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1. Speak to your Mum.
2. Contact the supplier
3 Come back and tell us what they both said.

Telling your Mother what you are doing is the important bit......she may have a few questions to ask here too.
Best advice, capslock is a great guy to listen to this amazing gentlman helped me out.

Though he told his mum he checked per purchasing, that it was fine hate to know what the mum would say.
 
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From what I've seen in the comment im going to be truful ... you are fudged ..you've gone over 1 month so bye to that idea. Next buy a amd 290x or something cheap like 480.

You'll also need a 800w psu that's not going to be cheap with the gpu.

Unless you got your own money to spend I don't think your mum will be happy to know you wasted her money on something you say you can't use to play games very well. This is a hard convo and theirs not much we can do to help you. You haven't told us if your mum will be happy to spend more money or not.

I doubt anyone here will give you a free gpu and free upgrades. I could be wrong.

3 things I see needing an upgrade. Psu, gpu, cpu.

You can't do anything with a 200$ budget you need a better Psu for a better gpu and a better cpu for recording while gaming..1000$ at least is needed. You may even need a better motherboard.. sorry but you may need a whole new computer

My best advice buy an xbox one or ps3 or ps4 with such a budget, unless you want to take a while upgrading everything yourself

800w and 290x.....

Your words not mine, regardless of him wanting to stream or not he's 14 and can only afford $200 so you telling him to go replace CPU motherboard, PSU and buy a high end GPU is misinformation, he's likely aware he will have to run medium settings in some games but if this is all you rig can muster then people are happy with that, not everyone has to run ultra settings with tons of aa at a constant 60fps to have enjoyable gameplay!
 
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800w and 290x.....

Your words not mine, regardless of him wanting to stream or not he's 14 and can only afford $200 so you telling him to go replace CPU motherboard, PSU and buy a high end GPU is misinformation, he's likely aware he will have to run medium settings in some games but if this is all you rig can muster then people are happy with that, not everyone has to run ultra settings with tons of aa at a constant 60fps to have enjoyable gameplay!
My wording isn't the best nor I my English.

I also said he'd have to possibly replace the motherboard if he wanted a better range of cpu .

Did you check my further comments or just 1. I even went on to state the best stuff in his range 400w psu 1050ti and maybe an a10 cpu or what ever better or can be affordable.

Also I'm trying as stated to come up with best solution for recording and playing. Recording will demolish performance if playing multi.
Edit: so I did put 800w I meant 600 lol I'm acruelly going over comments now trying to correct parts of my English or phones autocorrect.

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On a side note -- I hope you made good use of mothersday to butter her up before dropping the bad news :p
 
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On a side note -- I hope you made good use of mothersday to butter her up before dropping the bad news :p
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Basically what I said all this time buy the a10 or a great cpu for the fm2 then 1050ti/amd equivalent if better and cheaper.

Everyone learns from there mistakes.
Everyone learns something new everyday.

He wants to record and play would need a better cpu then he already had and gpu. And if it gets overclocked that's more watsz my assumption is it be almost as good and to the guy above I never said buy a better gpu I said if really want the sweetspot. Once again I guess it's how I written it.
But if he goes amd gpu again if somethings better than a 1050ti he may need a better pau especially as amd gpus use more power

He already decided on the 860k and 1050ti. That will be fine for him without changing PSU and should be a night and day difference at 1080p. He may not get 60fps in every game at max settings, but he didnt mention if that is actually a requirement.
 

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He already decided on the 860k and 1050ti. That will be fine for him without changing PSU and should be a night and day difference at 1080p. He may not get 60fps in every game at max settings, but he didnt mention if that is actually a requirement.
I would be happy with running 1080p lowest settings and 30+ fps
 
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SanityGaming this is the second thread where you recommend a r290x (old'hot) over the new options on gpus we have already on the market and misinform people giving some weird advises with no base, ( ssd not for gaming)
Plz start reading a little more on based reviews and dont drop more misinformation to people that are trying to get the best for their money.
Atm dont know if youre trolling or just complete miss informed

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great choice
 
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SanityGaming this is the second thread where you recommend a r290x (old'hot) over the new options on gpus we have already on the market and misinform people giving some weird advises with no base, ( ssd not for gaming)
Plz start reading a little more on based reviews and dont drop more misinformation to people that are trying to get the best for their money.
Atm dont know if youre trolling or just complete miss informed

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great choice
Went with the
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod...OT5RbDuGnnGVkVMo1477dxoCIjDw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

and the

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod...0cykccUmvLUlJjcMRZ5ocRoCWZfw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

made sure it fit with my motherboard so is it a good choice?
 

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i found this for you, maybe can help you anyway at the end is your decision, that way youll be happy with your final buy.

..and for what im reading on the reviews on newegg( even though is not a reliable feedback 100%) everyone gives 5 eggs to that card
 
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