#47-#53
This is a bit off-topic, but I thought I'd clear up the FoV confusion
Vertical Field of View has to change with the horizontal Field of View, assuming a constant Aspect Ratio.
There are 4 options regarding TF2 fov, assuming fov_desired 90:
1. vFov is 75.00°, hFov is 91.31° at 4:3 and 107.52° at 16:9
2. vFov is 73.74°, hFov is 90.00° at 4:3 and 106.26° at 16:9
3. vFov is 75.00°, hFov is 90.00° at 4:3 and the source engine is a broken piece of shit.
4. vFov is something else entirely and the source engine may or may not be a broken piece of shit.

Take a guess!

The winner is *drumroll*

Back on topic:
60° vertical Field of View and an Aspect Ratio of 16:9 would give you a vertical Field of View of 91.49°. That means either someone just demonstrated impressive rounding skills or they can't afford more than three digits of precision.

CPU and GPU are the only thing that can't have compatibility issues as long as you get an LGA1150 motherboard.

Case size, RAM, number and speed of SATA ports that you need, RAM, number, size and speed of PCIe and possibly PCI slots that you need and if you want any special features would be more helpful.

And no, motherboards do not affect performance.

#2
Reviews.
No other way.
There's some really horrible "brands" that you can rule out (raidmax and coolmax come to mind) but other than that every manufacturer has good and not so good PSUs. Some manufacturers have pretty much only good PSUs but if two PSUs are the same price how do you know which one is better? Right, reviews.
This list should help.

#3
Enermax stopped building the low and mid range units, it's all CWT now except for the high end units.
PC Power & Cooling went to shit a decade ago and got bought by OCZ. They switched their OEM to (I'm gonna quote someone for this) "Sirfa, the brand well known for being the go-to guys for mediocre to mid-range power supplies."
Guess who built the PSUs that made P&C famous? Seasonic.

If I had to name my personal favourites it would be Delta, Seasonic and Super Flower (Leadex platform is insanely good).

BUT
RULE NUMBER ONE (1) FOR PSUs:
BRAND NAMES DON'T MATTER, ONLY REVIEWS MATTER
It happens all the time, a decent OEM slips up and builds a mediocre PSU, a midrange OEM puts out a sick platform and improves build quality aswell (praise Super Flower) etc., only a test will tell the truth, names don't mean shit.

EDIT:
To clarify: PC Power & Cooling has never been an OEM. They went through a phase of releasing garbage PSUs, got bought by OCZ and faded into mediocrity.
I don't think you'll be finding Enermax doing any OEM work nowadays, they even stopped manufacturing almost all of their own PSUs and are using an OEM (CWT) themselves now. While they're still using their own designs so the quality on that end hasn't changed, their build quality is down to the best CWT can offer (thanks to proper QC, unlike some of Corsair's CWT models) and that's simply not on the same level as Delta, Seasonic or even Enermax own production.
Seasonic is still one of the benchmarks for consumer PSUs, but they are not Delta.

Single threaded about 3% faster.
Multi-threaded best case 30-40%.
1/3 bigger L3 cache is a bonus.

It's basically an i7-4770 without the iGPU. So it's within 5% of the i7-4790 and that thing is at 415$.

So if you have a discrete GPU and can take advantage of the multi-threaded performance (TF2, streaming, rendering, all that kind of stuff) it actually has a better price to performance ratio than the i5-4590. In fact even in single threaded only the 4790K beats it by more than 5% (and the 4790K is hella expensive). I can only think of some i3s that would beat it in price to performance, and they don't even have half the performance.
I am Commander Shepard and this is my favourite CPU on the Citadel.
What I'm saying is even though Intel isn't giving me any rebates, I'd still consider myself a little biased.

I didn't choose Core 1000 (or 1100 for that matter) because the internal layout is a bit lacking, but if you like the design better and the "front" ports on the side suit your setup better then go for it. After all you'll probably only build this pc once and use the ports and power button every day.

I have one lying around so I measured it, if you put the SSD in the bottom slot with the connectors facing right the GPU will fit.

