Due to a 1 tb HD that came with the current desktop dieing today which is a Dell Inspirion 560s that I bought back in 2009, I have decided now is the time to invest in building a gaming pc as opposed to going out and buying another $700 stock pc that won't be upgradeable down the road etc. Plus it does not help the fact that the graphics card it came with burned out last year along with the power supply so I went and spent $150.00 on it already. As such I am looking to spend around $350.00.
Currently I have the following:
1) Already have a 23 inch monitor so that solves that problem in terms of gettng a new monitor
2) I have an DVD/blueray burner so that takes care of having to buy that.
3) I have 6 gb of ram that came with the dell so perhaps I could use those on the new system depending if there are enough slots.
4) Harddrive I think is dead however perhaps formating it could work.as a place to store only games and perhaps getting an ssd for the os. Here's a link to an ssd I saw on sale currently:
http://www.amazon.ca/Patriot-Memory-Solid-Drives-PP60GS25SSDR/dp/B005DSPIR4
or perhaps I should get another 1 tb or go with a 500 gb one as thier kind of cheap now I think.
5) the graphics card in the machine currenlty is a Geforce GT 430 its currently setup in low profile but I can turn it back into a standard graphics card pretty easily if it would be more sense to just keep it rather then getting a new one altogether.
6) I don't have an os currently so ill have to go and buy that as well.
In terms of games I play the following:
Any game between the year's 2003 to around lets say 2010-13
In terms of games there would be: Eve online, GTA SA, Heroes of Newerth, Saints row 3, 4, skyrim etc
Anyway if anyone can help me build something that will work a bit better then what I have now that would be great as I feel what I have now is not very good given its age.