I'm thinking of a budget casual gaming build.

[chafin96]

I want to do some light gaming and am not sure what parts I should be going with. I'm not looking to do anything too insane. Maybe a little bit of CSGO at 120+ fps and some battlefield 4 at 30+ fps on medium settings. The build I had in mind for this is as follows.

CPU: Core 2 Quad Q6600
GPU: EVGA SC GTX 750 Ti
PSU: Corsair CX430M
RAM: 8gb DDR3-1333
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1tb
Some $40 case with nothing special.

I think this should meet my needs but I'm not entirely sure. Just wanted a second opinion before I went through with this. This comes out to about $450 I believe.

 

[Gnuffi]

mmm cant go wrong with q6600 😀, then again im prob pretty biased towards that as it was my old cpu and served me so well
it all looks good though

 

[BadActor]

New parts, an upgrade path, better performance.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor ($111.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: MSI H110M Pro-VD Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($54.99 @ Micro Center)
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($32.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($43.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 950 2GB Video Card ($127.99 @ Micro Center)
Case: Corsair SPEC-01 RED ATX Mid Tower Case ($39.99 @ Micro Center)
Power Supply: XFX TS 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply
Total: $411.94
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-20 21:29 EDT-0400

 

[chafin96]

mmm cant go wrong with q6600 😀, then again im prob pretty biased towards that as it was my old cpu and served me so well
it all looks good though

I figured this would do me very well being as I'm not that big into gaming. I just like to spend maybe 5 hours a week playing small games such as CSGO and stuff so I'm not really looking to throw $800+ into a PC. My main concern is playing the games I want to play at a playable fps. Do you know about how well this card would handle a game like GTA V on medium-high settings?

 

[chafin96]

New parts, an upgrade path, better performance.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor ($111.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: MSI H110M Pro-VD Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($54.99 @ Micro Center)
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($32.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($43.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 950 2GB Video Card ($127.99 @ Micro Center)
Case: Corsair SPEC-01 RED ATX Mid Tower Case ($39.99 @ Micro Center)
Power Supply: XFX TS 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply
Total: $411.94
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-20 21:29 EDT-0400

This is a pretty decent build. I think I will go with this one. Are any of these prices rebate reduced? I'm not really looking to do all that but will if need be.

 

[Gnuffi]

I figured this would do me very well being as I'm not that big into gaming. I just like to spend maybe 5 hours a week playing small games such as CSGO and stuff so I'm not really looking to throw $800+ into a PC. My main concern is playing the games I want to play at a playable fps. Do you know about how well this card would handle a game like GTA V on medium-high settings?

the 950 wont like GTA V very much, so dont expect any high settings at decent fps, after all its a low end card
might i suggest teh gtx 960 instead of 950, http://pcpartpicker.com/part/evga-video-card-04gp41962kr 40$ more, but its a sweet card, and does very well at 1080p in alot of titles(much overkill for CS:GO tho ofc 😀)