Ok, I'm not sure if this is the right section for this thread, but I couldn't find a section that I think is appropriate, so mod(s), feel free to move it to where it would fit best.
I'm putting together a budget gaming rig for a friend. I'm having a hard time keeping the budget around $350. I'm sitting at $400 before tax/shipping. The case and video card are already owned by either myself or him. Case is an old CM Centurion, and video card is a Radeon HD5550 (won in a folding competition here), so that frees up some budget space. He's not an enthusiast, he just wants to be able to run WoW and other games at just slightly above minimum settings. He doesn't want/need the best of the best. His current computer is so old that it doesn't have a PCIE 2.0 x16 slot, so just about anything currently on the market ought to be an upgrade. I did want to give him some room to upgrade later on without having to make major modifications to the system. So here's what I scrounged together:
ASRock motherboard
AMD Phenom II X4 965
G.Skill 4GB DDR3 RAM (was cheaper than buying 2x2GB)
OCZ 500W PSU
WD 500GB HDD
LG DVD Burner
Any suggestions as to what I can/should change to get to around $350? Most likely, stock coolers will be used.
I'm putting together a budget gaming rig for a friend. I'm having a hard time keeping the budget around $350. I'm sitting at $400 before tax/shipping. The case and video card are already owned by either myself or him. Case is an old CM Centurion, and video card is a Radeon HD5550 (won in a folding competition here), so that frees up some budget space. He's not an enthusiast, he just wants to be able to run WoW and other games at just slightly above minimum settings. He doesn't want/need the best of the best. His current computer is so old that it doesn't have a PCIE 2.0 x16 slot, so just about anything currently on the market ought to be an upgrade. I did want to give him some room to upgrade later on without having to make major modifications to the system. So here's what I scrounged together:
ASRock motherboard
AMD Phenom II X4 965
G.Skill 4GB DDR3 RAM (was cheaper than buying 2x2GB)
OCZ 500W PSU
WD 500GB HDD
LG DVD Burner
Any suggestions as to what I can/should change to get to around $350? Most likely, stock coolers will be used.
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. Yeah, so he can get a hard drive for more storage later on down the road when prices come down more. Right now you are still paying twice what they sold for a year ago. And I think that Phenom can have the 4th core unlocked. If your local microcenter doesn't have that one, they usually have some other decent cheap Phenoms. I got an x4 830 for my home server for like 40 bucks.
Somehow my links got messed up when I posted that. I've fixed my original post. Yeah....I had 2 processors listed...
