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    Default Building a new computer with $600 - $900

    I currently have $600 saved up to replace my crappy 2002 prebuilt crappy computer. My brother is coming home to visit the family within this month so I can ask him to chip in few hundred dollars but no more than $300. The less the better so I can spend only a maximum of $900. This is going to be gaming PC, hopefully good enough to play some high requirement games.

    Phenom II X6 1055t
    Asus M4A87TD
    4 GB Viper II RAM
    Radeon HD 5770
    320GB Hard Drive
    700W PSU

    I'm still looking for a case and I think I need to buy an optical drive. I think the price for all of these should be under $800-$900. This will be my first time building a computer so I don't know what to do. Furthermore, I don't know anything about computers. I am completely blank about computer hardware and don't know how to read the difference between them.

    I was doing a little research and these are the parts I came up with. I'm still not confident about my ability. Are there any changes I should make?

    My friend suggested I get a 10k RPM hard drive to store my programs and OS and a 500GB for music, files, and documents. I think that's overboard isn't it?

    EDIT: Tax and shipping will push it to about $1000. Anyway I can cheapen this? Otherwise, I'm gonna have to push for this somehow.
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    I would probaly put that power supply down to 600w or 500w if you really want to cut corners, 5770 requirements I'm pretty sure only need 500w, I'd say 600w is good or 550w.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Xenthydos View Post
    I would probaly put that power supply down to 600w or 500w if you really want to cut corners, 5770 requirements I'm pretty sure only need 500w, I'd say 600w is good or 550w.
    Actually, given the right brand, that PC will even run on a 400W. But the PSU will burn out quickly, sooo... Get a good 500W-er.

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