Graphics Cards?

I'm currently building a PC for myself (a *modest* gaming rig) and I have every part down and priced except the Graphics card! I'm on a budget so nothing over $300 any suggestions or advice is greatly appreciated!

I'm currently building a PC for myself (a *modest* gaming rig) and I have every part down and priced except the Graphics card! I'm on a budget so nothing over $300 any suggestions or advice is greatly appreciated!

legoguitarman

Processor: AMD Athlon II X4 640 Quad Core Processor AM3 3.0GHZ 2MB

MotherBoard: Asus Motherboard M4A78LT-M LE AMD AM3 microATX 760G/SB710 PCI Express DDR3 ATI LAN

Memory/Ram: Mushkin Enhanced Silverline Stiletto 8GB 2X4GB PC3-10666 DDR3-1333 9-9-9-24 Dual Channel Memory Kit

Hard drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB 3.5IN SATA 6GB/S With NCQ Internal Hard Drive OEM

Powersupply: OCZ ModXStream Pro 700W ATX 20/24PIN SLI Ready Modular Cables 135mm Fan 80PLUS Power Supply

Are all these parts compatable??

What resolution is your monitor?

Also, unless you're confident you're going to go SLI/Crossfire in the future, cut your PSU down to 500-600W and put the savings towards a Phenom II. That Athlon is going to be pretty underwhelming considering your budget.

indeed what case are you using? there are a few bits that are overexcessive and if you jsut want to trim the money for a case from the gpu thats fine to plenty of good sub 240 dollar gpu's

As others said, it's a bit unbalanced. You won't really need 8GB of ram with an Athlon, and own't need a power supply that big.

Oh okay thanks! I don't quite understand the un-balanced part (forgive me please!) but I can change my power supply I have NOT bought anything yet I wanted to run it by the good people here on the PC Hardware boards first, Do you have any suggestions for what to switch too, I think I can figure out the powersupply. I got the case for free at my local recycling depot but it is a mid-tower case, made for a dell computer. I plan to plug my rig into an HD TV but I'm not sure of the resolution,

@PBSnipes: forgive my ignorance but is the Phenom more powerful than the Athlon? I'd like my rig to be on the more powerful side so if I need to upgrade my processor I probably can.

I am buying all my parts locally at NCIX http://ncix.com/ and for my price wise $150 MAX per part but I've left room in my budget for more on the graphics card (MAX $250)

Thank you all for the input I've really learned a lot just by reading your comments!

Just found a powersupply on the NCIX website:

OCZ ModXStream Pro 500W ATX 20/24PIN SLI Ready Modular Cables 135mm Fan Active PFC Power Supply priced at $39.99

Link: http://ncix.com/products/index.php?minorcatid=1066

EDIT: After taking in your comments on the processor started to look at the AMD Phenom processors and got this link: http://source.ncix.com/lp4/AMD_PhenomX6/index.html I can spend a little bit more on the processor thanks to my Dad who wants to help me build, which one of the 4 seems best? MUST HAVE HDMI!! Thanks

You won't really need 8GB of ram with an Athlon, and own't need a power supply that big.

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