My coworker was looking to build a pc to play WoW, GTA V, and Skyrim. Essentially he is just looking for the most for his money. He'll probably end up slightly overclocking nothing extreme but this is what he has so far: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3v98H . He said he is willing to change anything as long it will be the most for the money.
If you are asking me - 750k, 1600MHz ram, get rid of the optical drive and get a better GPU... Gaming performance will improve... With the slight OC he can surpass 760k...
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3vKfF
And 2 free games... Bonus with the GPU...
Good build for the money, I like it!
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3vOFo
Here is my version. Majority of the build is the same but I put in an R9 270 instead of the 270X. Don't need to spend all of that money on the 270X 4GB unless he intends to add a lot of taxing mods onto Skyrim or the latter. This is just what I think will do you good.
Thanks for the quick feedback, how about this? I used suggestions from both build.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3vRgT
Looks pretty good.
It looks good but I still recommend getting the regular 270 since you can easily overclock it to the 270X. It'll save you a few dollars as well; but, do what you what you want to do.
Well it's all up to my friend but this has definitely helped narrow everything down by a large margin so thanks a lot for the advice