The Cheapest possible PC along with a R9 270X?

[Nabeel Farooqui]

So lets just suppose that I have already bought a Gigabyte R9 270X (probably gonna be gigabyte but it may change, even the damn card may change, but it probably wont, however if it did, the other ones might be the 7870, 7850, R9 270).

Heres what I was thinking to go along with this:

Intel i5 3rd Gen 3330 (MUST BE INTEL)
Kingston or Corsair 1600mhz 2x4GB RAM
500GB or if I can a 1TB seagate or western digital 7200 RPM drive
any cheap Gigabyte orAsrock mobo, H61 B75 etc (i dont really know much about mobos)
Cheap $2-3 case
$60-80 PSU Coolermaster/Corsair

Already have the OS and DVD ROM

Anything left?

 

[animal]

Just an optical drive and OS

 

[Praise_Gaben]

This

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2tQl9

but that mobo is not suitable for overclocking .. so if you want to do that go with a more expensive 970 motherboard.

 

[Nabeel Farooqui]

Not gonna overclock. Needs to be intel, sorry. I need thinning down in the CPU part basically.

 

[Abscent]

You could throw something cheap like this together:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i3-3220 3.3GHz Dual-Core Processor ($117.88 @ J&R)
Motherboard: MSI Z77A-G41 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($54.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Team Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($69.98 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($59.99 @ NCIX US)
Case: Antec One ATX Mid Tower Case ($29.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($19.99 @ Microcenter)
Total: $352.82
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-01-01 15:00 EST-0500)

 

[Nabeel Farooqui]

Hm, an i3? Its a good one, though with this gen using 4 cores, I would like to have 4 physical cores...

 

[Abscent]

Well that was cheapest possible, this is what i would suggest for your build: The new Haswell chip and a good quality board to go with it

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4430 3.0GHz Quad-Core Processor ($179.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85-HD3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($88.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Team Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($69.98 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($59.99 @ NCIX US)
Case: Antec One ATX Mid Tower Case ($29.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($19.99 @ Microcenter)
Total: $448.92
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-01-01 15:33 EST-0500)

 

[Nabeel Farooqui]

That's all great and all, but the CPU, the i3 was of $118 the i5 is of $180, isn't there something in between?