Best Budget Rig For Light Gaming?

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MagicSushi12

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Hello everybody,
I am wanting a new pc to replace my old (Dangerously old) system with an AMD Athlon x2 3800+ 2.0 Ghz and AMD Radeon HD 6450. As you can imagine, I get horrid performance with this system but just hadn't had the money to get a new one, the economy's rough right now, Obama. So I was thinking about getting a budget pc (Around or under $300) that can play minecraft on an online multiplayer server at 40+ fps while recording with Fraps. I've already came up with a few amd apu builds for about $250 but am looking for some feedback. I also already have a hard drive, os, keyboard and mouse, monitor, and speakers. I also want the system to contain quality parts from name brand companies, preferably Corsair and MSI, but am open to others. Here is my example build so please leave feedback and recommendations below:
AMD A-8 5600k APU 3.9 Ghz
MSI A55M-E35 FM2 Motherboard
Corsair CX430 430w PSU
Adata XPG V1.0 4GB 1600 RAM
DIYPC FM08-W Case (Idk the reliability of DIYPC, but the case is cheap, has good reviews, and I like the case)
 
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First if your trying to Video Editing (recording your gaming performance) it slams your FPS in half normally, and you need a strong CPU to do the calculations for rendering of video and audio. APUs, even with a added GPU, are built per AMD for "low demand, low cost, low power' uses, such as grandma getting on facebook, NOT for gaming. There is several benchmarks that show this, and the APU becomes the real problem even when teamed up with a separate GPU card, as it is too low power, too few cores, too low Mhz, etc. EVEN for light gaming, another person on here cited Civ 5 for example, yeah the APU you have does 30FPS on LOW and can't perform the game past that level of graphics for a 'light gaming' and that is a 2010 game.

Honestly...
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Thank you for the info
 
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Beezy

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more importantly, the RAM has to be FAST. 2133 Mhz with lowest possible CAS
 
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First if your trying to Video Editing (recording your gaming performance) it slams your FPS in half normally, and you need a strong CPU to do the calculations for rendering of video and audio. APUs, even with a added GPU, are built per AMD for "low demand, low cost, low power' uses, such as grandma getting on facebook, NOT for gaming. There is several benchmarks that show this, and the APU becomes the real problem even when teamed up with a separate GPU card, as it is too low power, too few cores, too low Mhz, etc. EVEN for light gaming, another person on here cited Civ 5 for example, yeah the APU you have does 30FPS on LOW and can't perform the game past that level of graphics for a 'light gaming' and that is a 2010 game.

Honestly you can't get a game system for under $700 especially if your video recording, you will be in the single and 10s FPS range when you play. If you want a alternative for so little stick to consoles. Never have to worry about any of this and there is plenty of gaming recording done on those platforms too.
 
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