Build a $550 bare-bones gaming PC
Summary: Excellent question in today's hardware 2.0 mailbag:I want to upgrade my existing PC so it's able to play the latest games. What upgrades do you recommend? By the way, I'm on a budget of about $600 ...Let's take a look!
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This kit is garbage
Since you don't list a case, for the same price you can get a pc power and cooling psu, a motherboard that won't die in a week, 4gbs of ddr3 ram, an after-market cooler for your cpu, a radeon 4770 (which consistently outperforms the unit you've listed).
To people taking advice from this man, a few basic rules:
-Avoid AMD until they fix their parallelism issues. Runs fantastically *now*, won't outperform the same core 2 quads you can buy presently in 2 years, and no firmware update can change that.
-Never buy ECS
-Never buy BFG
-Never buy low-end gigabyte
-Buy Kingston, if you want defective, misleadingly labeled, high-latency ram that will likely be DOA
-Do buy Asus
-Do buy EVGA
-Do buy PC Power and Cooling
-Do buy OCZ
-Do buy Corsair
-Do buy antec (except PSUs)
And you would suggest