Gaming pc for Battlefield 3/everyday on medium to high settings gaming for $600

[Donthink]

Hi I am a first time builder and I need a little help on building the gaming machine. I have looked at some custom ones online (dino pc) but not shoor if I am getting good deal any help with this would help a lot.

What I need:

CPU : at least 3.0 gh
Ram: no less than 500gb
Mother bord : best for money
Graphics card : at least 1gb
DVD drive : any
Power supply : room for upgrade

Also please take into account cost of operating system.

Is this possible for under 600$ please anyone help me

 

[PP Mguire]

Medium to high BF3 for under 600 with OS is going to be almost impossible unless you are playnig at a res of like 1280x1024.

 

[Mischa]

Medium to high BF3 for under 600 with OS is going to be almost impossible unless you are playnig at a res of like 1280x1024.

Plus there is no way he can get 500gig of ram into that budget

But yeah, what PP said. Unless you can find some amazingly cheap deals somewhere your going to have to save up a little longer.

 

[PP Mguire]

Plus there is no way he can get 500gig of ram into that budget

But yeah, what PP said. Unless you can find some amazingly cheap deals somewhere your going to have to save up a little longer.

Ha, I didn't even notice that.

 

[Trotter]

Newegg.com - Rosewill R102-P-BK 120mm Fan MicroATX Mid Tower Computer Case

AMD A6-3670K + AMD Performance Edition 4GB (2 x 2GB)

Western Digital Caviar Blue WD5000AAKX 500GB + LITE-ON DVD Burner

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit + ASRock A75M-HVS FM1 AMD A75

Newegg.com - Antec EarthWatts Green EA-430D Green 430W Continuous power ATX12V v2.3 / EPS 12V 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC Power Supply

Newegg.com - EVGA 01G-P3-1556-KR GeForce GTX 550 Ti (Fermi) FPB 1GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

Total is $586 inc. shipping

 

[PP Mguire]

That 550ti isn't going to play medium to high settings smoothly.

 

[Trotter]

That 550ti isn't going to play medium to high settings smoothly.

Probably not, but my old GTX260 could play it smooth enough on low settings so it should deliver decent enough that way.

 

[PP Mguire]

GTX260 can play high at 1280x1024 so that is why I was saying up there 600 would get you high settings on a low res monitor. A 6000+ with my 465 at stock chugs medium at 1080p.

 

[Donthink]

ok thank as you can probably tell i am a noob in this field

this looks good thanks

but where is the cpu

 

[Trotter]

The second link is a CPU/RAM combo, an AMD A6-3670K FM1 quad CPU and a set of AMD 2x2GB 1600 RAM.

NewEgg's combos are only available for a limited time so if you wait very long it will be unavailable and we will have to start over.

If you can push your budget an extra $10 I would go with this PSU:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371016

550W will give you enough headroom to be able to upgrade your GPU later and not have to buy a new PSU.