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

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Conina said:

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.

Actually the r9 290 isn't even that much greater price-wise (if fan-noise isn't an issue - I personally hear any AMD card, they are all loud, so I don't mind.) 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202043

$220 after rebate for a Sapphire R9 290 vs. $199 (after rebate) for the 2GB r9 380 in the OP. Although I suppose the power supply in the OP would probably have to be changed as well since the r9 290 has 35% higher TDP than the r9 380.