~$500 Gaming PC

[ramiraf]

APPROXIMATE PURCHASE DATE: Next month

BUDGET RANGE: 500-600

SYSTEM USAGE FROM MOST TO LEAST IMPORTANT: Gaming, Watching Movies, Surfing the Internet

PARTS NOT REQUIRED: Monitor, OS

PREFERRED WEBSITE(S) FOR PARTS: Newegg

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: US

PARTS PREFERENCES: No

OVERCLOCKING: Maybe

SLI OR CROSSFIRE: No

MONITOR RESOLUTION: 1440x900

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: I want to be able to play MW2, Crysis, Metro 2033, Just Cause 2 etc. on at least medium settings.

What I've got so far:

AMD Athlon II X4 630 Propus 2.8GHz Quad-Core AM3 95W
$100
ASRock M3A770DE: Socket AM3, AMD 770 Chipset, ATX
$60
G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 1333
$95
Radeon HD 4850 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 DirectX 10.1
$110
Western Digital 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive
$70
Sony Optiarc 24X DVD Burner
$20
Antec BP550 Plus 550W Modular
$65
NZXT GAMA-001BK
$30

Total: $550

Any recommendations/comments welcome.

 

[batuchka]

$475AR

 

[ramiraf]

Is the 5770 better than the 4850? Also, is there an advantage of going from a quad-core to a triple-core?

 

[batuchka]

1. Yes
2. For multi threaded apps X4 better, gaming little to no diff ^^ Higher clock/multi always handy hehe

 

[ramiraf]

For a 5770 1GB at $20 more, is it worth it?

 

[batuchka]

If u can afford it fine but for resolution lower than 1920 x 1080 512mb video RAM on GPU works just as well really