$450 Budget Gaming PC (Already have GPU)

[Khajiit Dealer]

I'm helping my friend build a PC. I'm giving him my ASUS 660 Ti DirectCUII SLI and his remaining budget is $450. The build needs a 600W PSU. He wants to run SW Battlefront at 1080p high settings. Thanks!

[RyanMacRocks]

One sec, I'll make a PC part picker.

[theereal]

660Ti and Battlefront maxed?

[RyanMacRocks]

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/wLmThM

 

Here you go, I don't see why you need a 600 Watt PSU, so save yourself some money and go with a 500 Watt. Some might suggest you go with a Skylake processor instead of Haswell, but imo skylake motherboards are still too expensive for too little increase in performance when comparing i5 4590 to 6500.

[Khajiit Dealer]

660Ti and Battlefront maxed?

Not max, high.

And dual 660 Ti in SLI

[theereal]

Not max, high.

And dual 660 Ti in SLI

Ahh, but why 600W?

[stconquest]

Ahh, but why 600W?

 

[Railgun]

I don't think you really need to worry about being able to run  SWBF. From what I saw in Linus's recent video, it doesn't take much to run the game in ultra settings 1080pee

[theereal]

 

This Is system load.

[stconquest]

Got an old HDD for him?  Also two 120mm fans for front intake.

 

$406

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($174.89 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock Z97 Extreme3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($76.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport XT 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($34.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Thermaltake Versa H22 ATX Mid Tower Case  ($34.98 @ Directron)
Power Supply: Thermaltake SMART 750W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($67.78 @ Amazon)
Total: $389.62
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-21 20:26 EDT-0400

[stconquest]

This Is system load.

 

Yes it is.

[theereal]

Yes it is.

Doesent say which specs the system uses, just what the load Is and what GPU Is there...

[stconquest]

Doesent say which specs the system uses, just what the load Is and what GPU Is there...

 

Sorry, I forgot to post the source.  Generally a system will run around 100w-125w for game testing.  So let's say 175 per 660Ti.  That's 350w + 125w = 475w.  Would you use a 500w PSU?  Not to mention the budget is low so higher quality units are out of reach.  Capacitor degradation is real.

 

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6276/nvidia-geforce-gtx-660-review-gk106-rounds-out-the-kepler-family/3

[King_Tuna]

Got an old HDD for him? Also two 120mm fans for front intake.

He has 450$ so he can buy 1TB HDD for 30-40$ if he does not have one.