Solved: Building my brother a PC

Draperc1991 · 14-Jul-2009, 05:36 AM #1

I've been thinking about building my brother a good pc for gaming for his birthday, he's been wanting his own computer for awhile. My question is, would the following be good enough for an under 800 dollar budget? Or do you have any other suggestions? Thanks for any help in advance.

Alkison · 14-Jul-2009, 05:49 AM #2

Is this a gaming PC?

Draperc1991 · 14-Jul-2009, 05:53 AM #3

He mostly games on the PC, so sort of. Think of it as a budget gaming PC.

Alkison · 14-Jul-2009, 06:13 AM #4

Okay, well I just said that because everything looks okay and then it seemed that you were spending a lot on the video card. Anyways yeah he should be fine. I mean that's nice that you're about to spend $800 on your brother.

dustyjay · 14-Jul-2009, 07:28 AM #5

well of the first three components on your list I would recommend nothing made by Rosewill, Cases are flimsy and cheesy. The power supply is crap. Motherboard probably will be ok. If yo are building a gaming cmputer you really need to spend some money on a good power supply. ANtec, Enermax, OCZ, PC P&C, Seasonic, Thermaltake, Corsair are good brands. You need Quality and reliability before you need a bargain here.

THe rest of the components I see no problems with. I would let someone who is a gamer give you better advice, someone like BG-0 can chime in with good match ups for gaming.

Draperc1991 · 14-Jul-2009, 08:03 AM #6

Ok, thank you guys very much for your help. I hope he loves it!

**crjdriver** · 14-Jul-2009, 08:44 AM #7

I would think about a different mb. MSI is mid to lower end in quality and they are often problematic. Next you do understand that the board you selected has onboard video and only two ram slots. This is pretty common with micro type boards. If you go with a full size board, you will have four ram slots.

Something like this Gigabyte board would be a better choice. It has the dual bios which comes in handy for gamers since they are quite often doing a lot of bios updates.

I agree that rosewill is the lower end of quality. I have done a few builds for people with the more expensive rosewill power supplies and they seemed to work OK however I would think about going with a FSP, PC Power&Cooling, Seasonic, or Corsair pw supply.

Draperc1991 · 14-Jul-2009, 11:55 AM #8

Ok, thanks again for your help.

Alkison · 14-Jul-2009, 05:30 PM #9

I know what you guys are saying but the guy is buying this as a gift, not a super rig from himself, I mean come on

dustyjay · 14-Jul-2009, 06:31 PM **#10**

The thing is still staying within budget, some of the components can be changed so that he won't have to spend time and more money later replacing something that could have been taken care of to start. What he listed will very probably work fine, but for gaming he is going to need a better power supply and the Rosewill case is not good for ventilation. And these were just suggestions based on experience with different brands of components.

Alkison · 14-Jul-2009, 10:42 PM **#11**

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Originally Posted by dustyjay

The thing is still staying within budget, some of the components can be changed so that he won't have to spend time and more money later replacing something that could have been taken care of to start. What he listed will very probably work fine, but for gaming he is going to need a better power supply and the Rosewill case is not good for ventilation. And these were just suggestions based on experience with different brands of components.

Understandable, I just still think its the budget that's why. I have a thermaltake armor MX+ and it is great for ventilation but cost me $120.

dustyjay · 15-Jul-2009, 12:31 AM **#12**

There are several Raidmax cases that are in the $39 to $49 range that are better cases. Not the best but better.

dustyjay · 15-Jul-2009, 12:36 AM **#13**

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811156208 this one would be better for cooling and it is kind of stylish too.

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