Can someone build me a 550 or less gaming rig?

Schultzie67

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Mar 11, 2014
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Approximate Purchase Date: Within a month and a half.

Budget Range: 400-550

System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming, surfing the internet, skyping, schoolwork.

Are you buying a monitor: Yes / No

Do you need to buy OS: No

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Any

Location: USA, Illinois

Parts Preferences: No HDD as long as you can fit a 120 gb SSD or better.

Overclocking: Maybe

SLI or Crossfire: No

Your Monitor Resolution: 1024x768

Additional Comments: Quiet and not too flashy.

And Most Importantly, Why Are You Upgrading: I would like to run DayZ, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Saints Row The Third with no lag on high settings.

Thank you.
 
You live near a microcenter more then likely based off my store location search. I would look into this build first because you save A TON going with microcenter for CPU/MOBO.
http://www.microcenter.com/site/stores/default.aspx

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

Memory: Kingston Fury Black Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($64.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($84.99 @ Best Buy)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Video Card ($119.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case ($49.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($49.99 @ NCIX US)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer ($14.98 @ OutletPC)
Other: FX 8320 Black Edition 3.5GHz AM3+ Boxed Processor w/970A-G46 AM3+ ATX ($169.88)
Total: $554.81
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-06-06 18:09 EDT-0400)