Gaming PC for Around $800.00 Please Advise

Jano89

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May 17, 2012
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10,510
Approximate Purchase Date: Probably within the next week.

Budget Range: $800.00 +/-

System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming and everyday use.

Parts Not Required: Keyboard, Mouse, Monitor (Using 32” LCD TV), Optical Drive (Reusing a very old one), Hard Drive (Using an old one again 500GB)

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Lowest Price possible, I am located in Canada.

Country: Calgary, AB, Canada

Parts Preferences: Looking for a case which has good air flow but is relatively compact and preferably lies horizontally.

Overclocking: Maybe

SLI or Crossfire: No

Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080 (LCD TV)

Additional Comments: Below are my choices so far, might need to tweak something to stay within budget, also need anything else I’m essentially missing (which is quite a few things). Also need an OS so that’s $100 bucks right there.

Intel Core i5-3570K Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 77W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 4000

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116504&Tpk=i5-3570K

ASRock Z77 Extreme4 LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157293

SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 7850 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102986

Mushkin Enhanced Chronos MKNSSDCR60GB 2.5" 60GB SATA III Asynchronous MLC Internal Solid State Drive

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226247

Mushkin Enhanced Essentials 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226249

Thanks in advance,

Jan
 

Jano89

Honorable
May 17, 2012
2
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10,510
Bump, I realize it might be pretty tight to get it under my budget. My thoughts are to get the best CPU and GPU I can currently afford and over time add on to the computer. I would appreciate any advice. Thanks
 
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