Build me a gaming pc for $500 or less. Please

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#1 hkhatir
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I already have an OS

want to play mainly tf2, sc2, and civ v on semi high to max

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#2 C_Rule
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Please?
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#3 Daytona_178
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Please?C_Rule
My thoughts exactly.
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#4 Tyson8earzz
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NO

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#5 TROD_BING
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Bake me a cake for $100 or more and you got a deal!

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#6 angrules23
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Umm no ask nicely. Is it so hard to type please? that one word makes all the difference
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#7 Bangerman15
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didnt know u owned us all here giving us orders LOL
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#8 emperorzhang66
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No. Sayplease.
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Affirmative, sir!
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#10 hkhatir
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No. Sayplease.emperorzhang66

Sorry, I must have forgotten my manners.

How foolish of me, won't happen again.

Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee help me build a gaming pc. I would very much appreciarte anybodys input on this matter.

:D

Thank You:)

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#11 hkhatir
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didnt know u owned us all here giving us orders LOLBangerman15

Wasn't trying to be an **** or anything just a simple mistake. I'm usuallly more polite.

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What resolution is your monitor?

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What do you need? Mobo, case, cpu, gpu, psu, optical drives? Any compatible harddrives and optical drives etc. that you can use will help reduce the cost and get better parts :) and what have you got? Monitor, m/kb? This will help everyone to help you :P
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#14 hkhatir
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What do you need? Mobo, case, cpu, gpu, psu, optical drives? Any compatible harddrives and optical drives etc. that you can use will help reduce the cost and get better parts :) and what have you got? Monitor, m/kb? This will help everyone to help you :Pemperorzhang66

I need everything except a monitor, keyboard, O.S., and mouse.

My monitor is a 1080p lg.

Thanks

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[QUOTE="emperorzhang66"]What do you need? Mobo, case, cpu, gpu, psu, optical drives? Any compatible harddrives and optical drives etc. that you can use will help reduce the cost and get better parts :) and what have you got? Monitor, m/kb? This will help everyone to help you :Phkhatir

I need everything except a monitor, keyboard, O.S., and mouse.

My monitor is a 1080p lg.

Thanks

I dont wanna sound rude but i'll do it anyway!

There/we are dussins of guy's/girls on this board who can make you a fine build within just about anything that comes to custom build PC's, but if you don't even have the manner and/or the intrest in wrtiting a few single words in the/your topic where people are "willingly" spending many good minutes to help YOU i dont think your worth it at all!

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[QUOTE="emperorzhang66"]What do you need? Mobo, case, cpu, gpu, psu, optical drives? Any compatible harddrives and optical drives etc. that you can use will help reduce the cost and get better parts :) and what have you got? Monitor, m/kb? This will help everyone to help you :Phkhatir

I need everything except a monitor, keyboard, O.S., and mouse.

My monitor is a 1080p lg.

Thanks

Either athlon x4 or a dual core cpu is what your looking for. If you can make it $600, that would be better, but will see what i can do. I'm sure hartsickdiscipl will have a good built now that you've asked nicely :) Usually does.
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#17 hkhatir
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[QUOTE="hkhatir"]

[QUOTE="emperorzhang66"]What do you need? Mobo, case, cpu, gpu, psu, optical drives? Any compatible harddrives and optical drives etc. that you can use will help reduce the cost and get better parts :) and what have you got? Monitor, m/kb? This will help everyone to help you :Pswehunt

I need everything except a monitor, keyboard, O.S., and mouse.

My monitor is a 1080p lg.

Thanks

I dont wanna sound rude but i'll do it anyway!

There/we are dussins of guy's/girls on this board who can make you a fine build within just about anything that comes to custom build PC's, but if you don't even have the manner and/or the intrest in wrtiting a few single words in the/your topic where people are "willingly" spending many good minutes to help YOU i dont think your worth it at all!

What are you talking about??

Please dont respond to this thread again. I said please any explained myself so get out of here.

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#18 hkhatir
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[QUOTE="hkhatir"]

[QUOTE="emperorzhang66"]What do you need? Mobo, case, cpu, gpu, psu, optical drives? Any compatible harddrives and optical drives etc. that you can use will help reduce the cost and get better parts :) and what have you got? Monitor, m/kb? This will help everyone to help you :Pemperorzhang66

I need everything except a monitor, keyboard, O.S., and mouse.

My monitor is a 1080p lg.

Thanks

Either athlon x4 or a dual core cpu is what your looking for. If you can make it $600, that would be better, but will see what i can do. I'm sure hartsickdiscipl will have a good built now that you've asked nicely :) Usually does.

ok thanks. is it even worth it to go quad-core though. i've heard that no games utilize all 4 cores.

I dont mind going up to $600 if there's gonna be a noticeable performance difference.

