$600 approx Gaming PC

Comraderose

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Sep 8, 2013
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Approximate Purchase Date: Within 2 weeks

Budget Range: Approximately $600 before shipping. Prefer no mail-in

System Usage from Most to Least Important: WoW, Diablo 3, Darksouls. would love to run BF4 but not necessary

Are you buying a monitor: Not right now but later

Parts to Upgrade: EVERYTHING except disk drive

Do you need to buy OS: No windows 7

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Newegg and Amazon preferable

Location: City, State/Region, Country - Charlotte NC

Parts Preferences: Preferable Intel but whatever works best for the build

Overclocking: Maybe?

SLI or Crossfire: Maybe?

Your Monitor Resolution: not important. I will be buying one separate later

Additional Comments: Id really like to be able to keep a game running in the background while playing another

And Most Importantly, Why Are You Upgrading: MULTITASKING! and higher frame rates. I also run a third party program with WoW that locks into the framerate and doesn't take a lot of memory but on my current system sometimes makes the game unplayable
Im running these thing already on a 9+ y/o Dell XPS and I just cant handle it anymore.


Thanks for any help!
 
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maurelie

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Here is something for $600

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor ($109.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: Asus M5A99X EVO R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($114.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Kingston Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($69.29 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Asus Radeon R9 270 2GB Video Card ($185.66 @ Newegg)
Case: Enermax ECA3253-BW ATX Mid Tower Case ($47.98 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($49.99 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NSB0 DVD/CD Writer ($22.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $600.88
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-12-25 13:06 EST-0500)

-Multitasking- Yes
-Overclocking- Yes, but get better CPU cooler
-SLI/Crossfire- Yes, but dual X8
-And i would suggest you to play one game at the time, because playing two games at same time while the other is minimized is a big task even for high end pc's
 
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