Hi everyone!
I need some good suggestion for my friend's PC. He has a tight budget of 3k. He wanted to get 3k including a monitor. I told him that may need to fork out extra money for the monitor. Also, he wanted to purchase a PC which can last him longer than his current PC with 8600GS GPU.
Budget:
2.5k - 3k
Purpose :
Gaming, Multimedia Entertainment
Monitor resolution:
TFT 17inch Monitor (Going to upgrade as well)
Game or software:
Guild Wars 2, Assassin Creed trilogy, BF3, all the latest Call of Duty series, latest Hitman, Far Cry/Crisis (if possible)
Personal Preference Brand
Nvidia for GPU. Any brand should be ok as long it isn't troublesome to update BIOS or driver. If Nvidia is too expensive, may suggest ATI but preferred is Nvidia. Intel CPU. The rest can be anything.
Location:
Puchong
Planning to go Lowyat this weekend.
Hardware that will be reuse from old rig
Supposed to be HDD but, it's full of movies and data so need to get a new one for games.
As I looked from the 1st post with the suggested rigs, I thought of using this suggested spec for him.
Intel i5-3570 RM639
Gigabyte H77M-D3H RM319
Palit Leadtek GTX670 RM1299 http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=2386667&hl=
Kingston Value Ram 4GBX2 RM128
WD Blue 1TB HDD RM254
FSP Hexa 500W RM149
Xigmatek Asgard Pro/CM Elite 311+/Strike One Advance [casing] RM170
Any DVD rom/writer RM60Total: RM2963 + 55
Then I realized it is 3k without the monitor.
So I asked him if he interested with:
Intel i5-3470 RM579
MSI B75MA-P45 RM224
Leadtek GTX670 [reference] RM1120 http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=2386667&hl=
Kingston Value Ram 4GB RM64
WD Blue 1TB HDD RM254
FSP Hexa 500W RM149
Xigmatek Asgard Pro/CM Elite 311+/Strike One Advance [casing] RM170
Any DVD rom/writer RM60Total: RM2565 + 55
I'm worried that his PSU with 500 isn't enough. Should he get better PSU? May I know kindly know if you have any better suggestion to get?
Thank you for your trouble!