need help building very cheap gaming PC skyrim on medium or above

[aaron96528]

I'm trying to build my first gaming PC and I need help and advice to buy very cheap parts but that are still amazing enough to run medium or high setting and thats upgradable later on. Looking to buy piece by piece over time what to start with and what can be left for last.

 

[blue_smoke]

Athlon 5350
MSI AM1 Motherboard
4gb ddr3
gtx 750 ti
evga 430w psu
1tb hard drive
250gb ssd
rosewill fbm-01

 

[barto]

Aaron, before anyone can provide an accurate build, there are a couple questions we need to be answered.

First, what is your budget? What is included in the budget?

I'm going to go ahead and make a point. Cheap builds and high settings typically don't work.

 

[blue_smoke]

Very cheap is usually 200-300

It depends. If you can get most of your stuff from ebay (Core 2 Duo E6850, GTX 660, some 250gb hdd, decent used EarthWatts PSU, some Dell Mobo, 4gb of ddr2) then you might be able to get to high settings @ 720p.

 

[aaron96528]

Very cheap is usually 200-300

It depends. If you can get most of your stuff from ebay (Core 2 Duo E6850, GTX 660, some 250gb hdd, decent used EarthWatts PSU, some Dell Mobo, 4gb of ddr2) then you might be able to get to high settings @ 720p.

question? why ddr2 not 3?

 

[aaron96528]

was thinking of $350 a micro atx mid tower build amd processor and 4-8gb ram 4 if i can upgrade to 8 later and want it upgrade-able later on i know its alot but ive been searching

 

[barto]

Well medium settings would be possible at 720, but high settings is probably out. It's just too small of a budget for anything higher considering you'll most likely not have a discrete GPU.

 

[aaron96528]

AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition FX-4300 (thinking of this one)
OS: Windows 7-8.1 (purchased)
Storage: WD Caviar blue 1Tb(made up my mind on this one)
PSU: CX450 (thinking of it)
Motherboard: ASRock 970M PRO3 (maybe)

Need help with compatibility

 

[barto]

The 4300 doesn't have graphics on it. The PC won't even boot. Again, a discrete graphics card is needed. For your budget, you'll have to go with an FM2+ CPU because of the embedded GPU on the CPU.

 

[aaron96528]

I know it won't boot so far without video card I want to leave that for last I'm just saying those are the parts I have in mind so far

 

[barto]

It's not a bad start for a budget build. Everything is compatible so far.

 

[aaron96528]

That budget is just for everything else the video card is separate I don't mind blowing video card is with it