New gaming pc for me and my kids

Randy Bell

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Mar 11, 2013
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Hi everyone

I am looking to build a new system for gaming pc would like to keep it at about 650-700 at most. As i neef 3 of them I would like to beable to run starcraft 2 ,civ 5 ,and battlefield without much lag. Plus leave lots of room for up grading.
 
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You can put i7s and big graphics cards into these if you want, and they don't have any problems running the games you mentioned:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: *Intel Core i3-4160 3.6GHz Dual-Core Processor ($101.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: *ASRock H97M Anniversary Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($60.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: *Crucial Ballistix Sport 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($20.00 @ Amazon)
Storage: *Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($47.66 @ SuperBiiz)
Video Card: *Zotac GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Video Card ($89.10 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: *Cougar Spike MicroATX Mini Tower...
You can put i7s and big graphics cards into these if you want, and they don't have any problems running the games you mentioned:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: *Intel Core i3-4160 3.6GHz Dual-Core Processor ($101.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: *ASRock H97M Anniversary Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($60.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: *Crucial Ballistix Sport 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($20.00 @ Amazon)
Storage: *Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($47.66 @ SuperBiiz)
Video Card: *Zotac GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Video Card ($89.10 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: *Cougar Spike MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($30.60 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: *EVGA 430W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply ($31.50 @ SuperBiiz)
Optical Drive: *Lite-On iHDS118-04 DVD/CD Drive ($12.33 @ SuperBiiz)
Operating System: *Microsoft Windows 8.1 OEM (64-bit) ($86.40 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $480.56
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-28 02:18 EDT-0400

You could make Mini-ITX ones as well for only a slight price bump. So they take up less space.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: *Intel Core i3-4160 3.6GHz Dual-Core Processor ($101.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: *ASRock H97M-ITX/AC Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard ($74.70 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: *Crucial Ballistix Sport 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($20.00 @ Amazon)
Storage: *Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($47.66 @ SuperBiiz)
Video Card: *Zotac GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Video Card ($89.10 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Cooler Master Elite 110 Mini ITX Tower Case ($35.10 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: *EVGA 430W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply ($31.50 @ SuperBiiz)
Operating System: *Microsoft Windows 8.1 OEM (64-bit) ($86.40 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $486.45
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-28 02:20 EDT-0400
 
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