First, I'd like to say hello to the community. I've spent dozens of hours researching hardware from scratch, and many of those were spent here.
To put things in perspective, for the last few years I've had to deal with a laptop which scores about 30 fps in CS 1.6 on lowest resolution and shuts down from overheating.
What I would love to know is if there is a better alternative to following gaming build in the same price range; or even if I could cut costs somewhere without any loss in quality. Keep in mind that a threshold which would please me would be playing any game with at least 50-60 FPS on medium settings and 720p res.
Also, please consider that from my point of view I've already crossed the maximum budget for about 100$, but don't wanna settle for short-lived hardware, so I'm trying to fight it out.
The build:
CPU /// AMD AM3+ FX-6300;
Motherboard /// Gigabyte 970A-UD3P, socket AM3+;
PSU /// 620W ANTEC High Current Gamer HCG-620 EC;
RAM /// 1 x 4 GB, CORSAIR CMZ4GX3M1A1600C9 Vengeance, DDR3 1600MHz;
GPU /// GIGABYTE AMD Radeon R7 260X, 2GB GDDR5
HDD /// 1000.0 GB WESTERN DIGITAL Blue, WD10EZEX, SATA3, 64MB cache, 7200 rpm;
Case /// Corsair CC-9011051-WW Carbide Series SPEC-02 Mid Tower Black, Red LED
Price: ~625$ (790$ is average monthly pay, mine is less than half of that; so, 2 months of work)
p.s. I would need a new monitor in the future too. Couldn't find any low-end that have a recommendation, so I thought about buying 88$ Asus VS197DE LED 18,5'', 16:9, 1366x768, 200 cd/m2, DC 50.000.000:1, 5 ms, D-Sub
To put things in perspective, for the last few years I've had to deal with a laptop which scores about 30 fps in CS 1.6 on lowest resolution and shuts down from overheating.
What I would love to know is if there is a better alternative to following gaming build in the same price range; or even if I could cut costs somewhere without any loss in quality. Keep in mind that a threshold which would please me would be playing any game with at least 50-60 FPS on medium settings and 720p res.
Also, please consider that from my point of view I've already crossed the maximum budget for about 100$, but don't wanna settle for short-lived hardware, so I'm trying to fight it out.
The build:
CPU /// AMD AM3+ FX-6300;
Motherboard /// Gigabyte 970A-UD3P, socket AM3+;
PSU /// 620W ANTEC High Current Gamer HCG-620 EC;
RAM /// 1 x 4 GB, CORSAIR CMZ4GX3M1A1600C9 Vengeance, DDR3 1600MHz;
GPU /// GIGABYTE AMD Radeon R7 260X, 2GB GDDR5
HDD /// 1000.0 GB WESTERN DIGITAL Blue, WD10EZEX, SATA3, 64MB cache, 7200 rpm;
Case /// Corsair CC-9011051-WW Carbide Series SPEC-02 Mid Tower Black, Red LED
Price: ~625$ (790$ is average monthly pay, mine is less than half of that; so, 2 months of work)
p.s. I would need a new monitor in the future too. Couldn't find any low-end that have a recommendation, so I thought about buying 88$ Asus VS197DE LED 18,5'', 16:9, 1366x768, 200 cd/m2, DC 50.000.000:1, 5 ms, D-Sub
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