within this week (or this month), you might need to ask again in the future as the price and build might not be the same.

1. Both mobo are running a similar chipset (B150), so please expect the features offered by each of them will be almost the same apart from few extra I/O ports from the more expensive one. MSI B150M Pro-VDH comes with 4 RAM slots (vs 2 on ASRock), 1 SATAe port (not really that important and useful nowadays), USB 3.1 (vs 3.0 on ASRock, but 3.1 adoption rate is pretty low currently) and so on. NVMe M.2 SSD is not supported by both of them, if you plan to get a speedy next gen NVMe M.2 SSD then you might need to consider other mobo (this will increase the total cost needed but more future proof).

2. Yes you can do so but you need to top up for it.

3. Yes you can do so too but the RAM speed will be downclocked to 2133MHz automatically due to the nature of B150 chipset, only Z170 can support RAM speed > 2133MHz.

4. 550W is more than enough, power consumption of the new hardware is getting lower and lower now.

5. Tecware F3 is a mATX casing whereas Segotep Gank II is a ATX casing, if you don't plan to reuse the casing for future mobo upgrade (to ATX mobo) then F3 is fine.

If only rig is needed then you should be able to fit an i5 + GTX1060 3GB. Something like this will work:

Intel Core i5 6402P - RM 767
ASRock H110M-ITX - RM 278
Kingston 8GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 232
Zotac GTX1060 3GB GDDR5 Mini - RM 989
Seagate Barracuda 1TB HDD - RM 205
FSP Hexa+ 550W - RM 188
CM Elite 130 - RM 178

Total: RM 2837 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

If you don't mind adding some money on top of your available budget then you can consider upgrading the GTX1060 3GB to full specs 6GB model, same goes to SSD.

VA and IPS, both are having almost similar response time (4ms for Acer's IPS and 5ms for BenQ's VA), I doubt you will see any difference. RM 450 can mostly get entry level 1080p 60Hz monitor, TN panel will be the best option if you want lowest response time among all the panels type available.

Intel Core i3 6100 - RM 497
ASRock H110M-HDV - RM 245
Kingston 8GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 232
Zotac GTX1050Ti 4GB GDDR5 Mini - RM 729
Corsair VS450 - RM 162
Segotep Gank II - RM 179

Total: RM 2044 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

BF1 beta? That's already over and the full game was released last month

Intel Core i 5 6500 - RM 906
Gigabyte B150M-D3H (D4) - RM 379
Kingston 8GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 232
Palit GTX1060 6GB GDDR5 Dual - RM 1219
Seagate Barracuda 1TB HDD - RM 205
FSP Hexa+ 550W - RM 188
Tecware Alpha - RM 229
BenQ GW2470HM - RM 489
Logitech MK200 Wired Combo - RM 65

Total: RM 3912 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

SSD is not included, your friend can either top up his/her budget to get it or downgrade the monitor to a cheaper 21.5" panel to fit it.

Where did you see the ghosting issue on VA panel? So far I haven't heard back any ghosting issue from the users here on their purchase of VA monitor though.

Since no gaming is involved, onboard GPU is enough.

The CPU (i5 6500) price has increased, it is now RM 905 according to Idealtech pricelist