600-700$ Gaming PC

Spencer993

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Hello,

My friend needs a 600-700$ gaming PC.

What is the best build? This is my idea:

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

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor ($109.99 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: ASRock 970 EXTREME4 ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($86.49 @ Newegg)
Memory: A-Data XPG V1.0 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($34.99 @ TigerDirect)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda ES 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($161.40 @ TigerDirect)
Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 750 1GB Video Card ($119.99 @ Amazon)
Case: Thermaltake VL80001W2Z ATX Mid Tower Case ($24.99 @ Micro Center)
Power Supply: Antec EarthWatts Platinum 550W 80+ Platinum Certified ATX Power Supply ($89.99 @ Amazon)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($89.98 @ OutletPC)
Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WN881ND 802.11b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter ($18.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $736.81
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-05-27 19:14 EDT-0400)

Is this good? Any way I could fit in 8 GBs of RAM?

Thanks,
Spencer :)
 
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couplpoe of thigns that hardrive price is WAY WAY WAY to high you should be able too get it for like 60-70 second you do not need a platinum power suply for a budget ocmputer get a cx430 or xfx 550w for like 20-40$ next i would upgrade you graphic card to a r7 265 or r9 270/270x (whatevers less) and finaly try and squeen in 8 gigs of ram

legokill101

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couplpoe of thigns that hardrive price is WAY WAY WAY to high you should be able too get it for like 60-70 second you do not need a platinum power suply for a budget ocmputer get a cx430 or xfx 550w for like 20-40$ next i would upgrade you graphic card to a r7 265 or r9 270/270x (whatevers less) and finaly try and squeen in 8 gigs of ram
 
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legokill101

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no problem also at that price it might be better to save money and get a 4th gen core i3 which in aplication that use 4 or fewer threads should preforme almost the same for less (when you consider that you can get a much cheaper mobo for that) and use the saved money to beef up your graphics card