Need Help with Budget Gaming Build

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threeDguru

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Building a Computer for my gamer girlfriend and Would like to keep it on the low end. Any help would be great. Thanks [H]

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc
Light Gaming/Web Browsing (World of Warcraft
2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?
$600 max!
3) Where do you live?
Texas
4) What exact parts do you need for that budget? CPU, RAM, case, etc. "Everything" is not a valid answer. Please list out all the parts you'll need.
CPU, Mobo, Case (possibly with PSU combo), PSU, Ram, Video Card, HDD, DVD drive,
5) If reusing any parts, what parts will you be reusing? Please be especially specific about the power supply. List make and model.
NONE
6) Will you be overclocking?
No
7) What size monitor do you have and/or plan to have?
20-22'' Widescreen
8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC?
End of August
9) What features do you need in a motherboard? RAID? Firewire? Crossfire or SLI support? etc.
Nothing fancy.
10) Do you already have a legit and reusable/transferable OS key/license? If so, what OS? 32bit or 64bit?
Yes, Windows 7 Ulitmate 64
 
$130 - AMD Athlon II X4 635 CPU + Biostar A770E3 AMD 770 ATX Motherboard
$82 - G.Skill F3-10600CL9D-4GBNT 2 x 2GB DDR3 1333 RAM
$145 - Sapphire 100283-3L Radeon HD 5770 1GB PCI-E Video Card
$55 - Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD502HJ 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
$22 - LG iHAS124-04 DVD Burner
$52 - Antec NEO ECO 400C 400W PSU
$56 - NZXT M59 ATX Case
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Total: $542 plus tax and shipping.
 
Danny's build is good. You could spend up to your max budget by upgrading the CPU to a Phenom II X4 and maybe upgrade to a bit better of a motherboard. For the money his is pretty spot on though.
 
threeDguru said:
bump it up
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No offense, due to your requirement of buying every part from one place, relatively light requirements, and your low budget, really not much variety here. I mean if you want to see more options, please state what else you're looking for in a gaming PC. Whether a different case, different sized PC, etc, etc

Out of curiosity, how much is my build once tax and shipping is factored in for you?
 
threeDguru said:
$549.47
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So roughly $50 or so.

Well that leaves you enough money for either a HDD upgrade or a case upgrade or even one of the PSU + case combos that hossdaddy linked to.

HDD:
$75 - Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive

Case:
$70 - Lian Li Lancool PC-K56 ATX Case
$70 - Cooler Master RC-590-KKN1-GP ATX Case
$70 - Cooler Master CM690 II ATX Case
$100 - Lian Li PC-7B Plus II ATX Case
$90 - Cooler Master HAF 922 RC-922M-KKN1-GP ATX Case
 
threeDguru said:
How does a AM2 5400+ Brisbane perform?

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+ Brisbane 2.8GHz $52.99

The reason I ask is cause my friend has a BNIB AM2 board thats he's willing to give to me.

ECS GeForce6100SM-M2

Of course this would mean different ram so how about-

G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) $89.99


Would WoW run good on this system at 1920x1080?
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The X2 5400+ is an extremely slow CPU compared to the $60 Athlon II X2 245 let alone the $95 Athlon X4 635. It would not run well at 1920x1080 as WOW has become very CPU heavy in the past few years. You'd have to get DDR2 RAM for free in order for that planned setup to be worthwhile.

So yeah, you're better off with the newer setup I quoted above.
 
threeDguru said:
Actually how does a GTX 260 (core 216) compare to a 5770?
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The GTX 260 offers similar performance to the HD 5770 but uses significantly more power and does not support DX11. Right now, most GTX 260 cards are either A) stupidly overpriced at $170 to $200 or B) cheap as hell but has zero warranty left (basically the BFG GTX 260 cards).

So if low power, warranty and DX11 are important, the GTX 260 is not a good choice.
 
Well i currently have a GTX 260 and was thinking about purchasing a GTX 460 for my Sig Rig and putting the 260 into the new system for the S/O, how does that sound?
 
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