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I have been planning out a build for a friend for awhile now since he wants to make the move into PC gaming and with the $500 price point of the next gen consoles I decided to see what I could come up with. Here are the parts I've come up with

 

Case: Fractal Define R4

Motherboard: Asus B85m

CPU: Pentium G3430

GPU: AMD 7770 or r7 260x

RAM: 4GB

PSU: CX 600M

HDD: WD500GB
 

Now I know having 4GB ram and a pentium nowadays is a mortal sin but even this it is a bit pricier than I would like. I would like to know if there are any areas I can cut down or get a much better value. I am not very well versed on AMD CPUs and I know they usually offer better budget gaming performance. So imaging thats where I should be looking now.

 

I want this to be a pretty entry level computer and cost is a lot more important than eye candy here. My friend wants to play BF3/4 and CS. I will be giving him my mouse and he has an OS so dont worry about anything other than the parts.

"If you do not take your failures seriously you will continue to fail"

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I have been planning out a build for a friend for awhile now since he wants to make the move into PC gaming and with the $500 price point of the next gen consoles I decided to see what I could come up with. Here are the parts I've come up with

Case: Fractal Define R4

Motherboard: Asus B85m

CPU: Pentium G3430

GPU: AMD 7770 or r7 260x

RAM: 4GB

PSU: CX 600M

HDD: WD500GB

Now I know having 4GB ram and a pentium nowadays is a mortal sin but even this it is a bit pricier than I would like. I would like to know if there are any areas I can cut down or get a much better value. I am not very well versed on team red CPUs and I know they usually offer better budget gaming performance.

I want this to be a pretty entry level computer and cost is a lot more important than eye candy here. My friend wants to play BF3/4 and CS. I will be giving him my mouse and he has an OS so dont worry about anything other than the parts.

Go Amd CPU but better bang for the buck my build cost 480 not including windows
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Go Amd CPU but better bang for the buck my build cost 480 not including windows

I know that! I am asking what AMD CPU to get. The ones I've looked at are worse than the pentium at single threaded tasks and perform marginally better in games.

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I know that! I am asking what AMD CPU to get. The ones I've looked at are worse than the pentium at single threaded tasks and perform marginally better in games.

Amd fx 6300, most game are going to be using 4 cores soon it's nice to have headroom I can run pretty much any game no issues except plant side 2 is a bit bottle necked till they optimize for fx chips

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 760K 3.8GHz Quad-Core Processor ($77.00 @ Amazon)

Motherboard: MSI FM2-A55M-E33 Micro ATX FM2 Motherboard ($34.99 @ Newegg)

Memory: Patriot Viper 3 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($55.99 @ Newegg)

Storage: Toshiba 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($84.98 @ OutletPC)

Video Card: PowerColor Radeon HD 7870 XT 2GB Video Card ($163.98 @ Newegg)

Case: Rosewill FBM-01 MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($23.02 @ Amazon)

Power Supply: Corsair Builder 430W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V Power Supply ($19.99 @ Microcenter)

Total: $459.95

(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)

(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-10-31 08:38 EDT-0400)

Epic pc for epically low price :D

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 760K 3.8GHz Quad-Core Processor ($77.00 @ Amazon)

Motherboard: MSI FM2-A55M-E33 Micro ATX FM2 Motherboard ($34.99 @ Newegg)

Memory: Patriot Viper 3 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($55.99 @ Newegg)

Storage: Toshiba 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($84.98 @ OutletPC)

Video Card: PowerColor Radeon HD 7870 XT 2GB Video Card ($163.98 @ Newegg)

Case: Rosewill FBM-01 MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($23.02 @ Amazon)

Power Supply: Corsair Builder 430W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V Power Supply ($19.99 @ Microcenter)

Total: $459.95

(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)

(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-10-31 08:38 EDT-0400)

Epic pc for epically low price :D

 

Wow thats pretty great. I think I'll take that and tweak it a little bit for now. 

Id still like to hear what other people have to say though.

"If you do not take your failures seriously you will continue to fail"

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[PCPartPicker part list](http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1VuMi) / [Price breakdown by merchant](http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1VuMi/by_merchant/) / [benchmarks](http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1VuMi/benchmarks/)

Type|Item|Price

:----|:----|:----

**CPU** | [AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/amd-cpu-fd6300wmhkbox) | $109.99 @ Newegg

**Motherboard** | [biostar TA970 ATX AM3+ Motherboard](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/biostar-motherboard-ta970) | $55.25 @ Newegg

**Memory** | [Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/corsair-memory-cml8gx3m2a1600c9) | $74.99 @ Amazon

**Storage** | [Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/western-digital-internal-hard-drive-wd10ealx) | $76.98 @ SuperBiiz

**Video Card** | [sapphire Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition 1GB Video Card](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/sapphire-video-card-100358l) | $85.38 @ Newegg

**Case** | [NZXT Gamma Classic (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/nzxt-case-gama001bk) | $29.99 @ Amazon

**Power Supply** | [LEPA N 500W ATX12V Power Supply](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/lepa-power-supply-n500sa) | $39.24 @ Amazon

| | **Total**

| Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available. | $471.82

| Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-10-31 08:45 EDT-0400 |

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Wow thats pretty great. I think I'll take that and tweak it a little bit for now. 

Id still like to hear what other people have to say though.

I was just building a system on pcpartpicker and came up with pretty much the exact same thing. I would go with that.

My rig: i5 2500k, MSI Z77A G45, Gainward GTX 980 Phantom, 8GB Corsair Vengeance, OCZ ZT series 750W PSU, 1TB HDD, 800D, fully water cooled. I am currently working on modding my HAF 912+ to fit a custom loop, here is the build log: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/165963-project-viridis-water-cooled-haf-912/

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Considering the case takes up 20% of the budget, it may not be the best idea to get the Define R4 as a case.

 

Edits: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1VNmm

If it's too expensive, drop the ssd. 

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