Need advice for 500-700 buck system.

[SgtSlaughter89]

Guys,

I am looking for advice. I am getting married (to a Detroit Teacher) in two months so I am basically broke with all the wedding expenses. I have a Intel q6600 and a Radeon HD 4850 that worked AWESOME for the last 5 years. My goal is to reuse the following and update my desktop.

Keep the following.
1. Mid-Tower ATX Case
2. 600 Watt Corsair PS
3. DVD R-W drive
4. 256 Micron SSD (Sata 3)
5. Sata Cables
6. DVI Monitor
7. 1983 PS2 IBM Keyboard
8. USB Logitech Gaming Mouse

I need your guys advice replacing the following with my tax return. I love playing games on steam and Mechwarrior Online.
1. Intel Quad Core q6600
2. LGA 775 Mobo with 4 gigs DDR2 RAM.
3. Radeon HD 4850

I am guessing that I will have 500 bucks from my tax return. What would you guys recommend that I purchase?

Does the following look like a good PC?
1. A10-7850K Kaveri 4 cores/Radeon R7 - 185
2. 16GB DDR3 Memory 2 dimms. - 165
3. ASrock FM2A88X Extreame6+ Motherboard 105.

Is this a good system replacement?

 

[ahenkel]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4570 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($196.98 @ Best Buy)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H87M-HD3 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($88.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: G.Skill Sniper 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($69.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Video Card ($179.99 @ Microcenter)
Total: $535.94
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-02-18 16:34 EST-0500)

 

[Ken g6]

ahenkel's build is good, but I think I can do a little better on two things:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4570 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($199.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: Asus H81M-K Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($56.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Sniper 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($69.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Video Card ($175.66 @ Newegg)
Total: $492.63
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-02-18 20:00 EST-0500)

I switched to a cheaper motherboard, and swapped in an overclocked (and more overclockable) 750ti.

 

[Charlie98]

What exact Corsair PSU do you have... if it's 5 years old, you might want to think about replacing it...

 

[monkeydelmagico]

Do you live near a microcenter? What resolution is your monitor?

Welcome to AT!

 

[SgtSlaughter89]

Do you live near a microcenter? What resolution is your monitor?

Welcome to AT!

Thank You.

I live 4 miles from a microcenter. My monitor is a 19 inch 720 gateway that gets the job done.

 

[monkeydelmagico]

You are a lucky builder. The CPU/motherboard combinations at microcenter are very hard to beat.

Unfortunately, you really need a better monitor. 1080 is the standard now.

i5 4670k $180
ASRock Z87 Pro4 $70 after combo discount
Crucial Ballistic 8gb $60.-
Evga GTX 660 $180.- After rebate

Thats $490.- add an AOC 24" for $130.- and you are rocking for well under the $700.- you had for max spending.

 

[Charlie98]

I live 4 miles from a microcenter.

Good heavens!!! :awe: I'm 20 miles away from mine and that's bad enough... 4 miles? Whoooo!

 

[ahenkel]

Good heavens!!! :awe: I'm 20 miles away from mine and that's bad enough... 4 miles? Whoooo!

I would slap my mother for a microcenter within an hour of me.

 

[SgtSlaughter89]

Good heavens!!! :awe: I'm 20 miles away from mine and that's bad enough... 4 miles? Whoooo!

We also have a Krispey Kreme, Apple and a Lego store in the area. It is not a bad at all. :biggrin:

 

[sm625]

I wouldnt bother with 16GB. Windows is inherently so unstable that it will probably crash if you have more than 8GB of RAM in use anyway so why bother with 16GB? That's a bit tongue in cheek but even so the money is better spent elsewhere.

I would go with this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131981 It has the PS2 port you obviously want. With two sticks of 4GB you're at $220. As for cpu and gpu you should spend at least 50% more money on gpu than cpu. So you can buy the cheapest i5 then put the rest into gpu and still be under your $700 cap.

It is a shame nvidia has not released a more powerful maxwell gpu yet. Finding a gpu will be the tough part.

 

[pcsavvy]

Microcenter has great combo deals. I live 73 miles away from one and in LA traffic not great. When I go I make sure that I know exactly what I want and buy only that otherwise I have to make a return trip. The traffic sucks but the store is great. All that electronics to peruse at one's leisure.

 

[mfenn]

I wouldnt bother with 16GB. Windows is inherently so unstable that it will probably crash if you have more than 8GB of RAM in use anyway so why bother with 16GB? That's a bit tongue in cheek but even so the money is better spent elsewhere.

I would go with this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131981 It has the PS2 port you obviously want. With two sticks of 4GB you're at $220. As for cpu and gpu you should spend at least 50% more money on gpu than cpu. So you can buy the cheapest i5 then put the rest into gpu and still be under your $700 cap.

It is a shame nvidia has not released a more powerful maxwell gpu yet. Finding a gpu will be the tough part.

The ASRock Z87 Pro4 also has a PS/2 port for the keyboard.