Minimum for Running PC

Deadly_geek

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Aug 22, 2014
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I'm trying to see what is the minimum components needed to get a Pc up and running. I already have a 85w motherboard including cpu with sticks of ram and a 90w power supply, along with a hdd.
I already know the parts I will buy because this will be a (budget, with a few compromises, looking at $600 because I chose the top graphics card for now) gaming pc but im tired of the motherboard sitting in the box, its eating me alive. This will be my first build.
 
Solution
Define "running"
A BIOS screen? motherboard, PSU, RAM, CPU
An OS as well? Some sort of drive. Linux can run directly off a USP stick or CD. Windows needs a hard drive to install to.