Here's what I'd get:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($339.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Motherboard: ASRock B85M Pro4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($99.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($99.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Storage: Crucial MX100 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($95.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($75.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 270X 2GB Double Dissipation Video Card ($229.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Case: Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mid Tower Case ($55.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 430W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($85.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WN881ND 802.11b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter ($19.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Monitor: BenQ RL2455HM 60Hz 24.0" Monitor ($219.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Total: $1314.00
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-03-03 08:25 EST+1100

Haven't looked at the WLAN Adapter or the monitor.

pricey != good
Corsair = pricey
Some time ago the hopped aboard the "let's cash in on our reputation and overprice everything"-train.
That Corsair SSD doesn't perform well. The only reason to recommend it when it came would've been if it were cheaper than other budget SSDs. It wasn't. SSD prices dropped. Corsair's prices didn't, if anything they increased. Now that SSD is priced higher than performance SSDs that run circles around it. The thing is it performs poorly because they used a cheap controller, yet somehow they priced it higher than the competition that uses more expensive controllers. They've been doing the same with PSUs. If you're trying to sell cheaper components at a higher price you either hired a wizard for your engineering department or you're going to get shit on.

I can recommend neither the Corsair 200R nor the Bitfenix Shadow. There's nothing major wrong with the 200R, I can overlook the little things like the lack of PSU decoupling or dust filters in a budget case. But that's the point. Budget case. For 30$ it's a great deal, for 50$ it's still ok-ish, depending on the competition, but for 85$? Nope, not happening. Same for the Bitfenix Shadow. That would've been a 50$ case a couple of years ago. Even if for you LEDs > up-to-date interior design I still wouldn't pay more than 50$ for this thing nowadays. 80$? No chance.

120GB 840 Evo for 320$R on merdacolivre, that takes care of the SSD problem.
Price seems to differ heavily by payment method so I'm not sure how it'll all work out exactly.
I focused on finding a decent mobo and case first.
Asus B85M-E
Cougar MG100
CPU depends a bit on the price. From what I've seen the Xeon E3-1230 v3 (or 1231) isn't available anywhere atm, but you can check again, I might have missed it.
That basically narrows it down to the i5-4590 and 4690. Get the 4690 if it still fits in the budget and is less than 7% more expensive.
There should be enough money left to get a 270X or 760, I'll look into the specific models again.
You could throw in another 4GB of RAM if you can afford it.

I think you misunderstood, the idea is to replace the mobo for 50$ and then sell the whole thing for ~150$ so you can replace the PSU aswell.
That stands and falls with finding a cheap mobo.

It's not a problem though, the PSU isn't great but acceptable and then RAM should be fine aswell (check timings and voltage to be sure).

What would be your budget in R$?

I can't find any good SSDs on those, so a few more shops would be good.

#421
I forgot to ask about windows, I'll just assume you don't need it.

Focus on TF2/CS:GO and streaming, not so much on pretty graphics, added a 120GB SSD.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($242.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock H97M Anniversary Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($68.98 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Team Xtreem Dark Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($54.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Crucial MX100 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($64.95 @ SuperBiiz)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($47.89 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Asus Radeon R9 270 2GB DirectCU II Video Card ($145.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Fractal Design Core 1100 MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($28.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($34.99 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer ($14.98 @ OutletPC)
Total: $704.75
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-03-02 10:22 EST-0500

There's a really good deal for an R9 285 going on so if your budget isn't too strict or if you're willing to drop either HDD, SSD or ODD, since you can just get them later, you should take advantage of that.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($242.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock H97M Anniversary Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($68.98 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Team Xtreem Dark Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($54.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Crucial MX100 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($64.95 @ SuperBiiz)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($47.89 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: PowerColor Radeon R9 285 2GB TurboDuo Video Card ($161.98 @ Newegg)
Case: Fractal Design Core 1100 MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($28.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($34.99 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer ($14.98 @ OutletPC)
Total: $720.74
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-03-02 10:26 EST-0500

#422
I'm not sure about the exact prices in Brazil but it should be possible.
Exact PSU model?
Are you sure the mobo died? It might be the PSU
Stock cooler would be included anyway, new HDD or not isn't going to change much, 4GB RAM is <30$.
If it's the PSU that died then replacing it and selling the pc as a whole might be a better idea. If it's the mobo it depends on wether or not you can find a cheap one.

Could you link me the shop(s) where you would be buying the parts? I don't mind if it's in Portugese and it'll be much easier to meet the budget that way instead of using pcpartpicker with US prices and then trying to predict what it'll cost in Brazil.

TF2 only or other games aswell? If yes, which and what settings/fps do you want to get at least. Streaming yes or no?

Depending on that there might even be enough left to put a 120GB SSD in it.

