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Low-End Gaming PC

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FaBr001

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Hi there! So for the past few months, I've been saving money for a low-end gaming PC. I'm from the Philippines, and I can only buy parts from this website, http://www.dynaquestpc.com/. I don't need an OS and peripherals. Also, my monitor's resolution is 1920 x 1080. I have a maximum budget of ₱25500, and here are the parts I'm planning to buy.

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Any suggestions? I'll be buying the parts by the time that I have a final build. Thanks in advance! 🙂
 
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Looks quite good. If possible, get a standard 960 and not an ITX one, the small ITX cooler is a little louder. Also the power supply could be better quality. Let's see...

RAM - the cheaper Team Elite 1600 should be fine as long as it's 1.5V. ₱2500 for two.

GPU - Zotac GTX 960 dual fan model for ₱8770

PSU - well, the selection here is just bad. In the sub 500w category, there's nothing but junk apart from the low end Corsair VS and the fanless Seasonic. You'll either have to make do with the VS450 or spend another 1100 on a Seasonic S12II 520W with 5 yr warranty. It's definitely higher quality than VS450, more efficient and has more power to support future upgrades as well.
 
Well, the cheaper RAM saves ₱460, of which ₱270 goes to the dual fan GPU, leaving ₱190 towards the more expensive PSU which still costs ₱910 extra. But I agree it's worth it
 
4Gb of ram could actually be too little.

i would also remove the HDD and buy only a SSD. you can simply learn to NOT store every junk tv episode you download, and instead keep the software you need. 120Gb should be plenty for OS + games + one or two work software.
 
DigDog said:
4Gb of ram could actually be too little.

i would also remove the HDD and buy only a SSD. you can simply learn to NOT store every junk tv episode you download, and instead keep the software you need. 120Gb should be plenty for OS + games + one or two work software.
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120GB for OS and Games?

Skyrim and AC3 are ~100GB together. Nope nope nope.

RAM and HD space can be expanded in the future as budget allows though.
 
If you are looking to play current games like gta5/advanced warefare and anything in the future, you will want 8gb of ram.
 
You need at least an i5 and 8GB of RAM for modern AAA gaming. That i3 will begin to stumble next year and onwards. Hyperthreading is barely 25% of a real core no matter how good the Haswell arch is. As for the SSD if its the only drive 500GB would make sense.
 
Pretty sure he was planning to get 8GB of RAM all along, so I'm not sure why everyone is reiterating the need for that.

i5 is obviously a smart choice if budget allows, but for now, i3+GTX960 is fine - not perfect but any game is playable. What more can you ask for a low end gaming PC? One should not expect to even see an i5 in a low end gaming PC.
 
Skyrim comes on 1 DVD.

pretty sure AC3 is not 90Gb.

besides this is a BUDGET build, and it's a short budget too. my OS, sony vegas, quake, blacklight,minecraft +mods, CSGO, music and videos, comes to 52Gb. my main is still a 60Gb SSD.

i lived out of a 60Gb drive for five months.

now i added a 120Gb ssd and barely have anything in it. now i don't know these 50Gb games you speak of, but i suggest if you have a short budget, that you do not buy games that are 50gb in size.

life is hard. sometimes you need to make sacrifices. between the sacrifice of getting a small SSD, and no 50gb games, or buying a cadaver of a mechanical drive, and fill it with slow, hulking 50Gb games (can't begin to imagine the loading times on that), i chose the former.
 
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DigDog said:
Skyrim comes on 1 DVD.

pretty sure AC3 is not 90Gb.

besides this is a BUDGET build, and it's a short budget too. my OS, sony vegas, quake, blacklight,minecraft +mods, CSGO, music and videos, comes to 52Gb. my main is still a 60Gb SSD.

i lived out of a 60Gb drive for five months.

now i added a 120Gb ssd and barely have anything in it. now i don't know these 50Gb games you speak of, but i suggest if you have a short budget, that you do not buy games that are 50gb in size.

life is hard. sometimes you need to make sacrifices. between the sacrifice of getting a small SSD, and no 50gb games, or buying a cadaver of a mechanical drive, and fill it with slow, hulking 50Gb games (can't begin to imagine the loading times on that), i chose the former.
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Okay, I exaggerate a bit. My Skyrim folder (with mods) is 21GB.

Red Orchestra 2 is the biggest other single game I have, about 33GB for the single-player and multiplayer installations.

There are a few in the 20+GB range though.

My Windows directory is 39GB for some reason...
 
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but that's the beauty of owning a PC - you can buy an additional SSD from Amazon, have it the next day, plug it in and voila', extra space.

i'm sorry but i am never going back to mechanical drr---drr---drrrr--EEK---EEEEEK-ives.
 
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You need at least an i5 and 8GB of RAM for modern AAA gaming. That i3 will begin to stumble next year and onwards. Hyperthreading is barely 25% of a real core no matter how good the Haswell arch is. As for the SSD if its the only drive 500GB would make sense.
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No you do not, 8gb of ram yes I would strongly recommend in the future but he can get by for now. I remember 3 years ago when people were saying we will definitely need 4 cores and more vram well the vram part came true for the most part (I feel bad anyone who bought a 1gb 7850) but the dual core part only somewhat. An i5 is ideal yes but its faaaar from a minimum, the most unexpected thing I think is the biggest improvement with haswell came to core i3s holding there own when compared to i5s so he should be plenty fine for gaming for now.
 
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