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Super Budget Build - Pro's, come help!
Alright so I have some "friends" who said they were "pc builders"... once was supposed to have m a list of parts before Cyber Monday (in hopes to get them on sale), well he's not coming through so I turn to you folks and I hope you can help. I'm not looking for the biggest and the best... below are my needs and wants... all while staying around $4-500 - the cheaper the better, I'm trying to buy a house!
Needs - Every part except RAM, I have 16gigs of DDR3 - only catch is I need 4 RAM slots... - Run GTA:IV and GTA:V along with other FPS Games, none needing to be ran at 110% - Windows 7 CD-Key... I have a system builder disk, not sure if I can make it work cause I have it on my MacBook (DON'T CRINGE PLEASE!) Wants - Tiny in size, a small compact - shuttle pc size would be awesome! - high quality parts, low price! - Good luck right? - Monitor would be nice...nothing crazy big. Thanks in advance, any questions please feel free to ask! |
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Do you absolutely need all 16GB of RAM? If not, you could build an ITX setup that would be tiny--but the catch is, ITX boards only have two RAM slots. Otherwise, you'd have to go uATX--which is still small, just not tiny.
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I've seen some of these mini iTX cases... I'd love to have something that small. |
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Here's what I've thrown together: ![]() You'll still need an LCD, but that's an area where I'm not too qualified. A SSD would be nice, but unfortunately wouldn't fit in the budget
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If you are willing to go mATX I would suggest building around this AMD APU combo (A8-5600K w/Asrock A75 mobo- $155):
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Norton's APU suggestion is solid. You'd have to go with a mATX case, unfortunately, but if you get a small one (such as the Fractal Design Core 1000) it wouldn't be much bigger.
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He linked you to an AMD setup. The APU linked is a piledriver CPU+VLIW5 based GPU. Let me log into the lappy top i'll update with a good build for everyone.
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About $390 w/A8-5600k APU, small mATX case, psu, and Windows 7:
![]() *note- the board I linked to above and in here has 4 memory slots sorry this board only has 2 slots... 4 slot mATX boards are available for a few more $$$
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I also noticed Norton... No video card? Last edited by tecster; Nov 25, 2012 at 06:25 PM. |
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Fractal Design Core 1000
PC Power and Cooling Silencer MK III 500W A10-5800K+GIGABYTE GA-F2A75M-D3H SAMSUNG DVD Burner Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001 2TB HDD SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 6670 1GB XIGMATEK Gaia SD1283 There you go motherboard supports 4 dimm slots, included the video card for hybrid crossfire and a good cooler for overclocking. $459.93 before MIR's, but the parts listed have another $35 worth of MIR available. If you played with a budget some you could stuff an SSD in there for the OS/Games drive.
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Sorry about that, I'm not used to being able to have an integrated graphics system that is powerful enough to support gaming... That must have changed recently? I was brought up on the computer era where onboard is bad bad bad news. Is this upgradable in the future, to put a standalone video card in there?
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It's also possible to put a high-end dGPU not in Crossfire in later on.
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Decent I would buy the $50 6670 while I was ordering the whole thing tho.
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Its one of the cheapestdrives on the egg right now $70 for 2tb is unbeatable. If you don't mind a smaller drive with the harddrive and get a 256GB ssd.
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The one I suggest you use GDDR5 instead of DDR3 witch is a most with dual graphics. |
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How's this compared to the Sapphire? EVGA 01G-P3-N988-TR GeForce 9800 GT HDMI 1GB 256-b...
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Maybe its best to wait until its actually cyber monday... since that's when the price deals will actually be in effect.
the apu build seems solid though... forget the 9800gt. I have an 8800gt and while its a nice card for its time (btw the 9800gt is pretty much the same) it is showing its age. with the apu build you'd have a little more gpu power at less wattage. that 6670 would crossfire with the apu's gpu so you'd still get pretty decent gaming performance and DX11
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