EMPthePanda

The i5 4430 can be price matched for $99, but it would stretch your budget.  Maybe you could give her your 760k and take the i5??
 
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks   CPU:  Intel Core i5-4430 3.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($99.99)  Motherboard:  Gigabyte GA-B85M-DS3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($55.04 @ Newegg)  Memory:  G.Skill Ares Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($68.99 @ Newegg)  Storage:  PNY XLR8 PRO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk  ($59.99 @ Newegg)  Storage:  Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($56.98 @ OutletPC)  Video Card:  MSI Radeon R7 260X 2GB Video Card  ($119.99 @ Micro Center)  Case:  Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mid Tower Case  ($43.99 @ NCIX US)  Power Supply:  Corsair Builder 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($24.99 @ Newegg)  Total: $529.96 (Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.) (Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-05-04 00:22 EDT-0400)     Also, you could remove the ssd or hhd and get a 265 gpu instead of the 260x.   EDIT : forgot the link for the i5   http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/147784-i5-4430-on-sale/#entry1974222

Gonna skip it. Need a new extreme processor to come out instead. With an awesome memory controller.

Well for one if you are not video editing the I7 is just there for the penis extension, in games the I5 and I7 perform the exact same.

The opal looks so much better. IMO. Use it.

Yea but nowadays being on the LGA 775 platform + having a Radeon 5000 series graphics card is what i'd consider pretty similar

It doesn't have a single component that is exactly the same hahaha i mean the processors are both intel core duos, believe me your computer is MUCH better haha

I think I can beat that... 
 
ANTEC VSK-3000   $24.99
ROSEWELL RD-400 PSU   $31.99
TEAM ELITE 8GB RAM DDR3 1333 $56.99
G2120 $69.99
ASROCK-B75M-DGS R2.0 1155 $54.99
 
 
238.95 USD
 
All of the software was free from Oracle (RHEL 6.4; Apps 12.1.3; RDBMS 11.2.0.3)
 
Also, the price on some of those items have increased since my purchase of them in August 2013.  The CPU is about $20 more now and so is the RAM.  Not sure why that is.
 

 
But I cheated by reusing a 2TB Toshiba HDD I had lying around, that would've bumped it up another $100.  Also, it is a headless server so integrated graphicss and no monitor helped keep cost low.
 
I've since added another HDD, a Noctua fan, and an extra NIC.
 
*edit:  gaming on this would be a laugh though.  Although I've heard that the G2120 has been used without dedicated graphics as a gaming solution... and it supposedly was not horrible.  YMWV

I feel like some of you guys are thinking that i'm actually building this, haha I literally just went on pcpartpicker and found the lowest price components for everything

I feel like some of you guys are thinking that i'm actually building this, haha I literally just went on pcpartpicker and found the lowest price components for everything

I had a friend who thought a 7570 was better than a 6990 because it was a bigger number

Alienware make good computers, your friend Has gotten dEcent pc, such friendLy People too. They gave ME a nice chip to put in my brain.
ALL HAIL ALIENWARE!

Hey guys I would like to say I'm a huge fan of this community and how positive it is, you see first time builders on here all the time and i'm sure they feel welcomed. Hit people up with a like every once and a while and be sure to tell people how awesome there builds are! While your here hit me up with your favorite brand!

I had a friend who thought a 7570 was better than a 6990 because it was a bigger number

I had a friend who thought a 7570 was better than a 6990 because it was a bigger number

Hey guys I would like to say I'm a huge fan of this community and how positive it is, you see first time builders on here all the time and i'm sure they feel welcomed. Hit people up with a like every once and a while and be sure to tell people how awesome there builds are! While your here hit me up with your favorite brand!

Hey guys I would like to say I'm a huge fan of this community and how positive it is, you see first time builders on here all the time and i'm sure they feel welcomed. Hit people up with a like every once and a while and be sure to tell people how awesome there builds are! While your here hit me up with your favorite brand!

Favorite brand is Sony

Above this post it says something about the most depressing day of the year...so positive
 
but my favorite brand has to be either corsair or fractal

Hey guys I would like to say I'm a huge fan of this community and how positive it is, you see first time builders on here all the time and i'm sure they feel welcomed. Hit people up with a like every once and a while and be sure to tell people how awesome there builds are! While your here hit me up with your favorite brand!

No pics or it didn't happen

Oh, my bad i havent seen one recently so I just decided to go for it, on the plus side the guy below you has your case in his dream machine 

there was two yesterday

Who even has friends nowadays?
 
*cries in corner*

He probably used http://www.downloadmoreram.com/ to get 500GB of RAM

Well almost the same as the pc i have atm:
 
750D (painted in matt black) 
Rampage IV Extreme Black Edition
4960x
64 gb of ddr3 2133 cl 9 g.skill ripjaws.
1000 Watt Corsair RM Series 
8x 1tb 840 evo (This is the only difference in my build i only have 2)
2x 4tb WD Red
2x 780ti's Evga classified 
Watercooling Setup (Too lazy to write everything down)