Approx $600 gaming build

Comraderose

Honorable
Sep 8, 2013
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10,510
Approximate Purchase Date: Within 2 weeks!

Budget Range: Approx $600. Preferable no mail-ins

System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming! WoW, D3, Dark Souls. Would love to run BF4

Are you buying a monitor: Not right now

Parts to Upgrade: Everything expect an Optical drive

Do you need to buy OS: Nope!

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Preferable newegg and amazon

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

Parts Preferences: Preferable Intel!

Overclocking: Maybe

SLI or Crossfire: Maybe

Your Monitor Resolution: Will be upgrading soon but not right now

Additional Comments: Need no more then a 500gb HD. Needs to be good at multitasking

And Most Importantly, Why Are You Upgrading: Playing on a 9+ y/o Dell XPS and its time to upgrade. I also play WoW with a third party program that locks into the frame rates needs to run both smoothly and preferable 60+ fps
 
Solution
Stock is fine if your not planning to overclock. Its just some people like to run their cpu as cool as possible and order a cooler

Abscent

Honorable
Dec 23, 2013
375
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10,960
In order to stay right on your budget I had to jump to an AMD build to give you a good CPU/Mobo/GPU. Also if you want to overclock order an EVO 212 or for more money an H100i/80i. If you want to use a 760 over the 270x, it will only cost about $20 more. Also if you order an EVO 212 their thermal paste that comes with it is very good, saves you on ordering arctic silver 5

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor ($116.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Asus M5A97 R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($84.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Kingston Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($69.29 @ Amazon)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($47.94 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Asus Radeon R9 270X 2GB Video Card ($215.91 @ Newegg)
Case: Antec One ATX Mid Tower Case ($29.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($32.99 @ Microcenter)
Total: $598.09
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-12-26 15:03 EST-0500)