Decided to build cheap gaming pc

Adacas

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So yeah as the title say I want to change my old pc into something more advanced.

This is what i decided to put into my pc:

CPU: AMD FX-6300
GPU: ATI RADEON HD7850 1gb
RAM: DDR3 Kingston 4Gb 1600Mhz
HDD: Samsung SpinPoint 3.5" 500gb
MotherB: MSI 970A-G43
DVD-ROM : Asus E-Green
CASE+PSU: Cooler Master Elite 250 Black Midi Tower

Is this case good? I won't go any more expensive I don't even know if I'm picking the 7850 maybe I'll just change it to 7790.
Give me your ideas :)
 
What games are you planning to play?

To me, you need 8GB ram, an ssd and alot more vram on a graphics card than 1gb if you're thinking about playing anything released from -1 year ago onwards
 
What games are you planning to play?

To me, you need 8GB ram, an ssd and alot more vram on a graphics card than 1gb if you're thinking about playing anything released from -1 year ago onwards

+1 for this
 
All the new games. I think I'll go with Gigabyte Radeon HD 7790, 2GB then and Add more Ram later. What do you think about that? And ssd 32gb enough only for OS?
 
please list the games, 'all the new games' doesn't really cover it fella.

If it's BF4, you're gonna need quad/hexcore cpu, 2gb vram + (3gb preferred), and you'll need 120GB ~250gb SSD for it to be worth doing. (also bf4 beta is 64bit only and it's still struggling on some systems with mid level cpu's)

Watchdogs specs latest is saying 64bit OS, 8gb ram MINIMUM and quad core with HT or higher

Cod's latest spec sheet is (albeit probably not finalised, and might be fake) 64bit OS, 8gb ram, 50GB of drive space GTX780 for top settings...

64Bit gaming seems to be the order of the day with the new consoles and all the latest hype surrounding minimum specs, so you'll need more than 32gb for OS, windows takes up 30GB on it's own and that's already over the 'keep 10% free' limit you should be enforcing on yourself for SSD's

I hate to say it dude but this spec just isn't going to cut it for 'all the new games'. With the consoles now in x86 mode with more ram, the recommended average PC gaming spec just went up A LOT for the upcoming titles.
 
Guessing you're working to a budget here. Maybe if you let us know the sort of money you have to spend and what bits you need to purchase we can help out with the spec. Better still, head over to the New build advice section.
 
What about this?

- AMD A10-6800K
- Cooler Master Hyper T4
- Asus F2A55-M
- Fractal Design Core 1000 USB 2.0
- 8GB 1866MHz RAM
- Sandisk (tend to be cheap) 60/64GB SSD
- Western Digital Caviar Blue 1tb
- Corsair CX500(m)

Now, obviously in this config it's going to be pretty bad for gaming, but it will work at low settings with plenty of games. This gives you all the time you want to save up more and buy a proper graphics card. The PSU easily allows this.
 
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