need help building very cheap gaming PC skyrim on medium or above

aaron96528 · Apr 19, 2015

I'm trying to build my first gaming PC and I need help and advice to buy very cheap parts but that are still amazing enough to run medium or high setting and thats upgradable later on. Looking to buy piece by piece over time what to start with and what can be left for last.

blue_smoke · Apr 19, 2015

Athlon 5350
MSI AM1 Motherboard
4gb ddr3
gtx 750 ti
evga 430w psu
1tb hard drive
250gb ssd
rosewill fbm-01

barto · Apr 19, 2015

Aaron, before anyone can provide an accurate build, there are a couple questions we need to be answered.

First, what is your budget? What is included in the budget?

I'm going to go ahead and make a point. Cheap builds and high settings typically don't work.

blue_smoke · Apr 20, 2015

Very cheap is usually 200-300

It depends. If you can get most of your stuff from ebay (Core 2 Duo E6850, GTX 660, some 250gb hdd, decent used EarthWatts PSU, some Dell Mobo, 4gb of ddr2) then you might be able to get to high settings @ 720p.

aaron96528 · May 1, 2015

blue_smoke :

question? why ddr2 not 3?

aaron96528 · May 1, 2015

was thinking of $350 a micro atx mid tower build amd processor and 4-8gb ram 4 if i can upgrade to 8 later and want it upgrade-able later on i know its alot but ive been searching

barto · May 1, 2015

Well medium settings would be possible at 720, but high settings is probably out. It's just too small of a budget for anything higher considering you'll most likely not have a discrete GPU.

aaron96528 · May 1, 2015

AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition FX-4300 (thinking of this one)
OS: Windows 7-8.1 (purchased)
Storage: WD Caviar blue 1Tb(made up my mind on this one)
PSU: CX450 (thinking of it)
Motherboard: ASRock 970M PRO3 (maybe)

Need help with compatibility

barto · May 1, 2015

The 4300 doesn't have graphics on it. The PC won't even boot. Again, a discrete graphics card is needed. For your budget, you'll have to go with an FM2+ CPU because of the embedded GPU on the CPU.

aaron96528 · May 2, 2015

I know it won't boot so far without video card I want to leave that for last I'm just saying those are the parts I have in mind so far

barto · May 2, 2015

It's not a bad start for a budget build. Everything is compatible so far.

aaron96528 · May 2, 2015

That budget is just for everything else the video card is separate I don't mind blowing video card is with it

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