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Thoraxe2010

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First off hello and thank you in advance for helping me out I am very new to the gaming PC world so go easy on me.

OK so for starters I have a laptop that I am getting money back for at best buy should be about 800 dollars in store credit, I am going to try and sell it to someone so I can have cash to maybe buy the parts else where for cheaper since Best Buy is a little expensive. i want to try and keep the budget around 800 just for the tower itself so excluding the monitor, keyboard,and such but i am open to suggestions if you have any.

I have an old DELL Dimension E521 tower I understand that the components are outdated and probably not usable but could i the case it self as the case for the PC i am building? It is a very big case with a lot of room in it. i also have 2 sticks of 8GB 2Rx4 PC3 10600R I don't know if they are outdated memory sticks or not.


Here are the specs for it, I know that most is useless but i could be wrong.

http://www.pcworld.com/product/29437/dell-dimension-e521.html

And here are some picture of what it looks like. It seems to have pretty good ventilation for being a tower from 2007, i think it had vista on it still.

http://zapp5.staticworld.net/reviews/graphics/products/2006/10.13.06/25426_g3.jpg

http://www.ktechpc.com/delle521/images2/2.jpg

I plan on playing a variety of games both new and old but the more graphic demanding will be games like star citizen, skyrim, or GTA V I am not looking to play them on ultra but it would be nice to be able too.

Here is somethings i picked out so far

Corsair - CX Series Modular CX750M 750W ATX Power Supply - Black

Gigabyte - ATX Motherboard 1333/1600/2933/3000MHz (Socket LGA 1150) - Multi

Intel® - Core™ i5-4690K 3.5GHz Processor - Multi

EVGA - GeForce GTX 960 Ti 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 Graphics Card - Black

WD - Blue 1TB Internal SATA Hard Drive for Desktops (OEM/Bare Drive) - Black/Silver

All of this came to be about 700ish
 
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girdwood
You won't need 750 watt with the low power i5. That's a good processor, I would come down to the 4590, save a few dollars, and definitely invest in a GTX 960.

Take the $40 you will save on the processor and kick it towards the GPU will definitely get you in 960 range.


Here is a good build for under $700

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/cBtWTW
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/cBtWTW/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor ($188.95 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock Z97 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($82.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($49.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM...
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geofelt

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If I am not mistaken, that case is a BTX format which nobody makes motherboards for these days.
Plus, it does not have adequate ventilation.
And, those old cases had proprietary front panel connectors that you might need to rewire.
There are some decent cases out there for <$50.

A balanced gamer will budget twice the cpu cost for the graphics card. You have that reversed.
A i3-4160 and a GTX960 would be a stronger gamer with the same budget.

Modern motherboards need DDR3 ram. Your old ram may well find a sale on ebay.

A GTX750ti needs only a 300w psu. A GTX970 only needs 500w.
Corsair CX is only middling quality.
Look for tier 1 or 2 here.
https://community.newegg.com/eggxpert/computer_hardware/f/135081/t/45344.aspx?Redirected=true
 
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You won't need 750 watt with the low power i5. That's a good processor, I would come down to the 4590, save a few dollars, and definitely invest in a GTX 960.

Take the $40 you will save on the processor and kick it towards the GPU will definitely get you in 960 range.


Here is a good build for under $700

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/cBtWTW
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/cBtWTW/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor ($188.95 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock Z97 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($82.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($49.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5&quot; 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($49.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 960 2GB Video Card ($194.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Thermaltake VL80001W2Z ATX Mid Tower Case ($22.99 @ Micro Center)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA GS 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($59.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $649.88

You should be able to salvage the optical drive. Throw in an OS and you will be $700-ISH

 
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I agree with the Turbo guy.
Get a better PSU like Coolermaster v series or EVGA G or even B series.
And also spent less money on the CPU( don't get the i5 4590 as the guy above said get the i5 4460 the difference between the two is about 25€ and no difference in FPS ).
Get one of the following GPU's ( the first one is the best and the last one the worst) GTX 970>AMD R9 280x>GTX 960>AMD R9 280>AMD R9 270X ( keep in mind that if you go with either the AMD R9 280x or 280 you need a 650w PSU ,with eny of the other PSU you are good to with a 550w).
And last but no least you have replace the ram if it is a DDR2 one.
 
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Thoraxe2010

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i mean to put the 960 not 750 and i appreciate the reply really helps me out
 
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The 280x is stronger than the GTX960 for about the same price.


PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor ($188.95 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock H97 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($69.89 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($49.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($49.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 280X 3GB Video Card ($202.98 @ Newegg)
Case: Thermaltake VL80001W2Z ATX Mid Tower Case ($22.99 @ Micro Center)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA GS 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($59.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $644.78
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-06-17 12:43 EDT-0400


$40 more would get you a R9 290
 
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