This going to be a Christmas gift for my brothers who's 7 year old e-machine computer recently died and thank god for that because it was the worst machine ever. He's a big gamer at heart but really can't game because of the pile of crap he had to work with, but were hoping to change that. The entire family chipped in and we had a budget of $700 to build a new one for him.
I am by far not an expert and mirrored this build off Tom's Hardware System Builder Marathon, Q3 2013: $650 Gaming PC. I decided to pull the trigger on blackfriday and this what I purchased at new egg.
GPUGIGABYTE GV-N760OC-2GD REV2.0 GeForce GTX 760 2GB
CPUAMD FX-6300 Vishera 3.5GHz (4.1GHz Turbo) Socket A
SSDKingston SSDNow V300 Series SV300S37A/120G 2.5" 12
MOBOMSI 970A-G43 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX A
RAMG.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL8D-8GBXM
PSUCORSAIR CX series CX600 600W ATX12V v2.3 80 PLUS B
CASERosewill CHALLENGER Black Gaming ATX Mid Tower Com
DVD DriveASUS 24X DVD Burner - Bulk 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 12X - OEM
The total amount was $640. Not including rebates which total the amount of $55 and also manged to get a $20 credit from newegg.
I have only built one computer previously and thankfully its still running but I am hoping that all you guys can critique this build and offer suggestion for anything that can be improved. The thing that I really don't know about are the motherboard and ram, if I should get a better one. The MOBO also only has 1 system and 2 fan connects and the case I bought comes with 3 fans.
With $60 remaining from the budget I thinking I should get a better motherboard, but I am not sure.
For cooling I have a hyperplus 212 cooler lying around but have a noctua d14 in my machine that I am thinking of using it in his instead and putting the 212 in mine.
I also have an CORSAIR TX Series CMPSU-650TX 650W and am thinking of putting that in his and using CORSAIR CX series CX600 600W in mine instead.
I also have 2 1.5 tb segate external drives that I have that I was planning to use with the ssd. It just seemed to good to pass up a $70 120g sdd.
The OS I get a copy of windows 7 professional upgrade from my university and plan to do a clean install with that.
Everything is already have been purchased but am willing to purchase new items and returning the rest.
Thanks
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2bsk3
I am by far not an expert and mirrored this build off Tom's Hardware System Builder Marathon, Q3 2013: $650 Gaming PC. I decided to pull the trigger on blackfriday and this what I purchased at new egg.
GPUGIGABYTE GV-N760OC-2GD REV2.0 GeForce GTX 760 2GB
CPUAMD FX-6300 Vishera 3.5GHz (4.1GHz Turbo) Socket A
SSDKingston SSDNow V300 Series SV300S37A/120G 2.5" 12
MOBOMSI 970A-G43 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX A
RAMG.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL8D-8GBXM
PSUCORSAIR CX series CX600 600W ATX12V v2.3 80 PLUS B
CASERosewill CHALLENGER Black Gaming ATX Mid Tower Com
DVD DriveASUS 24X DVD Burner - Bulk 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 12X - OEM
The total amount was $640. Not including rebates which total the amount of $55 and also manged to get a $20 credit from newegg.
I have only built one computer previously and thankfully its still running but I am hoping that all you guys can critique this build and offer suggestion for anything that can be improved. The thing that I really don't know about are the motherboard and ram, if I should get a better one. The MOBO also only has 1 system and 2 fan connects and the case I bought comes with 3 fans.
With $60 remaining from the budget I thinking I should get a better motherboard, but I am not sure.
For cooling I have a hyperplus 212 cooler lying around but have a noctua d14 in my machine that I am thinking of using it in his instead and putting the 212 in mine.
I also have an CORSAIR TX Series CMPSU-650TX 650W and am thinking of putting that in his and using CORSAIR CX series CX600 600W in mine instead.
I also have 2 1.5 tb segate external drives that I have that I was planning to use with the ssd. It just seemed to good to pass up a $70 120g sdd.
The OS I get a copy of windows 7 professional upgrade from my university and plan to do a clean install with that.
Everything is already have been purchased but am willing to purchase new items and returning the rest.
Thanks
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2bsk3