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I am building a gaming pc for my friend.
He just wanted to game on 720p, but needs to play on ultra with 30 fps on every game, and need it to be as cheap as possible.
Assembled pcs cost a lot in my area, and aren't worth it. They charge a premium, while cheapening every component as much as possible and then selling them in 3 categories, dual core, i3 and i5. And you can't game on these either, as the power supply is a local one and too low to install a gpu.
I tried asking him to get amd processor, as you can get a 6 core for the price of an i3, but he said he need intel. No one goes for amd in our area unless it is the gpu.
The 4th gen(haswell) processors hadn't come here yet, even if it has, it will be too costly, and there is no noticeable performance gain anyway.
So i settled with a pentium g2020 which is the cheapest here at Rs 3200, an i3 would cost two and a half times that.
then looked for a cheap mobo with b75, and came up with Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3H, all it needs.
Then a kingston 4gb 1600 mhz ram, 1tb seagate barracuda hdd, and then came the gpu.
He didn't want to spend too much for the gpu, but i insisted he did. And he agreed to spend Rs 7500 for a gpu, and the hd 7770 1gb gddr5 did fit the budget. The 7750 was only Rs 300 cheaper, which is nothing, but the 7770 is much more powerful. He wanted nvidia, but the only good one in that price range was the gtx 650, which costed a bit more than the 7770, and it is much weaker than the 7770. The gtx 650 ti/ 750 costs Rs 9500, which is well over the budget.
And finally settled with the 7770.
The last one is the psu. I tried convincing him to get a good branded psu, but he said he would get a local one instead since it costs 5 times less. A 450W psu from corsair would cost 5 times more than the zebronics one,. Antec, seasonic, coolermaster, etc costs even more here.
Here is the questions
1) Is it ok to get a cheap psu?How is a branded psu worth 5 times more?
2) Is the pentium good for a budget build? For gaming and everyday apps.
3) Will anything bottleneck the 7770?
4) If you are building this pc for yourself and have a bit more cash to spare(like $50), what would you get(like getting an i3 instead, a better gpu, another 4 gb stick, etc)
This will max out every game, right?
He just wanted to game on 720p, but needs to play on ultra with 30 fps on every game, and need it to be as cheap as possible.
Assembled pcs cost a lot in my area, and aren't worth it. They charge a premium, while cheapening every component as much as possible and then selling them in 3 categories, dual core, i3 and i5. And you can't game on these either, as the power supply is a local one and too low to install a gpu.
I tried asking him to get amd processor, as you can get a 6 core for the price of an i3, but he said he need intel. No one goes for amd in our area unless it is the gpu.
The 4th gen(haswell) processors hadn't come here yet, even if it has, it will be too costly, and there is no noticeable performance gain anyway.
So i settled with a pentium g2020 which is the cheapest here at Rs 3200, an i3 would cost two and a half times that.
then looked for a cheap mobo with b75, and came up with Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3H, all it needs.
Then a kingston 4gb 1600 mhz ram, 1tb seagate barracuda hdd, and then came the gpu.
He didn't want to spend too much for the gpu, but i insisted he did. And he agreed to spend Rs 7500 for a gpu, and the hd 7770 1gb gddr5 did fit the budget. The 7750 was only Rs 300 cheaper, which is nothing, but the 7770 is much more powerful. He wanted nvidia, but the only good one in that price range was the gtx 650, which costed a bit more than the 7770, and it is much weaker than the 7770. The gtx 650 ti/ 750 costs Rs 9500, which is well over the budget.
And finally settled with the 7770.
The last one is the psu. I tried convincing him to get a good branded psu, but he said he would get a local one instead since it costs 5 times less. A 450W psu from corsair would cost 5 times more than the zebronics one,. Antec, seasonic, coolermaster, etc costs even more here.
Here is the questions
1) Is it ok to get a cheap psu?How is a branded psu worth 5 times more?
2) Is the pentium good for a budget build? For gaming and everyday apps.
3) Will anything bottleneck the 7770?
4) If you are building this pc for yourself and have a bit more cash to spare(like $50), what would you get(like getting an i3 instead, a better gpu, another 4 gb stick, etc)
This will max out every game, right?
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