Gaming PC for 300-400 dollars

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Justajojo

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Decided to sell my iPad and make my first desktop I'm somewhere in the 300-400 price range. The things I mainly want to do is mainly gaming of course and watching movies, surfing the web. I have a monitory,keyboard,mouse, hdmi cable. I will need a OS (side question,why is OS never in the price of the builds I've seen on the forum?) again thank you all if you could please help me out with the latest still an the best stuff I can get within my price range :)
 
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dmort

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So, I think you'll have better luck if you give some info about what you want to play and the settings on which you want to play it. A 300-400 dollar machine isn't going to be able to play much on max settings - probably nothing current. But maybe you don't care much about that.

Then, I wouldn't build it. I think that unless you buy used parts, at that price point, you are going to have better luck buying from something like cyberpowerpc or the like. That way, you can take advantage of their volume pricing and any deals they have running.

I was just speccing out their cheapest model - based on an i3 and I got it specced out at $550 with an nvidia 750ti and a 400w evga power supply. I stepped down the mobo and I skipped the optical drive. I'm no master builder, but it strikes me that it would take a master builder to build a computer that can actually play recent games, on low to medium settings, for around 300-400 dollars.

Good luck!
 
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That's tough, but this is a possible step in the right direction. There are a possible future upgrade options too.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor ($64.99 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: ASRock H97M Anniversary Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($51.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Mushkin Silverline 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($21.89 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($46.89 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB WINDFORCE Video Card ($109.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Raidmax ATX-249B (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($19.00 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Antec Green 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($39.99 @ Directron)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-14 DVD/CD Writer ($12.99 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 OEM (64-bit) ($86.89 @ OutletPC)
Total: $454.61
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-04 19:35 EDT-0400
 
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