$650 budget for i5 CPU.

[abpolsci27]

anyone can give me suggestion on building an i5 CPU.
im prefering for mid games.
cpu = i5
vga = 1 or 2 gb?
memory = 4gb
motherboard = ?

help me what is the good brand combination. i reading lots of forums and it made me confuse. thanks

 

[noreaster]

Do you need a whole tower or just the components you listed? or is this for everything (tower, screen, mouse, and keyboard)?
Sticking to the same brands is less important than making sure each component is compatible at the rated speed with the others. For example, you get a motherboard and it only supports 2GB per RAM slot but you bought a 4GB RAM stick so it won't work.

As for the components you asked about:
CPU=i5-2400 $190 USD
VGA=XFX Radeon HD 7750 $120 USD
Memory(RAM)=G.Skill Ripjaws X 4GB (2x2GB) $25 USD
Motherboard=Intel LGA 1155 P67 $175 USD

Total: $510 USD

If you want more explanation or why I picked these parts let me know.

Hope that helped

 

[inzone]

Intel Core i5-3570K Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 77W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 4000 BX80637I53570K
$229.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116504

ASUS P8Z77-V LK LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI BIOS
$149.99 and a $20 rebate makes the final price $129.99/
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131837

CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CML8GX3M2A1600C9B
$44.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233196

EVGA 012-P3-1571-AR GeForce GTX 570 HD w/Display-Port (Fermi) 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
$269.99 and a $20 rebate makes the final price $249.99.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130621

This comes to $654.96 and is just for the parts that you have listed. The four things that you listed are only a portion of what is needed to make a computer , you also need a case , a power supply , a dvd drive and a hard drive and a monitor. So what are you doing for those additional things and are they supposed to be included in the $650 budget?