Hey Everyone i have been considering selling my old rig which has been very outdated and runs almost nothing anymore and i want to build a new one. I have probably 800- possibly 900 dollars that i am willing to spend, Can everyone help me by giving me some builds and can you include the OS, and keyboard?
New PC build for $800-900
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C4C
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I put together what I think is my $900 dream build for an AMD system...
You can always take off that extra case fan and scavenge 1333Mhz ram to save money: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/30bem
You can always take off that extra case fan and scavenge 1333Mhz ram to save money: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/30bem
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Looks OK but a 'dream' AMD build would have a 990FX motherboard and probably something a bit more powerful than a GTX 760. I appreciate the OS eats into the budget a bit, but maybe if you got the CX600M instead of the CX750M you could afford the Gigabyte GA-990FAX-UD3 board. Don't need to worry about an aftermarket cooler right away either, so could also drop that and put it towards a nicer motherboard or higher-end GPU.
Personally would keep with AMD 970. I don't see many ppl actually dual GPU.
Video card - probably go with R9 270X instead...
RAM - Would probably choose slighly faster RAM
PSU - 600W
Case - Corsair 300R or Fractal Design Define R4?
Jiniix
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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks
CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor ($119.99 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($29.98 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($99.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Kingston Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($69.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($65.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($64.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: Asus Radeon R9 270X 2GB Video Card ($223.99 @ Staples)
Case: NZXT Source 220 ATX Mid Tower Case ($44.99 @ TigerDirect)
Case Fan: Cooler Master SickleFlow 69.7 CFM 120mm Fan ($2.99 @ Newegg)
Case Fan: Cooler Master SickleFlow 69.7 CFM 120mm Fan ($2.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 500W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($34.99 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: Asus DVD-E818AAT/BLK/B/GEN DVD/CD Drive ($18.98 @ OutletPC)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($84.98 @ OutletPC)
Total: $854.83
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-02-26 04:55 EST-0500)
If you can take advantage of all the different deals and stuff, this will be a baller system and leave you $45 for a keyboard and stay at $900.
And it will be fully Mantle-compatible, if you play any EA games. They are pushing Mantle on many titles to come, and with the 14.2 beta drivers from AMD it's not so bad any more. And there's only room to grow.
And hopefully other game devs will start using Mantle as well
I have a few friends that would break down crying if they had to manage an SSD and an HDD, and if that may apply to you, I would suggest the Seagate SSHD. It's a very good middle-ground between SSD and HDD. It costs around $80-90 I think.
CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor ($119.99 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($29.98 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($99.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Kingston Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($69.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($65.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($64.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: Asus Radeon R9 270X 2GB Video Card ($223.99 @ Staples)
Case: NZXT Source 220 ATX Mid Tower Case ($44.99 @ TigerDirect)
Case Fan: Cooler Master SickleFlow 69.7 CFM 120mm Fan ($2.99 @ Newegg)
Case Fan: Cooler Master SickleFlow 69.7 CFM 120mm Fan ($2.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 500W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($34.99 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: Asus DVD-E818AAT/BLK/B/GEN DVD/CD Drive ($18.98 @ OutletPC)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($84.98 @ OutletPC)
Total: $854.83
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-02-26 04:55 EST-0500)
If you can take advantage of all the different deals and stuff, this will be a baller system and leave you $45 for a keyboard and stay at $900.
And it will be fully Mantle-compatible, if you play any EA games. They are pushing Mantle on many titles to come, and with the 14.2 beta drivers from AMD it's not so bad any more. And there's only room to grow.
And hopefully other game devs will start using Mantle as well
I have a few friends that would break down crying if they had to manage an SSD and an HDD, and if that may apply to you, I would suggest the Seagate SSHD. It's a very good middle-ground between SSD and HDD. It costs around $80-90 I think.
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C4C
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I had that in there at first but had no idea on how to rework the build to reallocate money (was thinking long term with the 750w). And yes, that OS does eat into the budget..
~ If it's a build that you aren't planning to upgrade in the future, get the lower wattage PSU, don't overclock and get a better mobo/GPU
Drop the aftermarket cooler and the 750W PSU and you might be able to afford it. You can get by fine with a 600W PSU (especially if you're only ever going to run one graphics card) and an aftermarket cooler can be purchased and fitted later if he decides he wants to overclock, or is not satisfied with the stock cooler.