Need Help With My New Budget Gaming PC!

Salo7a · Jun 15, 2015

So I'm not sure if this build is gonna work for upcoming games my main focus for now is The Witcher 3,For the graphics card I can't decide between gtx 750 ti windforce and dual-x r7 265 (yes again) I read a lot about and still can't decide what's best for my build.I'm open for any suggestions.Thanks

Budget: ~450$
Specs:
CPU: Intel i3 4150
Motherboard: ASUS H81M-V3 or Gigabyte GA-H81M-S2PH
HDD: WD Caviar BLUE WD10EZEX 1TB
Ram: HyperX Blu (1x4GB)
VGA: ??
PSU: Not sure

girdwood · Jun 15, 2015

Building completely from scratch or do you have any hardware that can be used?

girdwood · Jun 15, 2015

There is a good article here on this kind of build... it's a little outside your $450, that's why the question about if you have a tower, or hardware at all.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/build-budget-gaming-pc,review-33134.html

pete_101 · Jun 15, 2015

I know you are on a tight budget, but sometimes you are better to wait until you can afford a bit better. Games such as Witcher 3 are made for CPUs with more than 2 cores. Also 4GB ram is too low and will slow things down even more. If you spend your money on the system you are talking about you will be looking to upgrade everything in a short period of time. To avoid that, I suggest you look at a i5 cpu, you don't need the 4690K (although it would be nice). Personally I think the 4590 is best value, and get 8GB ram.

girdwood · Jun 15, 2015

Here's a build I threw together. If you don't need the DVD drive I would recommend ditching it, and the case was just the least expensive on this list.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/JPhjkL

Parts all in all come to $449.92. You might be able to find sales, or bundles that will help with cost.

Unfortunately that build is probably not going to run W3... if you could push around $75 more... This build would be better.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/PM2rBm

Something to note, this site only uses current hardware, sometimes it is better and cheaper to use an older processor and MOBO but that takes shopping around for availability.

Salo7a · Jun 15, 2015

pete_101 :

Witcher 3 works at 30 fps with i3 4150 and a gtx 750ti and 4GB ram here

girdwood :

I have nothing at all
as i said i meant 2x4GB ,and I saw a video with witcher 3 running smoothly on i3-4150 here
the r9 280 is 327$ where I am and new egg doesn't ship here (don't know why this card is very expensive here(
750 ti is 157$
r7 265 is 144$
the monitor has a separate budget of 100$
I can cut 30$-40$ and get a smaller one but not 75$
I will be able to upgrade in 2-3 months and add more ram maybe before but I can't delay the whole pc
I know this is too much ,Thanks

girdwood · Jun 15, 2015

Salo7a :

pete_101 :

Witcher 3 works at 30 fps with i3 4150 and a gtx 750ti and 4GB ram here

girdwood :

I have nothing at all
as i said i meant 2x4GB ,and I saw a video with witcher 3 running smoothly on i3-4150 here
the r9 280 is 327$ where I am and new egg doesn't ship here (don't know why this card is very expensive here(
750 ti is 157$
r7 265 is 144$
the monitor has a separate budget of 100$
I can cut 30$-40$ and get a smaller one but not 75$
I will be able to upgrade in 2-3 months and add more ram maybe before but I can't delay the whole pc
I know this is too much ,Thanks

The 750ti is a good entry, you can find r9 270x online for about the same price and it performs better. I promise you will want the 8 GB of memory. According to GPUBOSS the R7 265 would be the better choice of those two. Good luck.

Salo7a · Jun 15, 2015

girdwood :

Salo7a :

pete_101 :

Witcher 3 works at 30 fps with i3 4150 and a gtx 750ti and 4GB ram here

girdwood :

I have nothing at all
as i said i meant 2x4GB ,and I saw a video with witcher 3 running smoothly on i3-4150 here
the r9 280 is 327$ where I am and new egg doesn't ship here (don't know why this card is very expensive here(
750 ti is 157$
r7 265 is 144$
the monitor has a separate budget of 100$
I can cut 30$-40$ and get a smaller one but not 75$
I will be able to upgrade in 2-3 months and add more ram maybe before but I can't delay the whole pc
I know this is too much ,Thanks

The 750ti is a good entry, you can find r9 270x online for about the same price and it performs better. I promise you will want the 8 GB of memory. According to GPUBOSS the R7 265 would be the better choice of those two. Good luck.

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