Budget Gaming Rig

[Selquist979]

This rig is pretty special to me, I had been gaming on a very old core 2 duo machine and really needed something more for these new dx11 games coming out. So with a pretty small budget I set out to create this machine, she is dubbed "The Beast" not for her raw power but sheer force! . It's really not that impressive of a rig, nothing too showy. The case chosen was not the greatest, and I am thinking of gutting it and moving it over to a Corsair c70 Arctic White, so thoughts on that would be appreciated Some of the parts came over from the previous build.


Specs:
CPU: i5-2320-Sandy Bridge
CPU Cooler: Coolermaster Hyper 212+
Mobo: AsRock Pro3 Gen3 z68
RAM: Mushkin Enhanced Radioactive 8GB kit(2x4GB)
PSU: PC Power and Cooling Mk3 600w
HDD/SSD: 320GB Western Digital Blue/Intel 520 120GB
GPU: EVGA GTX 770 Superclocked w/ACX
Case: DiabloTek Evo
Fans: Front-Red LED 120mm/Top-Corsair AF120mm Perf/Rear-Corsair AF120mm Perf.


Case w/all the stickers/badges.

The guts!

Up close on that new gpu! and that awesome white PSU.

The cable management is about as good as it can get with soo much limited space on the other side, I have crammed about all I can back there within reason. So a case upgrade is def on the horizon. Hope you all enjoyed it. Sorry for the subpar quality of the photos!

 

[BPRSM]

Looks good, could do with bit better cabling

 

[Tripp]

budget rig an you bought a gtx770??? your idea of budget is a bit bizarre haha, nice though mate just tidy your cables up

 

[Selquist979]

budget rig an you bought a gtx770??? your idea of budget is a bit bizarre haha, nice though mate just tidy your cables up

Yeah, it was a splurge but! it will last a good long time. Going to attack the cables again today

 

[iBeInspire]

Definitely wouldn't be calling this a budget build myself... Not that much of a looker, but she's packing a punch underneath xPP

 

[remember300]

ah well if you have done it over time a budget build sure ends up gaining some mass near the end of a build lol.
The only thing is a c70 is pretty darn large compared to that case. if you took the hdd cases out i think that would fit inside my c70. the only advantage is if you move it about abit the handles come in handy. but if thats not an issue then the side has plenty of space for your stickers im more than happy with my c70.

 

[symi]

any chance you could change the ram heatsinks to white and put a white fan on the cpu cooler... that would look sexy.