Alright, so I plan on building me a pc based on the AMD Athlon II X4 640 3.0Ghz CPU. This is what I have:
CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103871
GPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125410
PSU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817171060
RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231426
HDD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136769
DVD Burner: Liteon, 18 dollar on. Not worth posting a link.
Mo/Bo: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130679
Case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119233
Nice, if you are open to suggestions i think a gtx 650 would be a bit better for a few dollers more and it is defenetly worth geting a wd black 500gb over the 500gb blue from my experience.
Well, pushing the budget by a few extra dollars, here is how you can get significantly better performance:
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/TxkZ
CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1045T 2.7GHz 6-Core Processor ($89.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: MSI 970A-G46 ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($77.88 @ Amazon)
Memory: G.Skill NS Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory ($58.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($57.59 @ Amazon)
Video Card: HIS Radeon HD 7850 1GB Video Card ($154.70 @ Newegg)
Case: Gigabyte GZ-P5HB5C (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($30.98 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 500W 80 PLUS Certified ATX12V Power Supply ($44.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $515.12
Oh lord, not the Anthlon. It's a very bad CPU. Mind if I recommend a different CPU?
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Txmz
Here's a nice, $500 build, which you can play most games on high at solid FPS rates. You can overclock the CPU and GPU quite a bit. It shouldn't be a problem to get the CPU to 4.2GHz or over.
You do realize the Athlons are basically Phenom II's stripped of L3 cache, right? They can retain 90-95% of the equivalent Phenom II. If you're going say Athlons are terrible and then recommend another CPU based on the same core, you probably shouldn't be recommending hardware.
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xD
most games dont use 6 cores yet
per core, the 965 is most powerful than the 1045t
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/TxBP
How about this build?
Thay dont at the moment but thats all going to chage very soon + the 6 core at the moment is cheaper
Just run the 6 core in turbo mode (3.2Ghz) a no brainer realy if it was more expencive then i'd grab the 4 core