6/12/2023 0 Comments Budget gaming pc![]() It finally seems the HDD prices are settling down, nearly two years after the initial factory flooding incident. It's rare to find such a solid PSU will all the extras (and modularity) in this price range, and given its high efficiency (80%+) under a typical load, it's one of the best budget PC power supplies available right now. We found a sweet deal on a modular OCZ ModXStream 600W PSU for a cool sixty bucks. It's important to grab a PSU parallel in quality to the rest of your components if there's one component we consistently advise builders not to cut corners on, it's the power supply. OC Genie II seals it all by offering novice overclockers a streamlined OC pipeline for powering up the CPU and RAM. ![]() For less than $75, the board's a great deal. You also get USB 3.0 and SATA III (6Gb/s), giving us yet more room for an SSD upgrade. The board is AM3+ equipped for those awaiting Steamroller (or looking to upgrade to Piledriver), giving plenty of room to upgrade to future AMD gaming chips. MSI makes quality motherboards with solid heatpiping design and easy OC features, and this 970 chipset MSI-970A-G46 board is at a great price. This time we decided to take a break from the typical ASRock selections and give MSI a chance. You get 8GB of quality memory-that should be more than enough for your basic gaming needs. This build uses 8GB of Corsair's XMS memory, clocked natively at 1333MHz and easily overclocked to 1600MHz or higher this cuts down on your initial investment and gives you the tools needed to OC the RAM (and CPU) to match the speeds of much more costly parts. At $40, this aftermarket liquid cooler will enable us to OC the CPU to match (and exceed) the native clockspeeds of the FX-4100 and FX-4300. Keep in mind this OEM product does not include a heatsink or thermal compound, but factory stock heatsinks aren't the best anyway, so we decided to couple this with the great deal we found on Corsair's H70 liquid cooler. The Phenom II X4 965 (OEM) is a quad-core chip sans integrated graphics, meaning more space dedicated to the cores and their functions although the chip is a few generations old (pre-Piledriver), it performs nearly identically to the 4100 (or better, in some games) and has an architecture that we believe is better for the price.Īt only $75, it's hands-down the best processor available for gaming - and because games rely most heavily on the GPU, this gives us more money to spend on the GPU. We went the AMD-route for this build and opted for their best budget gaming CPU: the Phenom II X4 965. Considering this card was in the range of $250 or $300 when it first launched, $150 is an amazing price. The card also includes DVI and HDMI outputs, also fairly standard. The 7850 has a (now standard) 256-bit wide memory interface and 1GB of GDDR5 memory operating on an effective 4800MHz memory clock, making for enough bandwidth to run GPU-memory-intensive games smoothly. ![]() This baby comes with the newest generation architecture to allow much better gaming than the previous HD 6XXX cards and, in terms of cost-to-performance, competes closely with nVidia's GTX 660. Running on AMD's Pitcairn architecture (pictured below), this GPU has proven more than capable of handling most of the games out there at high settings with a smooth FPS. This time around we decided to go with XFX's HD 7850, giving us the best performance at this budget. $577 Custom Gaming PC Build - January, 2013 Gaming Parts List
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