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What would be YOUR affordable gaming rig (1k budget)
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 3:19 PM
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I know i have made a similar thread lately but a different fella wants an affordable gaming rig. This was my rough my build based on components i've been reading up on lately.
i5-2500k $230
Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 $160
EVGA geforce 560 ti FPB $250
CORSAIR Enthusiast Series TX650 $100
CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 $50
Western Digital Caviar Black WD7502AAEX 750GB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" $140
Antec Three Hundred Illusion Black Steel ATX Mid $65
Windows 7 OEM - $110
Total(including shipping) = $1200
It comes up $200 over the budget. He'd rather have his build less than $1000 (lil over doesn't hurt too much).
The games he currently plays are League of Legends and Starcraft 2. But he plays Call of Duty of consoles and might want to try shooters such as BF3 on his rig. But he's not a hardcore gamer per say. So i was thinking an AMD build might be a good option for him? I heard the FM1 chipsets have REALLY good integrated graphics which we could try for his not-so-demanding games such as LoL and SC2 then get a GPU whenever he feels like it. Also, it is my understanding AMD have some really interesting options for affordable gaming rig?
If any of you would be interesting in sharing your ideas over this, it would be greatly appreciated. I have very little knowledge of AMD, as you can see.
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Re:What would be YOUR affordable gaming rig (1k budget)
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 3:50 PM
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I havn't really added up the cost of my rig (my signature) that i'm trying to build. but it's based on a AMD right. you can just copy and paste everything in Newegg or Tiger Direct ( tiger direct have the CPU)
Setup: Case:NZXT Phantom Black Full Tower CPU:AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz Socket AM3 Quad-Core Processor MOBO:ASUS Sabertooth 990FX AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard CPUCOOLER:Loki sd963 by xigmatek HHD:Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5"Hard Drive /500GB HHD OS:Windows 7 Professional 64 bit PSU:Thermaltake Black Widow 850W power supply RAM:G.SKILL Ripjaws DDR3 8GB(2X4GB) X2 totaling 16gigs GPU:EVGA Geforce Gtx 560 1gb Superclocked My affilate code:WYX7H7IJDY
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Re:What would be YOUR affordable gaming rig (1k budget)
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 4:06 PM
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Same components (except eVGA 560 Ti SC 01G-P3-1567-KR), I come up with $1,066.95.
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Re:What would be YOUR affordable gaming rig (1k budget)
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 4:11 PM
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=/ still not to bad, I did change the motherboard like 30minutes ago. I realized I haven't did that since I'm going with the Sabertooth which supports the new FM1 CPUS Nahtak, and it's 184.99 instead of the 219.99 the crosshair V formula was.
Setup: Case:NZXT Phantom Black Full Tower CPU:AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz Socket AM3 Quad-Core Processor MOBO:ASUS Sabertooth 990FX AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard CPUCOOLER:Loki sd963 by xigmatek HHD:Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5"Hard Drive /500GB HHD OS:Windows 7 Professional 64 bit PSU:Thermaltake Black Widow 850W power supply RAM:G.SKILL Ripjaws DDR3 8GB(2X4GB) X2 totaling 16gigs GPU:EVGA Geforce Gtx 560 1gb Superclocked My affilate code:WYX7H7IJDY
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Re:What would be YOUR affordable gaming rig (1k budget)
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 4:30 PM
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@OP...Do you have a Microcenter nearby? If so, you could get the 2500K for 179.99 +tax and drop down to a 320 or 500 gig caviar black and save close to a hundred or so...