#413
I suggest you skim through the benchmark thread (pages 2, 4 and 5 should be of the most interest for you), do the benchmark yourself and compare.

#415
That's fine, it just means that he'll get the pc, at your cost ofc.[/s]

I'm only looking at CS:GO although there aren't too many recent benchmarks. For the GPU something around a GTX 760 would be enough, but not every game is on the source engine (thank god) so I'd take it up a notch and go into the 200$ category (280/960/280X). The budget would even allow for a 970 for the really pretty games.

CPU isn't that easy. A Xeon E3-1231 v3 should get 200+ fps, but with the "baseline" build it wouldn't even touch 750$. Sure the build easily meets your requirements and from a price to performance ratio going for requirements+wiggle room makes the most sense but on the other hand I could also go well into the "fun zone" (also known as overkill).

First things first, here's the baseline build.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($242.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Enermax ETS-T40-TB 86.7 CFM CPU Cooler ($34.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock H97M Anniversary Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($68.98 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Team Xtreem Dark Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($54.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($47.89 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: PowerColor Radeon R9 285 2GB TurboDuo Video Card ($161.98 @ Newegg)
Case: Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mid Tower Case ($39.98 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($34.99 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer ($14.98 @ OutletPC)
Total: $701.77
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-03-02 17:31 EST-0500
Omitt the ODD if you don't need it.
GTX 960 if you insist.

Now there's various possible upgrades. Even if you don't want to overclock the i7-4790K is an option. The higher stock clocks alone would get you 15-20% better performance in anything CPU limited (so pretty much only streaming/rendering and TF2/CS:GO, other games won't be limited by the Xeon by a long shot). A bit over 30% more expensive though, you're paying for the iGPU. Still <800$, but why not go all the way. Z97 mobo for overclocking and while we're at it, make it SLI compatible. Now that we can use RAM with >1.5V let's get some 2133MHz CL10 RAM for the same price as the 1600MHz CL9 RAM. GTX 970 for good measure. You now have the option to get 120/144fps in games on settings on which most would be happy to get 60fps if you add another GTX 970 someday. To fully utilize the budget let's throw in a Noctua NH-D14 (alternative: bigger case and Phanteks PH-TC14PE) and a better PSU (two deals ran out while I was putting this together so atm it's 650W fully modular 80+ Gold PSU but that might change).

Everything between the baseline build and this one is possible.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor ($318.98 @ OutletPC)
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D14 65.0 CFM CPU Cooler ($74.69 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock Fatal1ty Z97M Killer Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($114.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ares Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2133 Memory ($54.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($47.89 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card ($329.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mid Tower Case ($39.98 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($54.99 @ NCIX US)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer ($14.98 @ OutletPC)
Total: $1051.48
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-03-02 05:50 EST-0500

#416
Cooler, RAM, GPU, PSU, ODD, possibly Case and Sound Card. If it's for TF2 CPU and mobo aswell.
Can't tell you to what you should change them though. I don't know what you want to do with it and you didn't specify a budget.

Specific parameters -> specific advice
One liners along the line(s) of "is something wrong with this" -> The answer will be "Yes" and nothing more.

#417
Come on we've been through this. You need to tell me your budget, I can't read your mind.
V300 is bad btw.
PC Case Gear only?
Also that shopping cart is cookie based if I'm not mistaken, no one will be able to see it.

Sorry it took so long. The Telekom, my ISP, is trying to switch to IPv6. The first and only test so far led to all 400000 connections that were involved being down for a while. I was spared but now they're pushing a mandatory firmware update that might prevent their system from going down next time. Turns out a lot of their modems/routers have never been compatible with the auto update system and haven't been updated in quite a while. Bonus points, since the server update went smoothly those modems now can't establish a connection, because after that update they won't accept the old legacy connections anymore. The technicians are now busy forcing the firmware update manually. We had a nice chat while the firmware update was installing, which took quite a while and since there was nothing better to do he also looked into some weird PPPoE issues that kept popping up after the every reconnect. While they are pretty much standard they shouldn't have persisted after the line reset and the firmware update. Turns out a port on their side has had a hardware failure for quite some time, it's getting replaced tomorrow. He also told me that unless a miracle happens if they use the current system (which is utter garbage, the first and so far only test confirmed all of their suspicions) every connection is going to go down when they switch to IPv6 in 2016. Let's hope the higher ups realise that a test that leads to 100% of the involved connections being down is not successful.

Overall I had a fun morning.

