Help me make a gaming pc 550$

Owen_Grov · Jan 21, 2017

Ok so a lot of pepole tell me to get a New pc and i have a budget of 550 dollars can Some of you make a pc that can play heavy games at least 60fps at 1080p?

CurrentSpecs:

Motherboard: ASUS M5A97

Cpu: AMD FX 4100

Ram: 8 GB Dual Channel DDR3

Gpu: Zotac 670 amp

Cpu: vendatte cpu cooler

Power Supply: Cooler Master 550w

And a 1 tb sata harddrive (7200rmp) with windows 7 proffesinal

velocityg4 · Jan 21, 2017

Reuse your case, hard drive, PSU and Optical drive. You may be able to reuse the CPU cooler as well. If not the stock CPU cooler is fine.

This build should do well at maximizing your performance and the motherboard has decent upgrade potential with USB 3.1 and M.2 NVME support.
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/bkPX3F

This build will have good gaming performance. With a huge boost in everyday usage due to the 256GB SSD. If you set it up as the boot drive. Set the 1TB as a data drive and for games. Just place your most used games on the SSD for quicker load times.
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/B6d9yf

While I chose AMD GPUs. For each build. I just chose AMD as they have the best value in those price brackets. If nVidia had a better offering in that price bracket I would have used them for the builds.

You may need a new Windows 7 license. You could always get a cheap OEM Win 7 Pro key off Kinguin.net. Be sure to buy from a reputable seller if you go this route. Kinguin.net is grey market. As I understand the legalities, although I could be wrong. The keys are legal but the manufacturers have no legal obligation to support or activate them. Which is why Kinguin offers Buyer Protection and why you use a major reseller.

To better optimize storage if you go with the SSD. You can redirect your main user folders to the hard drive. That way you aren't wasting space storing documents, photos, game save data, downloads, desktop items, music and videos on the SSD. You just open the properties of each of those main folders and change the location to like folders you create on your hard drive.

As you are going from AMD to Intel. You will almost certainly have to do a clean install of Windows. You can always try Sysprep. Be prepared to be disappointed or a buggy experience if you do so.

If you are an AMD fan. You can wait until AMD Ryzen is released for your CPU needs.

jmsellars1 · Jan 21, 2017

Personally I'd definitely keep the hard drive, OS and RAM. For a gaming system DDR4 isn't going to make any difference. I'd just add a CPU, mobo, SSD, GPU, PSU and possibly case. You could go for this assuming the case supports ATX PSU and mATX motherboard.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($188.89 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock H110M-DVS/D3 Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($54.00 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance Pro 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (Purchased For $0.00)
Storage: SK hynix SL308 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($67.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $0.00)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 3GB SC GAMING Video Card ($194.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Silverstone PS08B (Black) MicroATX Mid Tower Case (Purchased For $0.00)
Power Supply: Antec EarthWatts Green 380W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($42.89 @ OutletPC)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 OEM 64-bit (Purchased For $0.00)
Total: $548.76
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-01-21 11:57 EST-0500

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