A good PC build under $600

Bryant White

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Hello,
I am currently searching for a good build that I am going to make for a friend. He has a budget of $600 and wants to play games like, League of Legends, Age of Mythology, Minecraft, and a couple other light games. I know these are really light games and do not need much to run so a build under $600 is fine. He just has a limit of $600. I know a fair amount about what parts to get but I wouldn't want to cheap out on a bad case, power supply, or things like that. I am expecting that he will grow into most intensive games as he plays so if the build could be easily up gradable (4 rather than 2 ram slots, etc...). Finally, I am going to put the OS price in this build so it is really a $500 build unless there is a free windows download somewhere. I have always bought the cd disk of windows from pcparpicker so I am new to the "Free Windows" downloads and the thumb drive way of installing windows. If someone could shed some light on whether or not I should include a OS or get a free download and how to do it. That would be helpful.
Thanks
 
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Well I don't know about the free download and something like that may not be legal and may also not be allowed on the forums. However a person can use Windows 10 without having a serial key. The most it can do to annoy you is the little "windows is not activated" sign.
In that case, here's a 600$ build that may suit his needs:


PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6400 2.7GHz Quad-Core Processor ($170.33 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock H110M-HDS Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($44.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory ($52.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5"...
Well I don't know about the free download and something like that may not be legal and may also not be allowed on the forums. However a person can use Windows 10 without having a serial key. The most it can do to annoy you is the little "windows is not activated" sign.
In that case, here's a 600$ build that may suit his needs:


PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6400 2.7GHz Quad-Core Processor ($170.33 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock H110M-HDS Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($44.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory ($52.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($49.33 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: XFX Radeon RX 480 8GB XXX OC Video Card ($209.99 @ Newegg)
Case: BitFenix Nova ATX Mid Tower Case ($33.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: Rosewill 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($65.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $627.60
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-03-26 17:14 EDT-0400
 
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