EDIT: Another deal update.

You could keep using the 500GB HDD and get a new one too, unless you want to sell your old pc as a whole (minus SSD), in that case make sure you wipe and overwrite everything properly.

"games on not low settings/resolution to get acceptable fps" isn't that specific either. Which games are we talking about? "not low" is even less specific than "pretty high", it could be anything from medium to max/ultra. What is a not low resolution for you? 1280*720? 1920*1080? 2560*1400? 4K? 5K? Same for acceptable fps. I'm guessing it's not 30, but is it 60, >60, 120, 144 or even 240?

I'm just trying not to go overboard.

Just a few questions for both of you.

#409
I'm guessing you're not reusing any parts.
Any reason for those preferences?
1150$ is a bit overkill if you're "not going to be playing any crazy graphics intensive games". Then again I don't know what you would consider "pretty high settings" or what your current setup is, so I can't recommend anything if without knowing if it would meet your expectations or if it would be an improvement at all.
Sure I could just post a cookie cutter build but you can find those anywhere, to optimize it for your needs I need a more specific goal.

#410
Is that an existing build?
You probably won't be too happy about my opinion on it.
CPU: 4770K, why? You don't even have an aftermarket cooler.
Mobo: Z87, why? I'm doubting you're running any noticable overclock and you're not using SLI either.
RAM: 16GB, why? Also Corsair RAM is horribly overpriced. Bonus: highest RMA rates by quite a margin.
SSD: fine
HDD: Seems overkill if you have an SSD. Anything with a lot of random reads should be on the SSD and for sequential reads I'm not sure if it even beats the much cheaper Seagate Barracuda.
GPU: fine, depends a bit on the games though. If we're talking normal to GPU intensive games (anything not TF2) either the 4770K is massive overkill or the 970 is massively underpowered. With 2 970s everything would make sense.
Case: It's a good case, not my thing, but I would spend that much on a case anyway.
PSU: Incredibly overpriced and shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit. QC is shiiiiiiiiiiit, build quality is shiiiiiiiiiit, performance would be ok for a PSU half the price. Also to keep it quiet instead of using a better fan the fan profile is set so it doesn't turn on until 50% load which means it'll overheat and shut down a lot. They recalled it and made a revision that had the same problem. I'm not sure if the second revision fixed that point, even if it did, if a PSU needs two revisions before it even works I'd stay away from it. Also way too high wattage, unless you're using SLI (see GPU).

Stop with the useless double posts. You can edit your posts in case you didn't know.

At this point you're just spamming, you didn't even make a point.

Can we please ban him for a week?

There's no way you could've known that we're using that thread for all hardware advice, after all the title is "pc build thread" and this isn't a build.

It's nice that someone posted it because it helps to reduce the number of threads, but once you had posted it in your own thread there was no need to copy your post into the build thread, I monitor the whole forum.

Let's get to the actual advice:
"apparently gtx 780 is really good with my current cpu" this is bullshit. It depends on the game and your graphic settings.
You can think of this as a flowchart:
Are you satisfied with your current fps and settings in the games you are playing?
Yes -> don't upgrade.
No -> So you want higher fps or higher quality settings. Are you limited by your CPU or GPU?
CPU -> find a CPU that will allow you to play with the fps and settings you want and upgrade.
GPU -> find a GPU that will allow you to play with the fps and settings you want and upgrade.

So first you need to tell in which games you want better performance, ideally specified as "x fps at y settings" (your current fps and settings would be nice aswell) then I can help you. Upgrading for the sake of upgrading is a waste of money.

"my motherboard is basically made for amd" this is bullshit. Any GPU will work with any mobo. At this point PCIe slots are like USB. You're guaranteed to have them, only their number and speed can differ. You wouldn't choose a USB-stick based on which motherboard it works well either with since there is no difference. Sorry if I sound angry, I know most people don't have any way to tell fact from fiction when it comes to stuff like this, but those myths make me mad. I want to punch whoever came up with that bullshit in the face. Same goes for the Intel CPU + nVidia GPU/AMD CPU + AMD GPU myth.

EDIT: Advised #402 already via steam message, I didn't forget/overlook him in case someone was wondering.

Australia?
500-1000$ is a pretty wide range.
Only CS:GO and TF2 should make things easier.
Either include the monitor in the budget or don't. There is no maybe. That's how budgets work.
60Hz or 120/144Hz or 120/144Hz+Lightboost?