HAF X / I7 960 @4.0/ Zalman 9900MAX/ GIGABYTE X58A-UD5 Rev. 2 / 12 Gb Crucial Ballistix Tracer 1600 / Samsung 830 SSD 128 gb / 1Tb Caviar Black / GIGABYTE GTX 670 2 GB / Creative XFi Titanium PCIe / Corsair HX1000 / Hannspree 28" Antec 902 / I5 2500K @4.2/ Corsair H70 / Biostar TZ77XE4 /8 GB Mushkin Silverline 1600 / Samsung 830 SSD 128 gb / 1 tb Caviar black / EVGA GTX 580 3 GB / Creative XFI Titanum PCIe / Toughpower 875W / HP 2509 27"
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Re:What would be YOUR affordable gaming rig (1k budget)
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 5:24 PM
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I don't think we have any of those in Canada. If the build ended ended up at $1066, that'd be great. But add shipping and windows 7 and i'm only shaving off about 50 bucks (there is also a 20 inmail rebate i didn't factor in).
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Re:What would be YOUR affordable gaming rig (1k budget)
Thursday, January 26, 2012 7:27 AM
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You did not mention where you were located, or where you were buying from, so I chose some items locally where I live, and a couple others from the Internet.
Regarding the copy of Windows, it is against the TOS to discuss that sort of thing, you might want to edit your post.
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Re:What would be YOUR affordable gaming rig (1k budget)
Thursday, January 26, 2012 11:00 AM
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If he's only playing LoL and SC2 you could skimp on the GPu for now and get a decent one later.
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Re:What would be YOUR affordable gaming rig (1k budget)
Thursday, January 26, 2012 3:06 PM
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i5-2500k $230 GIGABYTE GA-Z68A-D3H-B3 $110 EVGA geforce 560 ti FPB $250 CORSAIR Enthusiast Series TX650 $100 CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 $50 Western Digital Caviar Black WD7502AAEX 750GB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" $140 Antec Three Hundred Illusion Black Steel ATX Mid $65 ASUS 24X DVD Burner $23 TOTAL (shipping included): $1,033.09 I modified it lightly and added a DVD burner. How does that look like? Any suggestions?
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Re:What would be YOUR affordable gaming rig (1k budget)
Friday, January 27, 2012 6:55 AM
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Nashtak
i5-2500k $230
GIGABYTE GA-Z68A-D3H-B3 $110
EVGA geforce 560 ti FPB $250
CORSAIR Enthusiast Series TX650 $100
CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 $50
Western Digital Caviar Black WD7502AAEX 750GB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" $140
Antec Three Hundred Illusion Black Steel ATX Mid $65
ASUS 24X DVD Burner $23
TOTAL (shipping included): $1,033.09
I modified it lightly and added a DVD burner.
How does that look like?
Any suggestions?
Looks good, but i would rather spend 7 extra bucks on a Asus motherboard and get a better color scheme/looks, more audio flexebility and EFI bios.  http://www.newegg.com/Pro...x?Item=N82E16813131781
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Re:What would be YOUR affordable gaming rig (1k budget)
Friday, January 27, 2012 7:14 AM
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Pretty good! It's too bad that the HDD is eating up a big portion of your budget. When I built my rig, a WD Blue 1 TB drive only cost $60 CAD!
My rig (excluding the SSD) cost me about $1000 CAD (including 13% tax)
Intel i5 2500K @ 4.2 GHz | ASUS P8P67 | EVGA GTX 560 Ti 448 Classified | G.Skill Snipers 8GB | Seasonic M12II 620W OCZ Vertex 3 120GB | WD Caviar Blue 1TB | CM Hyper 212+ | Silverstone PS06
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Re:What would be YOUR affordable gaming rig (1k budget)
Thursday, February 23, 2012 11:04 AM
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I'm confused. The GIGABYTE GA-Z68A-D3H-B3 only has 2 fans plug ins? It seems i can't plug the back fan and one of the front fan.
How do i deal with this?
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Re:What would be YOUR affordable gaming rig (1k budget)
Thursday, February 23, 2012 12:27 PM
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Looks like you have 4 fan connectors.
Even so just use a 4pin molex adapter if need be..
There are 2 fan connectors at the bottom label Sys_fan 1 $ Sys_2
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Re:What would be YOUR affordable gaming rig (1k budget)
Thursday, February 23, 2012 4:14 PM
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Yes i do have those. I guess i need adapters..
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