First time building a "budget" gaming PC.

majadito

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Hello everyone, well my idea was to build a nice pc for gaming, blue-ray and music, but what I most want is nice perfomance at gaming. So, if you have some opinions, advices, critics, build changes that can help with what I want to achieve, they're welcome :).

Monitor: I'm going to use a 23 or 24 inch monitor at 1080p.

Don't include monitor,keyboard,mouse or speakers on the budget.

Country: I'm going to buy all the stuff in the US. Then I'm going to take all back with me to my home country, Bolivia :D ... :sweat: (this is goin to be fun :na: )

Approximate Purchase Date: 1 Month

Budget range: from 800 to 1100 max

Overclock: -----> NO <-----

Crossfire: -----> NO <-----

Brands that I like: intel, gigabyte, corsair, antec, seasonic, silverstone, nvidia, asus, kingston.

Games I'm going to play titles like: BF3, GTA IV, Dirt 3, NFS The Run, Assassins Creed. And maybe some flight simulator for my old man.

So this is the build I was thinking of:

1.- SAMSUNG 830 Series 64gb for SO and small programs = 100$ (newegg)

2.- Seagate Barracuda 500gb for storage = 70$ (us.ncix.com)

3.- CPU Intel Core i5 3550 = 210$ (us.ncix.com)

4.- Motherboard Gigabyte H77M-D3H 89$ (us.ncix.com)

5.- Memory Corsair Vengance Low Profile "BLUE" DDR3-1600 53$ (us.ncix.com)

6.- Blueray Drive Asus BC-12B1ST 57$ (us.ncix.com)

7.- Case. I'll buy this thing in back in my country :na:

8.- GPU Gigabyte Radeon HD 7850 OC 975MHZ 2GB 280$ (us.ncix.com)

9.- I think the Seasonic S12II 520W(80$ at us.ncix) can handle radeon 7870 or GTX670? If I'm not right please tell my so I go for the 620w(89$ at us.ncix), or if you have some other idea for PSU I listen.

10.- And for my music and blueray video:

Asus Xonar DX = 72$ at newegg



Shoot... :D
 

majadito

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I was thinking... Should I go for a mATX MB ?

I'm only using this:

1 GPU

1 SDD

1 HDD

1 Blueray/dvd/cd drive

I mean... I can save a few bucks in the MB and go a little bit higher on a gpu...


I have this two other options in mATX MB:


http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=70268&vpn=GA-H77M-D3H&manufacture=Gigabyte


http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=70266&vpn=GA-Z77M-D3H&manufacture=Gigabyte&promoid=1114

I mean what the hell is the difference between this two of course of the price... I can go for the one with the price of 89$ and take the radeon 7870, what you say?


EDIT: What the hell I'm going for the one of 89$. Has all I'm going to need-use. And I'll take the radeon 7870 or the gtx 670 :)
 

majadito

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Actually that is good info for the guy who is seeking to play that game with very nice quality... :D (not me)