Casual Gaming PC.

[Ashley Jacob]

Ok, so um, my friend needs a desktop and was going to buy one. I told him it would be much cheaper to build one and I've built 4 PC's before so I kinda knew what I was talking about. I asked him his requirements and light casual gaming and web browsing.
Games he plays:
CS GO.
Dota 2.
WoW.
Minecraft.
CS Source.
Horror Games.(Outlast and other indie horror games.)
He has a tight budget of around 350-400$.
I was thinking of going for an fx 4300 and a gt 630 with around 8 gb ram.
To cut corners I was thinking of using an apu. Would that be more worth it?
40+ fps in all games on medium.

 

[nokiddingboss]

is he really sure that those are the only games he wanted to play out of it? you could go for an apu but it'll stifle his upgrade path completely. but for those games it'll do quite nicely. an fx6300 + r7 250x is better though but for a bit more $.

 

[damric]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Pentium G3220 3.0GHz Dual-Core Processor ($56.98 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock H81M-HDS Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($52.99 @ Micro Center)
Memory: Team Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($64.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 750 1GB Video Card ($109.99 @ NCIX US)
Case: Xion XON-560 MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($29.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 300W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($42.99 @ Mwave)
Total: $357.93
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-06-15 03:06 EDT-0400

 

[verdenshersker]

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Dc26qs
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Dc26qs/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 750K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($79.49 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock FM2A75M Pro4+ Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard ($59.49 @ Newegg)
Memory: Team Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($64.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: PNY Optima 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R7 260X 1GB Core Edition Video Card ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Cougar MG100 MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($29.99 @ Mwave)
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($24.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $438.93
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-06-15 03:32 EDT-0400


You can do it cheaper, but this has a 240 GB SSD storage instead a slow Hard Drive.

 

[DelroyMonjo]

Your 'friend' is going to need an OS, like, um, Windows or something for $85-$100.

 

[Ashley Jacob]

Ok so I've got this build for him. Sorry, I forgot to include that he sails the seas with captain jack sparrow.(If you get what I mean.)
And he's building from scratch, So that means monitor and keyboard-mouse included.
I've come up with this build:
FX 4300
650 ti 2gb DR5
Gigabyte GA-78LMT-S2
Corsair VS550
Gateway KX1563 15.6 inch LED(I'm going for a low-res monitor so less pixels to push. The 650 ti is quite a capable card, Not future proof...But with a low res screen I think it can get him running bf3 on low/med in case he wants to.)
Corsair XMS3 DDR3 8 GB (1 x 8 GB)(I know, Always go for 2x4, rather than 1x8, but I'm trying to cut corners everywhere.)
Seagate Barracuda 1 TB Desktop
Logitech MK200 USB 2.0 Keyboard and Mouse Combo


NOTE: He also wants to play the forest. I just checked it out, some indie horror survival game(Looks pretty good for an indie dev) so will this run it on max? I think it will, not sure.