Cheap ram on that end, same ram that would come in pre-built
Personally I wouldn't go with a AMD processor, and in no way is that comparable to what came in my tower. A Intel i7-2600k is way above and beyond that in so many ways. Considering they are both quad core is equal. But the i7 has hyper threading giving it 8 threads... It far outweighs anything in its $400 price range IMO
for processor only.
What Brand is your video card?
Probably not strong enough to play some of the games I do on high settings.
You also didn't mention software. $200 for windows brings your rig to almost $1100. So we pretty much spent the same and Mines better
I agree with what alot of what ya'll are saying though. Especially with pre-builts that are less than $1000 dollars for the tower alone. But we are gamers, we are on a gaming website
We shouldn't even be thinking about these cheapos.
What I'm talking about is pre-built gaming computers... You really can't beat the price. Of Course there are going to be a million examples of bad choices for pre-builts. I'm not suggesting any of these. lol
I guess I'll just talk for my tower only.. Theres no way it could be priced out for anything less than $2100 at the time I purchased it 9 months ago. So the $1200 (tower only, I already had the monitors, a keyboard, a logitech gaming mouse, and 7.1 soundblaster speakers.) I paid for it is a smoking deal. Just can't be beaten.
I have spent alot on the other components though.
$400 on the HD 1080p widescreen and $750 on the sony 26" gaming monitor.
Logitech mx580 (i think?) mouse - $100
Logitech g35 headset - $140
Soundblaster 7.1 speakers - $300