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2500k=$230
Gigabyte Z68-UD3=$160
Corsair 8GB DDR3-1600mhz=$50
CM Storm Trooper=$150
Corsair 750watt=$105
MSI Twin Frozr III=$300
Have about $5 left after all of that and that's not including rebates and most of that ships for free.You could also go even cheaper if you wanted to get a lesser case,PSU or mobo.Which could give you an additional $200.
This is the cyberpower pc listing not including the tower
2 x 550 Ti 1gb or 2x amd radeon 6750 1gb or 2x 6850
My system will be Asetek liquid cooling, gigabyte ga-990fxa motherboard 8gb ddr3 corsair AMD fx-8150 8core @ 3.60 GHZ (first system I have customized) but since starting this thread and from people have been saying I have kinda changed my mind a couple of times.
I don't really bother with rebates I have a wife who hates anything to do with rebates, and has also put me in this budget because well if she didn't I would end up buying stuff I really don't need, because if I really had my way it would make coffee as well as play games lol.
I notice a couple of times people have said get 1 decent card. A couple of things with this, most of the time I have always had a low-mid range card usually budget prices ranging anywhere from 80-120 bux on newegg. I could get a nice high priced card but if it died chances are it would be a while before I could replace it. With dual mid range cards if one dies I always have one I can fall back on, and can probably replace a cheaper card much sooner than I could an expensive one.
I have looked at cyberpower to their intel based pc's but the cards that come with it don't show to good stats for games like battlefield 3 for the ones within my budget usually come with a 520 or 550 Ti which show up as would need to be played in low settings.
I have tried playing it on a GT 240 in low settings and well you may as well just laugh.