Building my first comp.

[blade5o]

Since SWTOR's release i've decided to indulge in building a comp for it heres the parts i'm planning on getting any thoughts?

Graphics Card

Power Supply

Ram

Mobo

Case

Processor

*forgot to add the processor originally*

[Fuzzykins]

What's your budget?

[blade5o]

Around 600

[Fuzzykins]

What can you salvage from your old build?

[blade5o]

Possibly just the case haha

[Ascetic]

I like to shop at newegg. and i usually browse and build computers in my shopping list. i recently built a computer with an AMD chip in it for around 714 dollars with a monitor. Thats without any combos and Shell Shockers can really lower the cost of a computer...

Side note : Hard drives are overpriced atm.

I think your parts wouldnt be too great but i believe you can find something a bit better

[Butterland]

From Marest. First one is ~600 with hard drive. Second one you can get for ~600 if you already have a hard drive.
Second one will last you longer in your future games, including SWTOR. Don't go cheap on GPU, SWTOR requires a much better graphic card than WOW and so will future MMOs like GW2 and Titan. Your current choice of a GPU wouldn't even run WoW well at low settings imo.

Budget Gaming 550
MoBo: ASRock H67M (B3) – $79.99
CPU: Intel i3 2100 – $124.99
RAM: G.Skill 1333MHz 2x2GB – $24.99
GPU: Sapphire Radeon 6870 – $164.99
HDD: WD Caviar Blue 500GB – $99.99
PSU: Enermax NAXN 450W – $39.99
Case: NZXT Gamma Classic – $39.99 Review
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Estimated Total Price – $575

Budget Gaming 700
MoBo: MSI P67S-C43 – $99.99
CPU: Intel i5 2500k – $219.99
RAM: G.Skill 1600MHz Ripjaws 2x2GB – $29.99
GPU: Sapphire Radeon 6870 – $164.99
HDD: WD Caviar Blue 500GB – $99.99
PSU: XFX ProSeries 450W – $58.99 Review
Case: Xigmatek Asgard II – $39.99 Review
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Estimated Total Price – $714

[Nellah]

Agreed, that GPU is really horrible. The above builds are great ones to start from. For a modern build, I wouldn't go lower than a GTX460/HD 6850 GPU, with preference to the 6870 (an amazing price/performance card) or better.

If you do modify your existing build, make sure to get two RAM sticks (2x2GiB or 2x4GiB), as modern CPUs benefit heavily from dual channel memory, which requires RAM sticks to be installed in pairs.

[blade5o]

The ASRock H67M over the Z68?

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Ok so far i'm looking to get the:

Sapphire 6870
ASRock H67M
Ripjaws 2x2gb
Intel I3-2100

but which power supply?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...%20NAXN%20450W

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...oSeries%20450W