How To Build A Solid $500 Gaming PC For Fallout 4 And GTA V

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Mr_No said:

haxxiy said:

 As for those claiming it is a weak build, it probably still outperforms over 90% gaming PCs in the planet, as per Steam data on hardware.

I can't speak for the rest of the people in this thread, but I don't think this is a weak build. Sure, the point is to make a PC that can run GTA V and Fallout 4 properly, but what about future games? Will they run on this build? If it doesn't, will the people buy more cheap parts to make it run recent games or will they just try to futureproof it by going for the recently released expensive parts?

It's not a weak build per se, but if I have the choice spending $600 on this build (OS + Keyboard/mouse + 360-controller included) or $650 - $660 for the same build with a R9 290 (4GB) instead of the R9 380 (2GB), I never would cheap out on the last 50 - 60 bucks.

The 10% higher price will bring at least 50% more performance and a lot less worries with badly optimized VRAM-hungry games.