Building a new system for a buddy of mine. He's wanting to start playing Starcraft II and wants the finest gaming system ~$700 can buy. He's really not much of a PC enthusiast, so it's doubtful he's really going to want to tinker with overclocking or anything, so components that are good value at stock settings are preferred. He already picked out a Micro-ATX case that he liked the look of ($50) and got a copy of Windows 7 ($80) so for the remaining components we've got ~$570 to work with.
He's not planning on storing much of a video library either, so I was thinking an SSD might be nice. (Maybe this 240GB for $110.) We can snag whatever DVD burner is cheap for no more than $20.
So remaining components I need help selecting:
- CPU (don't plan on OCing)
- Motherboard (mATX)
- RAM, 8GB is nice if it fits in the budget (once I know CPU and mobo, I can probably figure this out)
- Graphics card
- PSU
And a ~$440 budget for those components. What do you fellows suggest?
He's not planning on storing much of a video library either, so I was thinking an SSD might be nice. (Maybe this 240GB for $110.) We can snag whatever DVD burner is cheap for no more than $20.
So remaining components I need help selecting:
- CPU (don't plan on OCing)
- Motherboard (mATX)
- RAM, 8GB is nice if it fits in the budget (once I know CPU and mobo, I can probably figure this out)
- Graphics card
- PSU
And a ~$440 budget for those components. What do you fellows suggest?
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