Starting Gaming Rig For a Friend

[AzureKite]

HI everyone, I'm helping a friend built his first gaming PC and we were wondering if we could get any suggestions on this build? Some info first, the only thing he has now is a monitor, Budget is a max of $600, must be from Newegg as that is our preferred shop, and we are located in the US. He's not looking to be playing games at Ultra settings at 4k or even 1080p, more like above 720p as we have weird OEM moniters we'll upgrade at tax season.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 860K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($79.98 @ Newegg) 

Motherboard: ASRock FM2A68M-DG3+ Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard  ($54.49 @ Newegg) 

Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($49.99 @ Newegg) 

Storage: Mushkin ECO2 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($54.99 @ Newegg) 

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($51.99 @ Newegg) 

Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 270X 2GB HAWK Video Card  ($139.99 @ Newegg) 

Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($55.98 @ Newegg) 

Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WN725N 802.11b/g/n USB 2.0 Wi-Fi Adapter  ($10.98 @ Newegg) 

Keyboard: Cooler Master CM Storm Devastator Gaming Bundle Wired Gaming Keyboard w/Optical Mouse  ($31.98 @ Newegg) 

Other: DIYPC DIY-N8-W White ($44.99)

Total: $575.36

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-10 02:01 EDT-0400

[Comessy]

Why not pentium g3258?

[AzureKite]

Why not pentium g3258?

Far Cry 4.

[dragoon20005]

it a good start

 

but does he want to OC?

 

if not like Luke/Slick says get the CoolerMaster 212 Evo/Plus cooler

[AzureKite]

it a good start

 

but does he want to OC?

 

if not like Luke/Slick says get the CoolerMaster 212 Evo/Plus cooler

Nah he doesn't plan on any type of OC. If it comes to it, I have a spare CoolerMaster Hyper T4.

[bip_]

Looks pretty good. Unless he really wants the SSD I would but more money into the CPU or GPU. 

[AzureKite]

Looks pretty good. Unless he really wants the SSD I would but more money into the CPU or GPU. 

Yeah he has his heart set on an SSD since he saw the boot time of my computer. 

[SkywardKkalox]

 

HI everyone, I'm helping a friend built his first gaming PC and we were wondering if we could get any suggestions on this build? Some info first, the only thing he has now is a monitor, Budget is a max of $600, must be from Newegg as that is our preferred shop, and we are located in the US. He's not looking to be playing games at Ultra settings at 4k or even 1080p, more like above 720p as we have weird OEM moniters we'll upgrade at tax season.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 860K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($79.98 @ Newegg) 

Motherboard: ASRock FM2A68M-DG3+ Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard  ($54.49 @ Newegg) 

Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($49.99 @ Newegg) 

Storage: Mushkin ECO2 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($54.99 @ Newegg) 

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($51.99 @ Newegg) 

Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 270X 2GB HAWK Video Card  ($139.99 @ Newegg) 

Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($55.98 @ Newegg) 

Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WN725N 802.11b/g/n USB 2.0 Wi-Fi Adapter  ($10.98 @ Newegg) 

Keyboard: Cooler Master CM Storm Devastator Gaming Bundle Wired Gaming Keyboard w/Optical Mouse  ($31.98 @ Newegg) 

Other: DIYPC DIY-N8-W White ($44.99)

Total: $575.36

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-10 02:01 EDT-0400

 

If he wants the SSD right now, skip the HDD and dump the money to the GPU for an r9 280 as it is better than the 270x, he can always add an HDD later, but he will have to deal with the smaller storage.