$500 Gaming (BF worthy?)

[dowtom]

Approximate Purchase Date: (January 20th)

Budget Range:$500.00 AFTER rebates

System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming, ignoring wife, gaming

Parts Not Required:Keyboard....

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: All

Country: USA

Parts Preferences: by brand or type N.A

Overclocking: Yes

SLI or Crossfire:Maybe

Monitor Resolution: 1024x768

Additional Comments: I want a computer that can handle those games like diablo 3 and BF on good settings, I do not need the best settings.

I have a current setup. How do you feel it ranks? Can i Do better? I'd rather stay away from i3-2100 due to it becoming out of date in the future.

EDIT: Also is the SSD worth it? Should i remove it? If i remove it what should i put the money towards to keep the same balance.. Again i CANNOT surpass $500.00 at all.


Part list permalink: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3tdw
Part price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3tdw/by_merchant

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($114.99 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: ASRock M3A770DE ATX AM3 Motherboard ($59.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: Corsair XMS3 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory ($29.99 @ Newegg)
Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar Blue 250GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($43.98 @ NCIX US)
Hard Drive: Patriot Torqx 2 32GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($44.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 1GB Video Card ($152.55 @ Newegg)
Case: Logisys CS206BK ATX Mid Tower Case w/480W Power Supply ($30.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Mouse: Microsoft SideWinder X3 Wired Laser Mouse ($19.70 @ Compuvest)
Total: $497.18
(Prices include shipping and discounts when available.)
(Generated 2012-01-03 20:24 EST-0500)

 

[Tavo_Nova]

hi first of all we got mostly same reason for building up our pc, gaming, ignoring wife, well i add in autocad but anyways i dont see anything bad with your set up its really good imo, you have both ssd and hdd good gpu and a nice amd so overall things are good and close to your budget, any more like getting a 60gb ssd would make you increase above 500$ but a 60gb ssd is better but it wont really go over your budget just a few more dollar, everything else is good


CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($114.99 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: ASRock M3A770DE ATX AM3 Motherboard ($59.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: Corsair XMS3 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory ($29.99 @ Newegg)
Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar Blue 250GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($43.98 @ NCIX US)
Hard Drive: Patriot Torqx 2 32GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($44.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 1GB Video Card ($152.55 @ Newegg)
Case: Logisys CS206BK ATX Mid Tower Case w/480W Power Supply ($30.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Mouse: Microsoft SideWinder X3 Wired Laser Mouse ($19.70 @ Compuvest)
Total: $497.18

 

[kinggraves]

Did you need to budget for an OS? Monitor?

32GB isnt really great for an install of Win7, i'd cut the SSD completely. Logisys isn't a good brand either, a separate case and better brand PSU would be better. You should consider an aftermarket heatsink for better overclocking. 6870 should be more than enough to run BF3 at high settings on a higher resolution than yours.

 

[dowtom]

No I have the OS and the monitor no problem. So i should drop the SSD and get a better PSU? Should I upgrade more of a GPU or just hang on to my money in that set.

 

[dowtom]

Part list permalink: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3tjf
Part price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3tjf/by_merchant

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($114.99 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: ASRock M3A770DE ATX AM3 Motherboard ($59.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: Corsair XMS3 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory ($29.99 @ Newegg)
Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar Blue 250GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($43.98 @ NCIX US)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 1GB Video Card ($152.55 @ Newegg)
Case: Gigabyte GZ-KF03B ATX Mid Tower Case ($24.98 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Thermaltake 500W ATX12V Power Supply ($38.39 @ Microcenter)
Mouse: Microsoft SideWinder X3 Wired Laser Mouse ($19.70 @ Compuvest)
Total: $484.57
(Prices include shipping and discounts when available.)
(Generated 2012-01-03 21:53 EST-0500)



I have changed the case and added a thermaltake 500w PSU

 

[andrewcarr]

thermaltake PSU's are not good, this is a much better buy.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341016 or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139028

 

[aznshinobi]

Here's a suggestion:

AMD 955 $115
http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=47459&vpn=HDZ955FBGMBOX&manufacture=AMD&promoid=1368
Asrock Extreme3 870 $80
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157272
Patriot 8GB DDR3 1600 $36
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220570
WD 250GB $44
http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=59705&vpn=WD2500AAKX&manufacture=Western%20Digital%20WD
Sapphire 6870 $165 ($20 Rebate)
http://www.amazon.com/SAPPHIRE-Radeon-6870-GDDR5-Graphics/dp/B005C8RTTU%3FSubscriptionId%3D19BAZMZQFZJ6G2QYGCG2%26tag%3Dsquid1240995-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB005C8RTTU
NZXT Gamma $40
http://www.amazon.com/GAMMA-Classic-Interior-Chassis-Black/dp/B002UDK9U6%3FSubscriptionId%3D19BAZMZQFZJ6G2QYGCG2%26tag%3Dsquid1240995-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB002UDK9U6
Corsair CX430 $45 ($10 Rebate)
http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-430-Watt-Certified-Compatible-Platforms/dp/B004W2T2TM%3FSubscriptionId%3D19BAZMZQFZJ6G2QYGCG2%26tag%3Dsquid1240995-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB004W2T2TM
Total: $525 before rebates.

I make this suggestion mainly because you'd get a better PSU (CX430 V2) and a better motherboard that will allow you to run 8x/8x Crossfire in the future if you so choose to do, which I do suggest having the option to do so. Plus you get a nicer case IMO.

 

[dowtom]

Thanks for the replies. I will definally look into a new PSU