gaming pc between 200-300 dollars?

I have an XFX Ghost 7770 along with an i5 sandy bridge 2400k. I have 12gb's of ram (100% unnecessary) but I play beamng lag free, its actually not that expensive of a setup but I can play anything. I'd look into something like mine if i were you

 

Besides everything that has been mentioned about the main parts of your build, do your know if your HDD and optical drive are IDE or SATA models? Modern mainboards don't have IDE ports anymore so if you still have IDE drives you need to swap them for SATA ones. A LG GH24NS would be a cheap but good DVD recording drive.

Possible Intel build: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1rRAb
Possible AMD build: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1rRF4

 

There is 2 reasons for that
number 1: I live in the worlds most expensive country which takes 25% tax on everything you buy (Norway).
number 2: I also bought monitor and keyboard (i forgot).

This is most likely the ideal price when i remove the extra fees and the monitor and keyboard: 1412.41 US Dollars
Yes, copy paste fucked up text..

 

$200-$300 isnt gonna get you much tbh. i spent $200 on just a 7850HD Power Edition GPU. and if u want something better than that its gonna cost more. not to mention u need a fairly good CPU to play games too esp BeamNG Drive as it seems to rely more on CPU to process the physics than anything. i'd say for a fairly decent gaming PC that will play most games decently ur gonna have to spend atleast $600-$700

 

The OP might want to use a cardboard box for a case to save some money.

 

i already have a metal box to put it in

 

In the UK at the moment the prices of GTX 670's and 680's have been slashed... I don't know why, but look out for a better deal on GFX cards

 

I just found a cable dvr box thing on the curb that had a 500gb hard drive in it... score.

 

Is it IDE or SATA? IDE drives might not fit with modern mainboards.
Since you apparently have no problem with used hardware, have you already thought about getting used hardware from e.g. Ebay or classifieds? You can often find bundles of hardware, this way you can get a decent system much easier if you only can spend a strictly limited amount of money.

 

you can get a pretty smexy PC right here:
links to all the parts are in the description, take out all the stuff you dont need and you will sure as heck hit your budget (maybe even use some of his upgrades, like the 650 ti. i own it and it works wonders)

 

I run an i5 2500k and a GTX 480 and can easily max this game at 1920x1080. I highly recommend the 480 or a 570 if you're on a budget. Keep in mind the 480 uses a lot of power though, but mine has always ran like a tank.

 

A10-5800K- 129 dollars, gets 25 fps on DRI with setting you described and no post-fx, 15 with all post-fx.

 

No... (ignore)

 

You did something horribly wrong. A 4670k at 4.5 should manage 4-5 cars at 60fps. Are you on integrated graphics? AMD doesn't have shorter lifespan either. Literally everything you said about graphics were wrong too.


OP: HD 7770 and GTX 650 will both play the game fine. My 7770 ran at 1150 and would max the game except for postFX off and aa af 8x at 60fps.

 

I have an i5-4670K that's not overclocked (Yes, an unlocked processor not overclocked; I haven't overclocked it because the 4670k was actually cheaper than the 4570 when I bought my parts, and I'm still running a stock heatsink, lol) as well as a GTX 650 that runs BeamNG at around 31fps (medium high settings), and the GPU's already been overclocked 12 (gpu clock) and 13 (mem clock) mHz. IMHO that's kinda pathetic.

Oh yeah, and if anyone plans to build a budget PC and lives in the US, Microcenter has tons of bundle deals, which is how I got a lot of discounts on my build

 

You people are fully aware this thread is from last august, right? I do believe moosedicks got his system.

 

Whups. Thanks.

 

I would recommend using the AMD A6 6400k. Although the 6800k is a little better, it is also twice as expensive. I recently saw the 6400k used in this build. It can still run some games at a decent FPS at 1080p and almost all games at 720p pretty well. Good luck and best of wishes in your search.

 

a6-6400k won't run shit lol I have the a6-5400k

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/FhxXhM

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