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tech1337

[Build Help] budget gaming pc ~$600

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This is for a friend coming from the console world who has a budget of around 600 dollars and wants to play games like Titanfall, Age of Empires/Mythology, Civ, DayZ. Would like to go with an intel/geforce combo. Wont be bothering with overclocking or anything, but he wanted a case with a window in it. He also has a keyboard, but needed a mouse. This is the closest to 600 I could come up with.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

TypeItemPrice
CPUIntel Core i3-4130 3.4GHz Dual-Core Processor$109.96 @ SuperBiiz
MotherboardMSI H81M-E34 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard$49.99 @ Amazon
MemoryCrucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory$77.95 @ Amazon
StorageSeagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive$49.99 @ Amazon
Video CardGigabyte GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB WINDFORCE Video Card$149.99 @ Amazon
CaseCooler Master Elite 431 Plus (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case$45.98 @ Amazon
Power SupplyEVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply$38.50 @ Amazon
Optical DriveAsus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer$22.89 @ Amazon
Operating SystemMicrosoft Windows 8 (OEM) (64-bit)$97.98 @ OutletPC
MouseCobra cobra II Wired Optical Mouse$11.49 @ Amazon
Total
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.$654.72
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-05-21 05:30 EDT-0400

Posted May 21, 2014, 9:31 AM UTC

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Ramy1999•

Have you thought about the r7 265? it would provide more performance for the same price.

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ASEThrower13•

500W is way more than you need for a dual-core Intel and a 750 Ti. 430W, or even 300W would be just fine. Corsair usually has rebates every month on their CX430 PSU for a final cost of around $20. Drop the memory to 4gb to save some money there, ditch the optical drive unless your friend's games are all on CD's, and maybe try to find Win8 cheaper elsewhere. And like Ramy said, consider an AMD card; better performance for the price with an r7 265 OR r9 270 @ $150, and you have plenty of wattage leftover since the i3 consumes only 54 watts.

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tech1337OP•

Thanks, I'll look around for a cheaper power supply and win 8. Forgot to mention the reason I was going with a geforce card was that I'm a shadowplay fan and he saw me recording games with it on my PC, so upon him seeing that he wants to be able to do the same thing. Also he is going to have this hooked up to his TV until he can save for a monitor and wants to be able to play DVD's with it so that's why I also thew in the optical drive. Thanks for the input!

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