Advice for my budget gaming PC $600

Jopet Cervantes · Jul 4, 2014

Hi There, i need advice for my budget gaming PC. can i know weather this is a good build or do i need to change some of the parts so it would be cheaper for me. and also need help if some of my parts are not compatible.

Parts:
Processor: Intel Core i3-4150 3.50GHz (Dual Core) Haswell Refresh
PS: Corsair VS450
Case: Fractal Design DEFINE Mini
GPU: EVGA GTX 650 Ti 2gb DDR5
RAM: 1x Corsair XMS3 4GB DDR3 1333
Mobo: MSI B85M-P33
HDD: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB

Here is the Price List for the parts: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/4GFFK8
*there is no price for the power supply but the price of should be around $35

I hope you can help me guys! im still a newbie in building custom PC

coops1 · Jul 4, 2014

Hi,

One of the choices which stands out to me is the graphics card you have chosen. The 650 ti is an older model and that price seems very high for the performance you would get. My advice would be to buy an AMD r7 265 instead (or an R9 270 if you can find one cheap), which is about $30 cheaper and will give you a fair performance boost (http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/radeon-r7-265-review,review-32887.html). You could then use the extra money to buy 8GB of RAM, instead of 4GB, this would be useful as many games are starting to need more and more RAM. While the difference in performance between 1333mhz and 1600 mhz RAM is minimal, they can often be picked up for similar price so you may as well get 1600 mhz is possible.

You may also be able to save some money on your CPU / Motherboard combination without losing significant performance. You don't mention the features which you're looking for on your motherboard, but a cheaper H81 chipset board may be fine for your needs (eg. MSI H81M-E33), which only costs about $45. Another alternative would be to pick up the new Pentium anniversary edition, with a cheap cpu cooler (eg. hyper 212 evo) and an Asus h81/h87 board (whichI believe have overclocking options in BIOS) and overclock it. This will not perform as well as the i3, but saves a bit more money and offers great bang for buck.

Hope all this helps!

coops1 · Jul 4, 2014

Heres a couple part lists:

A) http://pcpartpicker.com/p/99MJmG $524 with the Pentium anniversary.

B) http://pcpartpicker.com/p/rVNXYJ $540 with the i3.

Option B will perform better in most games due to the hyper threading, unless you get a really high overclock on the Pentium, but with option A you get the fun of trying overclocking. Only thing I will say is double check that you can overclock on the motherboard in option A as I'm not 100% certain.

Jopet Cervantes · Jul 4, 2014

coops1 :

Thank you coops1 for your advise! this will surely help me a lot

Jopet Cervantes · Jul 5, 2014

coops1 :

Hi,

One of the choices which stands out to me is the graphics card you have chosen. The 650 ti is an older model and that price seems very high for the performance you would get. My advice would be to buy an AMD r7 265 instead (or an R9 270 if you can find one cheap), which is about $30 cheaper and will give you a fair performance boost (http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/radeon-r7-265-review,review-32887.html). You could then use the extra money to buy 8GB of RAM, instead of 4GB, this would be useful as many games are starting to need more and more RAM. While the difference in performance between 1333mhz and 1600 mhz RAM is minimal, they can often be picked up for similar price so you may as well get 1600 mhz is possible.

You may also be able to save some money on your CPU / Motherboard combination without losing significant performance. You don't mention the features which you're looking for on your motherboard, but a cheaper H81 chipset board may be fine for your needs (eg. MSI H81M-E33), which only costs about $45. Another alternative would be to pick up the new Pentium anniversary edition, with a cheap cpu cooler (eg. hyper 212 evo) and an Asus h81/h87 board (whichI believe have overclocking options in BIOS) and overclock it. This will not perform as well as the i3, but saves a bit more money and offers great bang for buck.

Hope all this helps!

Hi there i have double check the motherboard and the GPU combination and i think that the Mobo will slow my GPU, cause the mobo only support PCI-E 2.0 not 3.0.

lfkfkfkffs · Jul 5, 2014

Are you from the US or Canada? The 650 is kind of last gen and overpriced. If you are from the us you might want to go with the 750 ti. and also the 2.0 vs 3.0 for pci-e you won't even see any difference between the two.

coops1 · Jul 5, 2014

As stated above, the difference between pcie 2 & 3 will not be noticeable with a budget graphics card as you won't get close to the limitations of pcie 2.0.

Vic 40 · Jul 5, 2014

That is a very expensive case for a budget build.You really want that one? Money saved could go to a better gpu.
To me would something like this already look nice,
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/cooler-master-case-nse200kkn1
for m-atx that is.if you're specifically looking for that.,

Jopet Cervantes · Jul 5, 2014

lfkfkfkffs :

Vic 40 :

wow! cool, thank you for this. i'll now change my case to this one

PrizeN00b · Jul 5, 2014

I know people have their preferences, but I think for a budget like yours the best option is always going to be AMD.

Vic 40 · Jul 5, 2014

Glad you like the case.

I was looking at something like this for a build,
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Bnr9t6
or with overclocking,
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/bzRfFT
with this last one could you eventually upgrade to a i5 4690K too if you wanted.

Jopet Cervantes · Jul 6, 2014

PrizeN00b :

AMD GPU or CPU?

lfkfkfkffs · Jul 6, 2014

Intel for processor, and get the 750 ti if you have it available, the performance is really good vs the 650.

Vic 40 · Jul 6, 2014

Those two builds i've posted have the r9 270X in them,that's better than the gtx 750 ti.

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