building $800 PC

[rietetsu]

So I do alot of online gaming and I've been saving up to build my own PC, now that I've saved up $800 I think I may be at a good place to start looking for stuff to build my PC.

I want to run games like vindictus, tera, guild wars 2, and soon to be blade and soul and rise of incarnates with no problem on fairly high settings if not the highest

first question, is that even possible my budget being $800 complete max being $900?

If so great, if not what would be the best I could do for this amount of money?

my knowledge of pc building is very minuscule but i'm willing to do my homework.

thanks in advance!

 

[Onus]

^Agreed. When I beta tested GW2, I found a stock i5-3570K+HD7770 provided a better experience than a 3.9GHz 970BE+HD7870, even though graphics settings had to be somewhat lower (but still good).

 

[EasyLover]

I think, my proposed build can meet OP's requirement with ease.

 

[logainofhades]

^Agreed. When I beta tested GW2, I found a stock i5-3570K+HD7770 provided a better experience than a 3.9GHz 970BE+HD7870, even though graphics settings had to be somewhat lower (but still good).

Yes, MMO's are very CPU dependant. SSD vs HDD means nothing for FPS, though. It will affect loading times, depending on internet connection. If the games you are playing need to go to the drive for virtual memory, add more ram.

 

[Onus]

Zoning or [re]spawn times are affected by a SSD. Before I had one, I remember sometimes getting croaked after resurrecting in GW before I could do anything.
I've realized a $200 graphics card can pretty much max the MMOs I've played, including Neverwinter and GW2.

 

[logainofhades]

Zoning or [re]spawn times are affected by a SSD. Before I had one, I remember sometimes getting croaked after resurrecting in GW before I could do anything.
I've realized a $200 graphics card can pretty much max the MMOs I've played, including Neverwinter and GW2.

Yea, I considered getting a cheap SSD, just for WoW, to see how much it would help with the load times. My load times aren't horrible, but they could probably be a bit better.

 

[mdocod]

If you live in a bench-marking bar graph bubble where peak FPS is the only thing that counts, one could easily slip a $500 GPU into this budget with a weak CPU, mechy drive, etc. The result would be an impractical novelty that spews 287FPS in an empty cave, but crawls to a stuttering pathetic slideshow in busy towns/battles. The practical/responsible approach to a machine dedicated to MMORPG and other compute intensive multiplayer games is to build a balanced machine. A ~$200 CPU, ~$200 GPU, and ~$100 SSD make up an ideal allocation of funds for such a machine.