Looking to build a budget gaming/editing PC around $650

Masonjb

Honorable
Nov 24, 2013
1
0
10,510
Alright, I am new to building PC's and I want to give it a go. I am a techy person and would like to build a PC for doing a lot of video editing with 1080p footage and also great for playing the latest games.

Ideally I would like to spend around $650, taking into consideration I want to buy all the parts cheaper on Black Friday. So if I could get somewhat of around a $1000 PC for around $650 on Black Friday that would be awesome.

I really am pretty clueless as to what parts go together and what I need. I think I would prefer intel though for a processor. Windows 7 would be nice.

Any help is appreciated, my plan is to have all the parts I need in a list and to get them at sale price on Black Friday or cyber Monday. Thanks!

-Mason
 

maurelie

Honorable
-If it was just for editing $1000 would be just fine, but you want also to play games, and that just adds up to the total sum.
-I personally recommend intel i7 for video editing, but since the budget didn't allowed and you wanted the pc to be able to play latest games, i had to cut down to intel i5 and enthusiast graphics card.

-Hope this is what you want.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($197.99 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77-HD3 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($69.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($109.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($89.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($82.99 @ NCIX US)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 760 2GB Video Card ($249.99 @ Newegg)
Case: NZXT NZXT H230 Black ATX Mid Tower ATX Mid Tower Case ($64.99 @ Mwave)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($25.99 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer ($14.99 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($82.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $989.90
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-11-24 12:44 EST-0500)