Need Help Building CHEAP Gaming System

Jun 21, 2015
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I'm trying to build a cheap gaming system but i need help finding the following

-PC Case
-Mother Board
-Power Supply
-Hard Drive

I want the mother boards to have 2 USB 3.0 Ports (Dont need much more than that) and also needs to be compatible with the Intel Pentium G3258 and the Radeon HD 7790 2GB VRAM,
those two parts will cost me 140$ which is pretty great! I already found 8 GB DDR3 Ram from kingston which is 1444 Mhz as I do not care for Ram speed at all

I dont really care about the power supply or the PC case, as long as they are able to support both the motherboard my and the parts above im completeley fine with it.

NOTE: For the hard drive im looking for 500 GB with maybe 7200 RPM or something higher, i dont need 1 TB as most of my games are below 20 GB or so

of course I have so far 50 bucks for all these things so any help or recommendations are helpful!
 
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Ok, lets try.........

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4150 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor ($109.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H81M-H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($41.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($26.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 320GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($27.75 @ Amazon)
Case: Thermaltake VL80001W2Z ATX Mid Tower Case ($22.99 @ Micro Center)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply ($27.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $257.69
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available...
You can't get a case, hard drive, and power supply for $50 unless you go look in the junk bin. FYI the 7790 requires you to at least have a decent power supply. If you go and buy a cheap one it's probably going to fry your system. Of course those cheap PSUs like to do that regardless of whether or not you aggravate it with a GPU.

FYI the 7790 isn't a very good card. It'll only manage low on modern games with low FPS. It's not a big step up from the graphics integrated into the G3258.
 


That is not gonna happen.

Now...let's be realistic.
1. What parts do you have, specifically?
2. What is your budget for the rest of the parts. (do NOT specify specific parts, we are just looking for a budget of what is missing from #1)
 
And i dont have any PC parts except a few gadgets like a keyboard, mouse, monitor, etc.

My total buget for my gaming PC is $210 (USD), I can go up to $300 (USBD but it will take an additioanl week or so to afford that.

And im not a graphics whore so I don't care about 1080p 500 BILLION FPS ULTRA MEGA SETTINGS, I can live with medium or low settings, with a minimum of 60 FPS, I will also accept 30 FPS ONLY if i can play modern games like blacks ops 3 on high settings.

And I'm new to PC building so I dont know if something works with another, so any recommendation of parts that allow me play modern games like Dark Souls 3 or Black ops 3 on medium-low settings at 60 FPS

 
i didnt mean i have 50$, I meant planned on spending money on those various parts with 50$ left for extra stuff, but it isnt hard to build a $300 PC as many tech youtubers have managed it to do so spending 250$! but I'll spend 300$ for maybe a beafier GPU or CPU

also I would like to add some new rules:
NO GAMING RAM! (Regular generic DDR3 8GB Ram 1600 MHz is fine by me, i dont want 64 GB of DDR5 RAM for 3000 bucks
No low storage SSD's! I dont want a 32 GB SSD over a 500 GB HDD, I want storage, and decent speed
Wirless PCIe card! If possible, try including a Wirless card, 60 Mbps down and 10 Up is minimum for a card, if you cannot it's fine

Thanks!

 


YouTubers are able to get PCs at those prices because they find limited time deals. Due to that nature, by the time you get around to checking any deal we had posted it will most likely be over. For example, I got a G3258 for $40 the other day. That was on ebay and the only one at that price. Chances are if I hadn't snapped it up quickly it would have been gone in another minute or two.

Unfortunately getting extreme deals requires a knowledge of many PC parts (old and new), how to get them cheap, and how to make them work.

We can post a retail build here but it won't be as cheap as you hope.
 
Ok, lets try.........

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4150 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor ($109.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H81M-H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($41.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($26.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 320GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($27.75 @ Amazon)
Case: Thermaltake VL80001W2Z ATX Mid Tower Case ($22.99 @ Micro Center)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply ($27.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $257.69
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-23 06:45 EDT-0400

Then see if you can find a used 660ti/R7 260 / 950 or something like that. Or be happy with your onboard graphics. Or if you can, buy this - https://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-video-card-gtx950m2gd5.

 
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