ideas for budget PC builds?

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anthony64641 said:

Next gen i decided to go with a gaming PC (along with my WiiU). theres soo many places to start when making a pc but my main goal is to keep the price under 400$ USD and be able to run great games with at least graphical med setting.
One pc build that i came up with is as followed:

APU: Amd A10-5800k trinity 3.8 quad core with radeon HD 7660D (intergraded graphics)-130$

Motherboard: MSI FM2 Micro ATX AMD mobo-60$

Ram: 8gb of DDr3 ram-40$

Case and PSU: Rosewill mid tower case with psu-60$

HDD- Western Digital 500gb harddrive-60$

Monitor: use old one

mouse and key board: use old one

that all comes out to, 350$ without taxs!
so what do you think? if you recommend something else please let me know in the comments. Thanks

Just be careful what RAM you are buying if you're going with A10 - make sure it's 2x4GB kit instead of 1x8GB, there's up to 50-60% difference in game performance between single channel and dual channel configs:

http://www.overclock.net/t/1269500/amd-apu-laptops-and-memory-sensitivity-i-e-why-you-need-to-choose-an-apu-laptop-with-a-dual-channel-ddr3-1600-config

You can check how 7660D performs here:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/graphics/display/amd-trinity-graphics_6.html#sect1

Not a great solution overall, if you're willing to spend some $40-$50 more, you can go with Athlon X4 740 and HD 7750 - just make sure it's GDDR5, DDR3 versions perform really bad compared to them:

http://ht4u.net/reviews/2012/msi_radeon_hd_7750_2gb_ddr3_test/index39.php&usg=ALkJrhi1G4TxkhzXnvN1ZfRJ3KdXukbpQQ?dummy=&advancedFilter=true&prod[]=AMD+Radeon+HD+7750+2GB+DDR3&prod[]=AMD+Radeon+HD+7750&filter[0][]=1680&filter[0][]=1920&filter[0][]=2560&filter[2][]=1&filter[2][]=2x2+SSAA&filter[2][]=2x2+SSAA+%2B+MLAA&filter[2][]=4&filter[2][]=8&filter[2][]=FXAA+-+hoch&filter[2][]=MLAA&filter[2][]=Post+AA&filter[3][]=16&aa=all