Hey all, hoping I could get a quick yes or no on this build for my girlfriend. She wants to get in on the, for all intents and purposes, basement of PC gaming and I put together a rig for her that came in around $260 without shipping and taxes. I just wanted to know if the power I have in it could run 720p games at low settings. My personal rig is god-like in comparison and can run practically anything, but I'm going for the pure opposite. I opted for an APU build in hopes that it would not require a discrete card for the low-end gaming she plans on doing. Parts list below...
If anyone has any reccomendations I'd love to hear them, please note that I need it to stay under $400 optimally including all shipping and taxes. As such, all peripherals have already been acquired, and as stated above it'll only being playing at 720p.
HEC Vigilance400
- $29.99
MSI FM2-A55M-E33
- $44.99
AMD A4-4000 Richland 3.2GHz
- $45.99
Team Elite 8GB (2 x 4GB)
- $55.99
Western Digital WD Green WD10EZRX
- $74.99
- ~$260 Excluding Taxes and Shipping
Thanks so much in advance and have a great day/night!
I have put together a build list for you with some slight improvements on that machine, i have done 1 8GB stick of RAM so you can upgrade to 16GB in the future if you would like. I also changed your hardrive to a Caviar Blue which is much cheaper but still offers amazing performance. I also went with a different case and PSU
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/19PzR
Thanks Wickedness! I really like the improvements you made although I do have a couple questions. I've never really been an AMD guy, changing quickly with prices lol, but why go with Trinity over Richland? Isn't Richland the Gen 3 of APUs? Also, why do you not recommend the case w/ PSU option?
first if youre not overclocking 3.4 ghz will get you more performance
I couldn't find if the included power supply was 80+ certfied so I went with seperate so you get an 80+ bronze certified power supply, it is also semi-modular so you will have fewer cables to deal with in the build.
That makes perfect sense, sorry for even having to ask lol. The PSU that came with the case was garanteed to not be 80+ certified, but the price was almost to hard to pass up. Thanks for finding that RAM/ Case combo though, that totally makes up for it! The best part is, Amazon had a bundle price for the Mainboard, HDD, and APU which cut the cost even more! After all the rebates are sent in it should come to around $250 :D
Dont get that APU it sucks get the AMD A8-5600K it offers a quad core core cpu and way more gpu cores
Apologies for the super delayed reply and even moreso for reviving this thread, but the A8-5600K just wasn't in the budget. The whole goal was to keep the build under $300 and with Wickedness' help we got it to ~$290...
I'll sell you an A8-3870k if you haven't bought anything yet.