Originally Posted by
caskinsro
This is coming from someone that spent 9 years in schooling for this...
No, no and NO.
If you are going to do anything for a bf3 setup and you are on a VERY tight budget, do not use Intel, Do not use Nvidia.
For about 500$ you could easily make a solid gaming PC (Not high end)...
Use the AMD APU's, make sure its one of the top ones out, sinc that with a so-so graphics card (Radeon HD6550~), Mobo does not need to be anything special, just an F1 socket, Go with 8gb of G-skill 1600MHz ram... Power supply... 450 Watts. Not pretty for the PSU, but it is cheap and it will run everything perfectly fine.
Oh, Western Green drives, get a TB, shitty disk drive, dont matter there...Thermaltake cases can be bought for 40-60 bucks...
All in all... Around 540$ and you could still cut corners.
And it will play BF3 on Medium... Its not bad, but it will work, it plays, will still be quick...
For about 600 you could grab the AMD FX 6200 and an AM3+ Mobo (for 105$ you can get a solid one. Do not get any under it.) and the rest can be the same, maybe a smaller HDD and another SSD.
Boom.
Fast, Cool, Quiet, and all for under 600$
---------- Post added at 03:40 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:35 PM ----------
Gotta stop you here.
I5 2500k. Thats fine. Good processor, but overpriced...
Now here is where I wanna smack you.
GTX560?
NO. Just fucking no.
Specs of these cards are just terrible and they are a waste of money. Mem clocks are terrible, poor design and cooling... For the same price you could grab a 7770 and run circles around it... 159$... And it blows it away.
People need to stop looking at names on these things. Read the specs, view the benchmarks. STUDY BEFORE YOU BUY.
Not mad, but it is annoying when people just talking about things they have no idea about...
---------- Post added at 04:05 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:40 PM ----------
If you have no idea how to build one yourself, you can go to newegg and hit DIY Combos... Amd based systems for around 530$ and almost what I said earlier...