Is This a Good $500 Gaming PC?

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If you start off with 4GB RAM it gives you more money to spend on the video card. You can always add another 4GB later. I threw in a much better motherboard too.

PCPartPicker part list: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/3Q4Zr
Price breakdown by merchant: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/3Q4Zr/by_merchant/
Benchmarks: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/3Q4Zr/benchmarks/

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 750K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($79.97 @ Amazon Canada)
Motherboard: Asus A78M-A Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard ($63.75 @ Vuugo)
Memory: Kingston Black Series 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($39.99 @ Memory Express)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($59.99 @ DirectCanada)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Video Card ($149.99 @ Amazon Canada)
Case: Xion XON-560 MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($39.99 @ Amazon Canada)
Power Supply: Antec EarthWatts Green 380W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($48.50 @ Vuugo)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer ($16.79 @ DirectCanada)
Total: $498.97
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-05-24 13:47 EDT-0400)
 
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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Celeron G1840 2.8GHz Dual-Core Processor ($49.98 @ Newegg Canada)
Motherboard: ASRock H81M Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($63.50 @ Vuugo)
Memory: Patriot Viper 3 Low Profile Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($79.96 @ DirectCanada)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($59.97 @ DirectCanada)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Video Card ($149.99 @ Amazon Canada)
Case: Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mid Tower Case ($44.79 @ DirectCanada)
Power Supply: Corsair Enthusiast 650W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($59.99 @ Memory Express)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer ($16.79 @ DirectCanada)
Total: $524.97
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-05-24 14:07 EDT-0400)
What about this one ?
 
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I would like to play Battlefield 3 and Outlast on 1080p in a perfect world, but I would be ok with 720p
 
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I remember you helped me before. You really like the GTX 750 Ti don't you? :p
I want to have 8GB of RAM because sometimes I like to be on a skype call while I'm playing and also to have chrome open. If that doesn't require RAM though, please tell me :)
Maybe this build: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/user/FreakinJoel/saved/4MPG
 
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Joel7596

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Thank you, but I would prefer to have a Quad Core CPU with at least 3Ghz

 
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tha amd athlon is a dual core, 4 threads so, it means a dual core with extra two cores which won't give any benefir in gaming and the clock isn't importanta, for gaming the most important thing is the ALPU (Arthimitic Logic processing unit)
 
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Thank you, but I would prefer to have a Quad Core CPU with at least 3Ghz
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3ghz means very little. The Athlon 750k is rated at 3.4ghz/4.0ghz and the i5 4430 is rated at 3.0ghz/3.2ghz, but the i5 is almost twice as powerful. If Intel made a quad core 2.4ghz cpu, it would perform about the same as the Athlon.


tha amd athlon is a dual core, 4 threads so, it means a dual core with extra two cores which won't give any benefir in gaming and the clock isn't importanta, for gaming the most important thing is the ALPU (Arthimitic Logic processing unit)
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The Athlon x4 750k IS a quad core cpu. 4 cores with 4 threads.

 
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4 cores with 4 threads but each to cores share one ALPU (Arithmetic Logic Processing Unit) which is the most important thing for gaming, this gives the smae idea as a hyper-threaded dual core from intel as hyper-threading means that each ALPU has two cores on it.
 
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