New Build: $600 budget for LAN PARTIES

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caydn12

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Approximate Purchase Date: Christmas Gift

Budget Range: $600

System Usage from Most to Least Important: League of Legends, Other games, Portability, Web Browsing

Are you buying a monitor: No

Parts to Upgrade: New Build

Do you need to buy OS: No

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Newegg

Location: City, State/Region, Country - Oregon

Parts Preferences: No preference

Overclocking: Maybe

SLI or Crossfire: No

Your Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080,

Additional Comments: Prefer it to be quiet, and portable.

And Most Importantly, Why Are You Upgrading: Carrying my beast of a machine to lan parties is a pain in the butt. All my friends play League of Legends so that is our lan party game of choice.
 
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RazerZ

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-3350P 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor ($159.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock B75M-DGS R2.0 Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($58.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: G.Skill Ares Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($49.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($54.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2GB Video Card ($129.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Rosewill RANGER-M MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($38.46 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: XFX 650W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($39.99 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24F1ST DVD/CD Writer ($15.98 @ OutletPC)
Total: $548.37
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-12-01 00:18 EST-0500)
 
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realchaos

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4440 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor ($178.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H87N-WIFI Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard ($111.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: G.Skill Sniper Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($52.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($54.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2GB Video Card ($129.99 @ Newegg)
Case: BitFenix Prodigy (Black) Mini ITX Tower Case ($49.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: XFX 650W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($39.99 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24F1ST DVD/CD Writer ($15.98 @ OutletPC)
Total: $634.90
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-12-01 03:16 EST-0500)

I know this is much more expensive, but it uses the newer socket LGA 1150. Don't go with socket LGA 1155, it's a dead socket now as Ivy Bridge will soon be discontinued and then you can't upgrade your processor.

The motherboard is higher quality and even has built-in wireless adapter in case you can't hook up an ethernet cable during lan parties.

And finally, the case is relatively small and has handles for carrying.

If you want to bring the price down, go for this board: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asrock-motherboard-b85mitx
But then you'll lose out on wireless capabilities if that is important to you.
 
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