looking for advice on a cheap build

[lalaine]

Budget: 500ish not including a hard drive
Resolution: 1680x1050
Games / Settings Desired: swtor and wow, medium to high settings
Any other intensive software or special things you do (Frequent video encoding, 3D modeling, etc)? nope!
Country: usa
Parts that can be reused: just a hard drive


sadly i don't have much money to spend on this, but i think something decent can be put together for this amount! hoping to get some recommendations on cpu/motherboard that i will not be overclocking, and a decent video card in this price range. thanks in advance if anyone has some suggestions.

[caffeiine]

Budget: 500ish not including a hard drive
Resolution: 1680x1050
Games / Settings Desired: swtor and wow, medium to high settings
Any other intensive software or special things you do (Frequent video encoding, 3D modeling, etc)? nope!
Country: usa
Parts that can be reused: just a hard drive


sadly i don't have much money to spend on this, but i think something decent can be put together for this amount! hoping to get some recommendations on cpu/motherboard that i will not be overclocking, and a decent video card in this price range. thanks in advance if anyone has some suggestions.

Without a monitor


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814134119 vid card 110 This card can play
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131651 mobo 100 skyrim on max dont mean alot
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103995 cpu 110
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811119233 case 50
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820145278 ram 24
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817139033 psu 80
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827106276 disc drive 19

$493 USD.

[glo]

As much as the above poster may be trying to help, that's far from an optimal build with your budget. The following will net you almost double the performance.

NZXT GAMMA $40
BIOSTAR H61MGC $55
Mushkin Enhanced Silverline 8GB $38
Intel Core i3-2120 Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz $120
OCZ ModXStream Pro 500W $65
MSI N550GTX-Ti-M2D1GD5/OC GeForce GTX 550 Ti $130
LITE-ON DVD Burner $17

$465 before shipping, leaving you with 35 bucks to spend on shipping, fans, card reader, better case, etc.

[DarkBlade6]

CPU: Core i3 2120 - 120$
Mobo: Asrock H61 - 70$
RAM: Kingston HyperX 2x4GB - 45$
PSU: Seasonic S12II 520W - 60$
GPU: HIS HD6870 - 150$
Case: Thermaltake V3 - 40$
DVD: Lite-On DVD Burner - 20$

Total: 505$

You will be able to play WoW and SWTOR with everything on Ultra except for shadow (low-med), 2x AA, 4xAF

[lalaine]

thanks for the help, guys! now to check newegg for deals in the next couple weeks, thanks again!