Budget Gaming Rig

[celica91st]

My budgets is around $1000, so I plugged some things into AVA Direct and here is what I got:

CUSTOM PC Phenom™ II AM3 DDR3-1333 Mainstream Series Desktop Computer System $1083.88 $
COOLER MASTER Elite 310 Black Mid Tower Case, ATX, No PSU, Plastic/Steel
KINGWIN Maximum ABT-610MM Power Supply, 610W, 24-pin ATX12V, 2x +12V Rails, 2x 6-pin PCIe, Retail
ASUS M4A77TD, AM3, AMD® 770, DDR3-1800 (O.C.) 16GB /4, PCIe x16, SATA 3 Gb/s RAID 10 /6, HDA, GbLAN, ATX, Retail
AMD Phenom™ II X6 1055T Six-Core 2.8GHz, AM3, HT 4000MHz, 6x 512KB L2 + 6MB L3 cache, 125W, 45nm, Retail
THERMALTAKE SpinQ CPU Cooling Fan, Socket 1366/1156/775/754/939/AM2/AM3, Aluminum/Copper
ARCTIC COOLING MX-2 High-Performance Thermal Compound, Electrically Non-Conductive
MUSHKIN 8GB (2 x 4GB) Enhanced Silverline PC3-10666 DDR3 1333MHz CL9 (9-9-9-24) 1.5V SDRAM DIMM, Non-ECC
EVGA GeForce® GTS 250 675MHz, 1GB GDDR3 1800MHz, PCIe x16 SLI, VGA+DVI, HDMI, Retail
SEAGATE 1TB Barracuda® 7200.12, SATA 3 Gb/s, 7200 RPM, 32MB cache
RAID No RAID, Independent HDD Drives
SONY AD-7241S Black 24x DVD±R/RW Dual-Layer Burner w/ Lightscribe, SATA, OEM
SABRENT CRW-UINB Black 65-in-1 Card Reader/Writer Drive, 3.5" Bay, Internal USB
MICROSOFT Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Edition, OEM
WARRANTY Silver Warranty Package (3 Year Limited Parts, 3 Year Labor Warranty)


I live close, so I can avoid the $26 in shipping and since I'm in education I don't have to pay sales tax since I will be using it for educational purposes as well. What do you guys think? Decent gaming rig?

 

[lt_shiro]

spend another $100 and get a gtx 460, gts 250 is pretty weak by today's standards.

 

[bastage]

I Dont think thats worth the money.. If you want to pick & choose components your best off building yourself.

 

[Dangman]

The PSU is crap. Go for a Corsair or Antec or Seasonic. Besides that, seems like an ok-ish gaming PC. It's the price that gets me though.

You can build a better PC for a little less than that prebuilt:
$200 - AMD Phenom II X6 1055T CPU
$80 - MSI 880GM-E43 AMD 880G mATX Motherboard
$162 - 2 x G.Skill F3-10600CL9D-4GBNT 2 x 2GB DDR3 1333 RAM
$145 - Sapphire 100283-3L Radeon HD 5770 1GB PCI-E Video Card
$75 - Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
$18 - LG GH22LS50 DVD Burner w/ Lightscribe Support
$30 - Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus HSF for LGA 1366 and LGA 1156
$70 - Antec NEO ECO 620C 620W PSU
$50 - Cooler Master Elite 335 RC-335-KKN1-GP ATX Case
$100 - Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit OEM
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$930 plus tax and shipping

Key differences:
- Significantly better quality power supply
- Significantly faster hard drive
- Significantly faster video card
- Significantly better quality HSF
- Better cooling case
- Mobo with newer features.