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Good gaming pc?

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Oct 19, 2014
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So i found this website while looking for good budget pc builds. And i found these budget builds. http://elitegamingcomputers.com/good-cheap-gaming-computers/#21
I was looking at the $500 and $600 dollar builds. Black Friday/Cyber Monday/Christmas is coming up and I'm in the market. My terrible laptop lags with minecraft so nuff said right there. If you dont feel like clicking the link i will copy paste the parts, thanks for the help. (i hope i posted this in the right section)
$500
CPU AMD FX-6300

MOBO ASUS M5A78L-M LX PLUS AM3+

GPU HIS Radeon R9 280

RAM Kingston HyperX Fury 8GB

HDD Seagate Barracuda 500 GB

CASE Rosewill Dual Fans

PSU XFX Core Edition PRO 550W

ODD Samsung 24x SATA

$600
CPU AMD FX-6300

MOBO ASUS M5A97 R2.0

GPU HIS Radeon R9 280

RAM Kingston HyperX Fury 8GB

HDD Seagate Barracuda 500 GB

CASE Corsair Carbide SPEC-01

PSU XFX Core Edition PRO 550W

ODD Samsung 24x SATA
 
Solution
Only difference between the 2 will be the case...And that's really all about your preference. The build is good for a gaming build. but I would recommend the first build and adding a AMD FX 8320 instead of the 6300, it will run you about $550 in all
Only difference between the 2 will be the case...And that's really all about your preference. The build is good for a gaming build. but I would recommend the first build and adding a AMD FX 8320 instead of the 6300, it will run you about $550 in all
 
Solution
Yes those are very good gaming PC's the R9 280 is the AMD equivalent of Nvidias 770. The main difference between these two builds is that the second builds motherboard supports future upgrades in the terms of Crossfire as well as the case which comes down to aesthetics. You will be able to run Minecraft really well and even games like BF4 will run very smoothly at very high settings.
 


Thank you all very much