| ofrm1 said: Way too cheap of a build. Won't be relevant two years from now and you'll have to spend a bunch more just to make it relevant. Drop the 6300. Get an i5 4460. Drop the TX3 and get a 212 evo. Pick up a cheap h87 motherboard. Ram's fine. Add an 120gb SSD to the 1TB HD. Drop the 2GB 380 and get a 4GB one. Case is expensive for a budget build. Just get a cheap thermaltake. They're big and usually have plenty of 3.0 ports. I prefer CX600 for an AMD card because of the higher TDP. Going AMD CPU and GPU with a 550w is likely dangerous depending on how high you overclock. Total will be a little over 800. This is the absolute lowest I would go with a build. Any lower and I'll be eating cost down the road by being forced to upgrade. |
Here is my PC. Cost less than $700.
i5 4690k - $210 (bought half a year ago for a nice price off ebay, before that I had a G3258 which I now use in an HTPC I recently built.)
r9 280x - $190 (after special savings a year ago, with three free games.)
8 GB GDDR3 1600 mhz - $70 (when I purchased it a year ago) is $40-50 now.
ASROCK Z97 Anniversary ($70 after rebate)
Sandisk 240GB SSD ($80 half a year ago)
250GB 5200 RPM Seagate which I have recycled from a Dell office PC I owned 8 years ago. The HDD still has all its sectors working and runs at full capacity since I have only used it sporadically as a usb storage drive for years. (Free)
Corsair CX 500 ($25 after rebate.)
Osrock Mid-tower ($40)
No shipping and no tax
Total: $680 (after rebates)
Since I don't care about ultra settings, this will probably last me for a good generation with no upgrade.
