AMD Athlon II X3 440
Radeon HD 5750
MSI 760GM-E51 AM3 AMD 760G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
Kingston 2GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3
Samsung F3 500GB SATA II 3.0Gb/s
Lite-On iHAS424 DVD burner
Rosewill TU-155 II 500
Windows 7 Home Premium
Roswell Wireless PCI card
Now I'm trying to go for a $500 price range. Yep, it goes over it, but not by a whole lot. I can't spend anything more than $550, that's my limit. What do you think of my selections so far?
I got some suggestions from...
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,28…
but the video card they suggested was faulty so I switched to the Radeon HD 5750 which is even more powerful and is Direct X11 ready. I changed the HDD since I'm not exactly comfortable with Seagate and the Samsung HDD is not only more reliable but cheaper as well. I also noticed the motherboard only supported DDR2 ram and I wanted to just go ahead and make the upgrade for a little more cash so I wouldn't have to later. So I have 2GB of DDR3 ram and I'll upgrade that shortly after I build the PC.
I guess the only thing I'm really wondering about now is the case. Is it my best option? I do like the fact that is comes with a 500 watt psu out of the box, that at least saves money.
Radeon HD 5750
MSI 760GM-E51 AM3 AMD 760G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
Kingston 2GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3
Samsung F3 500GB SATA II 3.0Gb/s
Lite-On iHAS424 DVD burner
Rosewill TU-155 II 500
Windows 7 Home Premium
Roswell Wireless PCI card
Now I'm trying to go for a $500 price range. Yep, it goes over it, but not by a whole lot. I can't spend anything more than $550, that's my limit. What do you think of my selections so far?
I got some suggestions from...
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,28…
but the video card they suggested was faulty so I switched to the Radeon HD 5750 which is even more powerful and is Direct X11 ready. I changed the HDD since I'm not exactly comfortable with Seagate and the Samsung HDD is not only more reliable but cheaper as well. I also noticed the motherboard only supported DDR2 ram and I wanted to just go ahead and make the upgrade for a little more cash so I wouldn't have to later. So I have 2GB of DDR3 ram and I'll upgrade that shortly after I build the PC.
I guess the only thing I'm really wondering about now is the case. Is it my best option? I do like the fact that is comes with a 500 watt psu out of the box, that at least saves money.