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Quad cores are very very common now. I would suggest it if your budget allows. I think most dual cores will bottleneck higher-end GPUs unless you overclock them.
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#20 hkhatir
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Quad cores are very very common now. I would suggest it if your budget allows. I think most dual cores will bottleneck higher-end GPUs unless you overclock them.deathxxshark

would the gtx 460 be considered higher end??

ik thinking of eventually sli'ing them?

thanks for your help btw

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You could probably get away with using one gtx 460 with a decent dual core CPU (by decent I mean any dual core from the i5 series. maybe the i3 series will do also..), but with SLI'd 460s you will most likely need a stronger CPU to avoid any bottlenecking.
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#22 hartsickdiscipl
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I can make a decent build for $500 or less, but I can make one that's significantly better for $520-$530. Is that ok?

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Here is one build. I would have preferred to put a GTX 460 1GB or an AMD 6850 in this build instead of the 465, but I was trying to keep it as close to $500 as possible. As it stands, this machine will eat up the games you want to play and most others.

$509.92 is the total before mail-in rebates. The PSU has a $15 MIR.

AMD Athlon II X4 640 Propus 3.0GHz Socket AM3 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor ADX640WFGMBOX

Mushkin Enhanced Essentials 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model ...

Antec NEO ECO 520C 520W Continuous Power ATX12V v2.3 / EPS12V 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Power Supply

Galaxy 60XGH3HS3CUD GeForce GTX 465 (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit DDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

MSI 870-G45 AM3 AMD 770 ATX AMD Motherboard

HITACHI HDS721050CLA362 (0F10381) 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

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#24 hkhatir
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Here is one build. I would have preferred to put a GTX 460 1GB or an AMD 6850 in this build instead of the 465, but I was trying to keep it as close to $500 as possible. As it stands, this machine will eat up the games you want to play and most others.

$509.92 is the total before mail-in rebates. The PSU has a $15 MIR.

hartsickdiscipl

thanks a lot for your help

i really appreciate it

i think im gonna go with this build, will order sometime in the next few weeks

cant wait to game on it

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[QUOTE="hartsickdiscipl"]

Here is one build. I would have preferred to put a GTX 460 1GB or an AMD 6850 in this build instead of the 465, but I was trying to keep it as close to $500 as possible. As it stands, this machine will eat up the games you want to play and most others.

$509.92 is the total before mail-in rebates. The PSU has a $15 MIR.

hkhatir

thanks a lot for your help

i really appreciate it

i think im gonna go with this build, will order sometime in the next few weeks

cant wait to game on it

Screw that 465! I'll sell both of my 275's for .. $225, shipped. :]
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[QUOTE="hkhatir"]

[QUOTE="hartsickdiscipl"]

Here is one build. I would have preferred to put a GTX 460 1GB or an AMD 6850 in this build instead of the 465, but I was trying to keep it as close to $500 as possible. As it stands, this machine will eat up the games you want to play and most others.

$509.92 is the total before mail-in rebates. The PSU has a $15 MIR.

ATLReppa770

thanks a lot for your help

i really appreciate it

i think im gonna go with this build, will order sometime in the next few weeks

cant wait to game on it

Screw that 465! I'll sell both of my 275's for .. $225, shipped. :]

Be my guest! Jump in and make a better gaming build for less money.

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#27 ATLReppa770
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[QUOTE="ATLReppa770"][QUOTE="hkhatir"]

thanks a lot for your help

i really appreciate it

i think im gonna go with this build, will order sometime in the next few weeks

cant wait to game on it

hartsickdiscipl

Screw that 465! I'll sell both of my 275's for .. $225, shipped. :]

Be my guest! Jump in and make a better gaming build for less money.

Are you recommending that he accepts that deal?
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#28 hartsickdiscipl
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[QUOTE="hartsickdiscipl"]

[QUOTE="ATLReppa770"] Screw that 465! I'll sell both of my 275's for .. $225, shipped. :]ATLReppa770

Be my guest! Jump in and make a better gaming build for less money.

Are you recommending that he accepts that deal?

Meaning that he buy your GTX 275's?

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#29 ATLReppa770
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[QUOTE="ATLReppa770"][QUOTE="hartsickdiscipl"]

Be my guest! Jump in and make a better gaming build for less money.

hartsickdiscipl

Are you recommending that he accepts that deal?

Meaning that he buy your GTX 275's?

Mhm. As in, that's not a rip-off price that I gave him, is it?
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#30 hartsickdiscipl
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[QUOTE="hartsickdiscipl"]

[QUOTE="ATLReppa770"] Are you recommending that he accepts that deal?ATLReppa770

Meaning that he buy your GTX 275's?

Mhm. As in, that's not a rip-off price that I gave him, is it?

No, it's not a rip-off price. It's a fair price. I'm not sure that I would bite, but it's a fair price.

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#31 hkhatir
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would it be a better performing pc with 2 275's as opposed to a 465????

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#32 ATLReppa770
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would it be a better performing pc with 2 275's as opposed to a 465????

hkhatir
Yes. My 275's in SLi gave me about the same, near performance I'm now getting with my single GTX 570. I'll wait for other comments to confirm though ..