$500 gaming pc?

Steven Ramos

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I was looking for a $500 pc that could maybe run source games at medium and other at medium also.And if you could include the OS in the parts and if you could make a part list/wishlist on New egg since that is where I'll be buy my parts from
 

Mike Friesen

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Yeah, going for a max build will look something like this:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor ($69.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H81M-DS2V Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($49.69 @ Newegg)
Memory: Patriot Viper 3 Low Profile Blue 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($67.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 280 3GB Dual-X Video Card ($189.99 @ Newegg)
Case: NZXT Source 210 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($29.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($29.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $497.63

A more well rounded solution would look like this:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4160 3.6GHz Dual-Core Processor ($119.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H81M-DS2V Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($49.69 @ Newegg)
Memory: Patriot Viper 3 Low Profile Blue 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($67.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R7 265 2GB Video Card ($129.99 @ Newegg)
Case: NZXT Source 210 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($29.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($29.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $487.63
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-28 03:56 EDT-0400

If you needed Windows included in that cost, I'd go for the Pentium, and the 265.
Anyways, the top build will do best when putting the settings to the max, but may not get as high FPS in the med-high settings as the second build, because of the weaker cpu. (Well really it depends on the overclock.) The Pentium-265 option will still put out high fps at high settings BTW, in all games except a few, Crysis 3, the Witcher 2/3, Metro LL, where it'll still get ~40 fps at high settings, low AA
 
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD FX-4300 3.8GHz Quad-Core Processor ($87.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Mushkin Silverline 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($31.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital RE3 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($41.49 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Asus Radeon R7 260X 2GB DirectCU II Video Card ($103.99 @ NCIX US)
Case: NZXT Source 210 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($29.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($39.99 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer ($14.99 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($89.98 @ OutletPC)
Total: $500.40
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-28 04:09 EDT-0400
 
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Malli Karim

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Wow did you really just give him a Haswell Refresh with an old board H81 board? They don't work together unless you get extremely lucky and get a board that had its bios already updated, which on these old ass boards is highly unlikely. If u cant get the H97 board or if the place where u buy from doesnt have a bios update service just get the pentium.