[Build Ready] PC for a friend. Thoughts?

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Louden257

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Building a cheap PC for a friend. Built my own half a year ago and it turned out perfect but figured I'd get some opinions on this one. This one should be decent I think, can handle most games, and is very cost effective. Very low budget on this one. Any thoughts on what to change?

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/26yMr
 
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It's not very good value for money, and there's a few reasons for that.
The graphics card is pretty much pointless, for $10 extra on the HDD you can quadruple its capacity, the monitor is analogue only and low resolution and the PSU is junk. For the money you can do a lot better.

Here's something I knocked together, keeping the price as low as possible. Its under $550 so it gives you a bit of money to play with. The aforementioned FX6300 is definitely a good buy if you prefer to spend a bit more on CPU. It might be worth considering doubling up on RAM too, which is why I left a slot free. Alternatively, you can spend more on graphics and upgrade to something like a HD7850, or get some decent speakers (I imagine $8 speakers are...
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If your looking to have best performance for less money, you are probably better off looking at an amd build. An fx 6300 processor will be your best bet, it is the same price as that intel i3 with three times the amount of cores.
As for the video card it will struggle playing most games on 30fps with average settings. A Radeon HD 7790 would have better performance in the similar price range.
Also if you spend a little more and get 8gb (4gb x 2) it will certainly boost gaming performance.
 
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It's not very good value for money, and there's a few reasons for that.
The graphics card is pretty much pointless, for $10 extra on the HDD you can quadruple its capacity, the monitor is analogue only and low resolution and the PSU is junk. For the money you can do a lot better.

Here's something I knocked together, keeping the price as low as possible. Its under $550 so it gives you a bit of money to play with. The aforementioned FX6300 is definitely a good buy if you prefer to spend a bit more on CPU. It might be worth considering doubling up on RAM too, which is why I left a slot free. Alternatively, you can spend more on graphics and upgrade to something like a HD7850, or get some decent speakers (I imagine $8 speakers are horrendous).

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 760K 3.8GHz Quad-Core Processor ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: MSI FM2-A55M-E33 Micro ATX FM2 Motherboard ($29.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: A-Data XPG Gaming Series 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($29.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($58.99 @ NCIX US)
Video Card: MSI Radeon HD 7790 1GB Video Card ($105.66 @ Newegg)
Case: Antec One ATX Mid Tower Case ($29.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($25.99 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($82.99 @ NCIX US)
Monitor: Samsung S23C570H 23.0" Monitor ($99.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $542.58
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-11-23 05:40 EST-0500)
 
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