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^^ He only wants to upgrade his CPU and mbd currently. The ram, hdd and monitor will be upgraded after 6 months.

Don't go with MSI. Their QC isn't very good and there seem to be a rather alarming amount of failures. Stick with top tier brands in India like ASUS or Gigabyte. Unfortunately while Gigabyte still makes some superb boards their service standards have fallen. So my suggestion is to stick with...

I thought like you till I actually used the phone. The build quality is really good and far better than the Chinese crap you get. Plus you get Sony service and reliability. Honestly the phone works far better than the specs suggest. Try it out first. I did and it totally changed my opinion of...

Since you were going to be fine with the Nokia Asha which means no games or apps I would suggest the Lumia 520. Its the best bang for the buck phone and the only real stumbling block is its lack of apps compared to Android or iOS.

Glad to see your issue was resolved. :)

I would choose a 80% Bronze plus Seasonic 520W over a 80% Bronze rater Corsair GS series 600W anyday. Honestly unless you are going to use Crossfire or SLI the 520W Seasonic will be sufficient for anything you throw at it. If you really want peace of mind then go for the 620W Seasonic for 1k...

^^ A Seasonic 520W S2 PSU is more than sufficient for a single GPU system.

Since you are gaming I would recommend an i5 Haswell CPU instead. Get a decent 5k motherboard and the total should come to 18k for the combo. Adding a Seasonic 520 SII, WD 1 TB Blue + Kingston 4GB DDR3 ram and your total should work out to around 34k with a decent 2k cabinet. A bit above your...

^^ You RMAed a drive brought from outside India ? Please share your experience so people can be better informed.

Ah. I assumed Prime replaced it because it was within LGs replacement policy. Kudos to Prime. :)

AFAIK Seagate India won't honor the warranty. - http://forums.seagate.com/t5/GoFlex-GoFlex-Desk-GoFlex-Pro/Global-warranty-refuse-in-INDIA/m-p/192730

Nice to know ! Good service by LG. Will definitely consider them in future. :)

Yeah why so much on the mbd ? You could have saved on the mbd and got a better processor instead. Anyways rest of the PC is very good.

^^ Ha ha. Shopkeepers can really brighten your day with their silly statements. :P The 260x is only slightly less hot and noisy than the 650 boost AFAIK but still the differences are not large anyways. How much did you pay and what brand did you pick ?

Oh ! Didn't know that. Thats a huge con for eVGA then. :P Any link to that ? AFAIK Tirupathi distributes eVGA cards.

^^ I honestly am not sure. I haven't heard too many people giving their cards for RMA in EVGA case which I suppose is a good thing. ASUS used to have RMA nightmares but their current RMA partner is pretty decent in my one experience. The eVGA 620 seems to be the best bet for you.

^^ Its not totally correct to call the dealers greedy. The GPU market in India is but a miniscule fraction of the US market so dealers here need to add their margins to PC components in order to remain competitive.

Sapphire and ASUS are considered good brands to get. EVGA is supposedly the best but their prices in India are crazy. Zotac is also supposedly a good buy. Zotac sells only Nvidia cards and Sapphire sells only AMD cards. ASUS sells both chipset based cards.

Yeah duties are pretty high. Plus order quantities are quite low in India while in the US retailers order in bulk. For 12.5k see if you can get a Geforce 650 Ti BOOST edition which should be better than the 260x. If you can increase your budget to 15k or so the 270x is a MUCH better card.

Since you are not gaming I don't see any real requirement for a high end card. Also Linux driver support from both AMD and Nvidia has improved a lot courtesy Valve's Steambox impeding launch. So go for a low end chip-set like Nvidia 610 or AMD 5450 which won't run the latest games but have DVI...