Alright so heres the situation. My cousin works at Intel and my aunt works for Nvidia. I asked them if they can get me discounts on some of their products. My cousin replied to me saying he can get me a new i7 2600k Sandy Bridge for $159 and my aunt said she'll just buy me a Nvidia GTX 260 2GB for my birthday. Everything else I need to buy myself except a copy of Windows 7 I got from my friend. My cousin who works at Intel told me "a good motherboard will be about $250 and that leaves you about $200 for a case and memory which should be enough." Except he didn't recommend any motherboards, memory, case and I can't get in touch with him for probably two weeks. So I need some help on choosing power suppy, motherboard, case, hard drive(preferably 500gb at least maybe 1tb) and everything else. I'd do it myself but I'm new into the computer building scene and I don't know much about it. Any tips or suggestions will help out a lot! I have around $450 right now. Don't forget I don't need to pay for graphics card and already paid for processor!
edit- Will my processor and graphics card be able to handle Starcraft 2, Black Ops, and Battlefield Bad Company 2 at least on medium-high settings without any choppy framerates? My monitor is 1920x1080
Thanks!
edit- Will my processor and graphics card be able to handle Starcraft 2, Black Ops, and Battlefield Bad Company 2 at least on medium-high settings without any choppy framerates? My monitor is 1920x1080
Thanks!