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$500-$600 Budget Gaming Build

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Approximate Purchase Date: This month

Budget Range: 500-600 After Rebates

System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming, surfing the web, movies

Parts Not Required: Keyboard, Mouse, Monitor, Speakers, OS

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: NewEgg, amazon or tiger direct. * Please try to stay to 1 site *

Country: United States

Parts Preferences: What ever gets me the biggest bang for my buck.

Overclocking: Yes / (No) / Maybe

SLI or Crossfire: Yes / No / Maybe: I'm a noob, whats this? Ehh ill google it in a sec

Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080p 32in 1080p HDTV Panasonic Viera

Additional Comments: I'm not too picky on noise, although I wouldnt want it very loud... Same thing goes for bling

One way of dealing with high [ only temporary] hard drive prices might be to get an SSD .
A small[ish] model for a boot drive would let you install windows and some games now , and in a month when things return to normal then you will probably have $50 for a 1 terabyte hard drive

here is a $600 build

i5-2400: $189.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

AS Rock H61M-VS: $59.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

G.Skill 4GB DDR3-1333 10666: $22.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

Hitachi 500 GB HDD + free DVD Burner: $99.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

HIS HD6850 + DIRT3: $149.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

Antec Neo Eco 400W 80+ PSU: $44.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

Rosewill R102 micro-atx mini tower: $29.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

total $597.93

Shipping: $4.99

total: $602.92

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This is pretty close to identical to my current build.
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