Building my own computer, please suggest any changes.

[TheBlackParrot]

The case.
The motherboard
A basic DVD-R reader
350W power supply
Going to buy 2 of these 2GB DDR3 PC10600 RAM sticks
3GHz AMD Athlon II X2 CPU

I'm salvaging my nVidia 8400GS (for now) and 160GB IDE HDD (for now). Eventually I'll probably move to a better video card, and will get a SATA and maybe an SSD drive.
also just wanted to play games on medium to medium-high settings around 35, 40 FPS.

SO specs will be:
4GB DDR3 PC10600 RAM
nVidia 8400GS PCI 512MB
AMD Athlon II X2 3GHz
160GB IDE HDD
Windows 7 Ultimate, probably 64-bit

My budget was anything under $210 because I'm poor so...
Any suggestions?

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[Trogtor]

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[Unwritten Calender]

hi

stop spamming your hi's and help a brotha out
anyway, all I know is, my computer was 500 bucks and I can't run so much :c

[TheBlackParrot]

stop spamming your hi's and help a brotha out
anyway, all I know is, my computer was 500 bucks and I can't run so much :c

imagine how i feel with mine now.

was only $64 when i got it. then i put ~$60 into it.

[steve5451]

I'd get a product with reviews first.

[Nickelob Ultra]

Get something that isn't open box for your motherboard.  It'd probably save headaches in the long run.

I also suggest getting a SATA HDD.  Hard drives aren't exactly expensive except for SSDs, and although there's an IDE port in the pictures it isn't listed on the product page which concerns me.

[Righteous One]

I wouldn't even bother building that computer. Most of the parts are outdated and there isn't really anything in your price range that would be better. You're much better off saving about $500. You could easily build something twice as powerful as that.

[TheBlackParrot]

Get something that isn't open box for your motherboard.  It'd probably save headaches in the long run.

What do you mean?

I also suggest getting a SATA HDD.  Hard drives aren't exactly expensive except for SSDs, and although there's an IDE port in the pictures it isn't listed on the product page which concerns me.

I do plan on getting a SATA HDD sometime after I build this. Video card first though, a PCI video card won't do too well. lol

I wouldn't even bother building that computer. Most of the parts are outdated and there isn't really anything in your price range that would be better. You're much better off saving about $500. You could easily build something twice as powerful as that.

I know I could easily build something more powerful. Did you even care to notice that I don't care if I can run games in super duper high quality, I care more for performance.

Also I don't have a lot of money like some of you do, sorry. Money is kinda tight over here.

[Messes]

I know I could easily build something more powerful. Did you even care to notice that I don't care if I can run games in super duper high quality, I care more for performance.

He never stated anything about running games. All he said was if you saved up more, you could build something more powerful, which is true.

You're not going to be able to run super duper high quality games, you are correct.

The performance on games is not going to be spectacular either, however.

If you specified what games you wanted to play... it could be easier. All you said was "I want to play games on medium/medium-high."

[Miga]

That GPU's going to be bottlenecking stuff. You probably won't be able to play a lot on medium/high except older games.

[Legodude77]

That GPU's going to be bottlenecking stuff. You probably won't be able to play a lot on medium/high except older games.

This, you should probably buy a ~$50 graphics card.

[kake]

I wouldn't even bother building that computer. Most of the parts are outdated and there isn't really anything in your price range that would be better. You're much better off saving about $500. You could easily build something twice as powerful as that.

Why do you have Bisjac's avatar?

[Decepticon]

How to build a computer.

[TheBlackParrot]

That GPU's going to be bottlenecking stuff. You probably won't be able to play a lot on medium/high except older games.

This, you should probably buy a ~$50 graphics card.

I'm salvaging my nVidia 8400GS (for now)

But which one would you reccomend?

How to build a computer.

gee thx that certinly helped alot!1!!!1

[Ethan]

But which one would you reccomend?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161315
I have a 4650 lying around and it can run games like L4D on max detail. The 4670 is better.