Building a computer. Advice please!

[Pie Crust]

A conductive band that you put on your wrist and plug it into the wall. The AC are just fillers. The ground plug discharges any static you could have picked up. Very useful if you have carpets and especially if you're like me that walks around in socks.

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[Assistant]

This'll help.

[Rainzx¹]

A conductive band that you put on your wrist and plug it into the wall. The AC are just fillers. The ground plug discharges any static you could have picked up. Very useful if you have carpets and especially if you're like me that walks around in socks.

Or you can just touch a bit of metal before you start handling the parts.
Instead of buying something you may only use once.

[Aduioa]

This'll help.

I love you lol

[Aduioa]

New budget is $600
My father gave me $300. I am paying for the other $300.
But I'd still rather be around $500.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU:  AMD FX-6350 3.9GHz 6-Core Processor  ($128.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard:  MSI 970A-G43 ATX AM3+ Motherboard  ($65.91 @ Newegg)
Memory:  Kingston Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($64.99 @ Newegg)
Storage:  Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($54.98 @ OutletPC)
Video Card:  Zotac GeForce GT 620 2GB Video Card  (Purchased For $0.00)
Case:  NZXT Phantom (Black/Green) ATX Full Tower Case  ($105.98 @ Best Buy)
Power Supply:  Corsair CX 430W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($24.99 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive:  Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer  ($19.98 @ OutletPC)
Wireless Network Adapter:  Intel 7260HMWDTX1 802.11a/b/g/n/ac PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter  ($46.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $505.81
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-04-07 23:24 EDT-0400)

[Georges]

Don't get a wifi card that has way faster speeds than your connection is. It's be a waste of money.

Good PSU, I have it, it's pretty nice.

[Tokthree]

You don't need a hexacore CPU, a quadcore will be fine if you're looking to game on a budget. I wish I had gotten in sooner, if I had I would've told you to go for the $600 mark and, with the money saved from going down to a quadcore, buy a better graphics card and perhaps a slightly more powerful PSU to support it, maybe 500w just to be safe. PSU's aren't my particular area of expertise, however.

I honestly doubt you'll be able to do much, if any, gaming on a GT 620 in this day and age.

[Candy Apple]

I'm going to build the best pc i can in the lowest amount of money. I want to be able to play DayZ, Blockland with shaders and like idk GTA 5 when it comes out, anyone got reccomendations? I figured the topic is related.

[Aduioa]

I paid for my entire computer.

Case: $127.19
AMD Hexacore 3.9GHz: $139.99
Motherboard SATA 6Gb/s USB 3: $69.99
RAM 2x4GB HyperX DDR3 SDRAM DDR3: $64.99
Wireless Network Card: $46.99
Power Supply Unit: $44.99
1 Terrabyte HD: $59.98
Simple Optical Drive: $19.98

Excluding shipping, and other fees from this list. In total this cost me:
$572.97

You don't need a hexacore CPU, a quadcore will be fine if you're looking to game on a budget. I wish I had gotten in sooner, if I had I would've told you to go for the $600 mark

It's fine, I realized that. But I did some research about this and I found out there's not that much of a difference. Though it is a tiny scratch lower than a quad core, nothing really should be noticeable.

As for the graphics card. My Zotac I got for free, which leaves me room to upgrade.
I currently have a friend who is willing to sell me his Nividia GTX 470 for $75

Anyways. Everything on that list at the top of this post is paid.

[Nexus]

As for the graphics card. My Zotac I got for free, which leaves me room to upgrade.
I currently have a friend who is willing to sell me his Nividia GTX 470 for $75

I actually don't think $75 is worth it for that card.

[Georges]

One other thing, when you put on you CPU cooler, it WILL feel like your gonna break something, because it requires so much force. So be careful, but yes, it is supposed to be hard to put on.

[Aduioa]

I actually don't think $75 is worth it for that card.

What the forget?
Do some research.


http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-PCI-Express-Graphics-012-P3-1470-AR/dp/B003EEMFTI

One other thing, when you put on you CPU cooler, it WILL feel like your gonna break something, because it requires so much force. So be careful, but yes, it is supposed to be hard to put on.

Thanks for the tip. I will be very careful

[Writer The Wolf]

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit)

I... I want to stab out my eyes with fire...

[Aduioa]

I just heard that getting the CPU cooler on for AMD is a lot easier than Intel

[Writer The Wolf]

I just heard that getting the CPU cooler on for AMD is a lot easier than Intel

Depends on the cooler. I cut my hand on an AMD cooler once.