I'd like to build a good gaming pc for $700

I don't need the os or monitor, I already have those, but I'd need everything else. Can anyone show me where I can find the best parts for the best price? I would do it myself, but I'm a complete newbie at this :P

I generally go newegg/tigerdirect.

see sticky for guide assembling.

I orderd yesterday for $550 on www.newegg.com an antec 900 case, corsair 650watt powersupply, 500gb harrdrive, asus dvd drives, 4gb ddr3 ram and a MSI GTX 560 TI so$700 is plenty of money to play around with different builds(Got an x4 3.2ghz processor with free motherboard at a local shop which only cost me another $100)

So does it really matter much about the case? Like, would this be a good case?

So does it really matter much about the case? Like, would this be a good case?

razor990

Seems ok, for simple build.

Yes a good case matters. You are gonna mount all the parts inside, you don't want sloppy construction.

Here's what you can get for $700

Rosewill CHALLENGER Black Gaming ATX Mid Tower Computer Case, comes with Three Fans-1x Front Blue LED 120mm Fan, 1x Top 140mm

Western Digital Caviar Blue WD6400AAKS 640GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

MSI 870A-G55 AM3 AMD 770 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard

G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-4GBR

AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor HDZ955FBGMBOX

MSI N560GTX-TI Twin Frozr II/OC GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video ..

LG CD/DVD Burner Black IDE Model GH22LP21 LightScribe Support - OEM

Thank you for all the parts. How good will the graphics be with that card?

Thank you for all the parts. How good will the graphics be with that card?

razor990

How good will the graphics be with that card?

razor990

wonderful

Thank you for all the parts. How good will the graphics be with that card?

razor990

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Thank you for all the parts. How good will the graphics be with that card?

mastershake575

Heres the power supply

Antec BP550 Plus 550W Continuous Power ATX12V V2.2 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply

700 dollars. Go sandy bridge. jedikevin2

I agree with this ^^ $700 budget without monitor or OS included, you should get a sandy bridge cpu and a amd 6870/geforce 460 1gb

[QUOTE="jedikevin2"]700 dollars. Go sandy bridge. blaznwiipspman1

I agree with this ^^ $700 budget without monitor or OS included, you should get a sandy bridge cpu and a amd 6870/geforce 460 1gb

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[QUOTE="jedikevin2"]700 dollars. Go sandy bridge. gmaster456

I agree with this ^^ $700 budget without monitor or OS included, you should get a sandy bridge cpu and a amd 6870/geforce 460 1gb

the core i5 2500k is much more future proof than the 955. Also it is much cheaper to upgrade a gpu than a cpu down the line. Grafix cards evolve so fast its not even funny, so that in less than an year he could probably get a graphics card with the same level of power as the 560 ti for about $150, maybe even cheaper. Those are my reasons to get the i5 2500k over the 955 anyways plus a 6870/460 1gb will do just as well as the 560 ti in most games anyways.