Thread: The 200$ Build

Well, I love doing builds I'll take this time to advertise my site:
Choosing Components for Your Budget PC

Anyway, here is what I compiled for ya!
Phenom II X4 840 + GA-MA78LMT-S2 760G $99: Micro Center AMD Processor Bundle Savings
Seagate 500GB SATA III $40: Newegg.com - Seagate Barracuda ST3500413AS 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
Ballistix Sport 2GB DDR3 1333 $21: Newegg.com - Ballistix sport 2GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 Desktop Memory Model BL25664BA1339
Sapphire 5670 512mb DDR5 $70: Newegg.com - SAPPHIRE 100287VGAL Radeon HD 5670 (Redwood) 512MB 128-bit DDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

Total: $230

You can reuse an older DVD drive and the PSU, assuming HeavyG supplies that, is taken care of. All in all, The 5670 would provide enough power to play CSS above 60 FPS in fact, and even handle other games. As for the 840, it is just a renamed Propus 640 but it's a quad-core nonetheless and'll preform just fine. Don't worry SATA III is backwards compatible with SATA II.

Source: SATA 2 using SATA 3 cables?

Originally Posted by HeavyG

Send me a PM with your address. I still have the 500w PSU, although it hasn't been plugged in for about 2 years. It should still work.

Ditto for the E6600; just need your name and address.

New build:
GPU:
Micro Center - Galaxy 50SGH8HX3QMZ Geforce GTS 450 GC 1024MB GDDR5 PCIe 2.0 x16 Video Card 50SGH8HX3QMZ
Case:
Micro Center - Sentey Extreme Division Optimus GS-6000R ATX Mid Tower Case GS-6000R
HDD:
Newegg.com - Recertified: Western Digital AV RFHWD3200AVJS 320GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal AV Hard Drive -Bare Drive
Mobo:
Micro Center - ASUS P5G41T-M LX LGA 775 G41 mATX Motherboard P5G41T-M LX
Ram:
Either This:
Newegg.com - Team Elite 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500) Desktop Memory Model TED34096M1066HC7DC
Or
Newegg.com - G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model F3-10666CL8D-4GBRM
On the second ram sticks , their 1333 and on the mobo it says thats O.C. Im quessing that means overclock and is it risky?

Originally Posted by Savage

New build:
GPU:
Micro Center - Galaxy 50SGH8HX3QMZ Geforce GTS 450 GC 1024MB GDDR5 PCIe 2.0 x16 Video Card 50SGH8HX3QMZ
Case:
Micro Center - Sentey Extreme Division Optimus GS-6000R ATX Mid Tower Case GS-6000R
HDD:
Newegg.com - Recertified: Western Digital AV RFHWD3200AVJS 320GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal AV Hard Drive -Bare Drive
Mobo:
Micro Center - ASUS P5G41T-M LX LGA 775 G41 mATX Motherboard P5G41T-M LX
Ram:
Either This:
Newegg.com - Team Elite 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500) Desktop Memory Model TED34096M1066HC7DC
Or
Newegg.com - G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model F3-10666CL8D-4GBRM
On the second ram sticks , their 1333 and on the mobo it says thats O.C. Im quessing that means overclock and is it risky?

Never buy re-certified. Never better than the new thing.
Newegg.com - Seagate Barracuda ST3500413AS 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
Spend a little more, it's worth it rather than getting something that may fail on you at the worst time.

Galaxy isn't exactly the most TRUSTABLE COMPANY, I would not trust that MIR at all. The most trustable rebates would be these two IMO.
EVGA: Newegg.com - EVGA 01G-P3-1450-TR GeForce GTS 450 (Fermi) 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
Gigabyte: Newegg.com - GIGABYTE GV-N450OC-1GI GeForce GTS 450 (Fermi) 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card