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[jmtx86]

Budget OC build, its time for a new setup. I have about 500 to spend on a Mobo, CPU, Ram, and video card. Im going with water cooling so I need something that ill have a lot of room to play with. I need something thats gonna run most graphically demanding games well. My budget is sort of tight being that I have a project car in the drive way that needs my attention (evo).

LMK what you guys think is a good mobo/cpu /ram combo that would allow me to do what I want. If you could keep the cost under 350$ that would be great!

TY
-John

[blafrisch]

IMO it'd be money much better spent on a $500 PC than a $350PC and $150 water cooling setup.  With a $350 you are going to get nothing but crap parts that won't be able to OC anyway.  Even with $500 on just PC parts I would not say that you will be running the most graphically demanding games well.  Your budget aim should probably be about $750 with air cooling.

[jmtx86]

well i guess water cooling just went out the window, i guess ill have to try to do 750

[blafrisch]

$750 with WC or without?  I can recommend something very good now for <$750 without WC.

*EDIT*

This is what I put together real quick:
http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=8736592&WishListTitle=For%20jmtx86

You could probably get a cheaper CPU, case, and hard drive.

Part I would definitely not change: power supply.

[bliq]

Oh, I don't know- $500 for a CPU, mobo, video and RAM?  You'll obviously want to spend most of that on a video card- easy- the $269 Radeon 4870 (currently even has a $20 rebate)

Asus P5K SE board for $79 (or ECS P35 board for $69 less a $15 rebate)

E7200 $119 potential OC to 3.8GHz at 1600FSB.

2GB of DDR2-800 RAM can be bought for $20 after rebate. can handle 1600FSB.

this'd be just over $500 without rebates, just under $500 with rebates.

[FlipinFin]

Who ever it was but u said u cant make a good build under 500 lol. Heres my mobo and cpu  im getting next month with the rest of my rig

 heres a sh*t part for under 90

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103818 lol

Another sh*t part under 65 bucks

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157176 lol

now do the math after that

 y do people think they have to get top of the line sh*t like asus mobo who have the most opened box mobo lol maybe except for the video card ati also that cpu under 90 has 2 hidden cores  ur getting a quad core for under 90 bucks that beat most quad cores under 100 bucks lol forgot to mention cpu is am3 socket with a 6mb l3 cache lol mobo is am3 socket that can unlock them hidden cores for cpu  with 2 pci x16 2.0 with ddr3 1600 for under 65 lol so whoever it was y u telling him to get ddr2 memory lol enless this post is old. dont applogize for being so blunt. also theres upgradable methods of building a bad azz rig. Did some  of u forget he was on a budget price lol

[urgannagru]

Wow, commenting on the prices in a 1.5 year old thread. I hate to be this blunt but read the forum rules, learn grammar, and don't curse so much (I don't care about cursing but some people do).

[FlipinFin]

didnt c date posted careless about grammer when that is a sick build for pcu and mobo