Need Help building a 1300$$$ Budget gaming Pc

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XenobladeX

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Can someone please post a link to Amazon for parts to build a new PC. I only want parts from Amazon and my budget is 1,300$$$. I don't need Windows or a mouse, keyboard or monitor. I want to have the Gtx 980 in my setup and be able to run The Witcher 3 with 45+ frames with physx enabled. If you can perhaps explain how I can use a weaker/cheaper nvidia card to utilize physx for the witcher 3 that way The 980 can focus on running the game maxed. Please only answer if your linking parts from amazon.
 
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herrwizo

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Try this:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($234.99 @ Amazon)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($34.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: MSI Z97-GAMING 5 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($147.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($62.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Crucial MX100 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($104.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($54.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 4GB ACX 2.0 Video Card ($549.99 @ Amazon)
Case: Corsair SPEC-02 ATX Mid Tower Case ($59.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($74.99 @ Amazon)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer ($17.92 @ Amazon)
Total: $1343.83
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-02-26 02:55 EST-0500

Included optical drive, wasn't sure you need one.
 
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XenobladeX

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Is the optical drive needed?

 
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James Mason

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Here you go, this build will allow you to overclock your CPU, you didn't say whether you wanted that option or not, but on systems of this price it's usually recommended. You can save about $100 if you don't want that option though. You'll probably need to add a aftermarket CPU cooler if you want to pursue that heavily though:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($254.96 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($124.76 @ Amazon)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($68.34 @ Amazon)
Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($57.49 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($59.66 @ Amazon)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 4GB ACX 2.0 Video Card ($596.73 @ Amazon)
Case: Thermaltake Versa H21 ATX Mid Tower Case ($37.80 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($68.34 @ Amazon)
Total: $1268.08
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-02-26 03:06 EST-0500
 
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john TJ

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($219.75 @ OutletPC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($29.98 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: MSI Z97-GAMING 5 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($139.88 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Kingston Savage 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2133 Memory ($69.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: A-Data Premier Pro SP900 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($61.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($51.89 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 980 4GB AMP! Extreme Edition Video Card ($563.99 @ NCIX US)
Case: Thermaltake Commander G42 ATX Mid Tower Case ($57.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: Antec 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($108.99 @ Mac Mall)
Total: $1304.45
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-02-26 03:51 EST-0500

ssd will get you much faster bootups and very high transfer speeds
 
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James Mason

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Optical drive is optional and dirt cheap, just get the cheapest one, you can more likely than not use your current optical drive anyways.

You don't "need" a CPU cooler as the CPU will come with a stock one that's pretty good and allows a moderate overclock anyways, which you won't really need at this point anyways.

SSDs ARE entirely optional, you aren't missing all that much by not getting one. People vastly oversell their benefits. They basically ONLY make the PC restart like 50% faster than a regular HDD. A regular HDD takes about 20 seconds though.
 
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