Are you a serious gamer and want to build computer which can give you outstanding performance in your budget ? Well that’s tough but not impossible. All you have to do is smart shopping of hardware and I am going to help you out in that. If you buy pre-assembled Gaming Computer than it will cost you more than 1000$. In this article I have list of hardware which are well enough to run your favorite games for next few years. By referring this article you can build best gaming computers under 500 $.
At the time of building computer you must ask to yourself that what type of work you are going to do with it because answer of this question will help you in making your desired computer. In this case answer is quite simple , For gaming. When you are building gaming computers one hardware plays significant role and that is Video Card or Graphics Adapter. No other hardware makes as big difference as video card to gaming performance , so you have to buy best as per your budget. To build best gaming computers under 500 $ you should spend around 150$ which is about one fourth of total money we are spending.
If we are assembling computer for high performance than we need more money and with less money we will not get desired computer. We have to make smart choice of video card in such way that we can also buy other required hardware. You don’t have to spend too much as AMD Radeon HD 6670 delivers tremendous performance at its price. I suggest you the one manufactured by XFX for which you have to spend just $69.77.
We have to choose our rest components wisely as 500$ is not that big amount. We will not think for things beyond our budget as it may lead to increase in our budget. Next thing which we are going to buy is CPU case and Power supply( SMPS ). Cooler Master Sileo with 500 watt power supply unit will be best as far as our budget is concerned. It don’t have design as other gaming CPU has but it has enough room to fit our hardware and priced at $99. As we have deadline that we have to build best gaming computers under 500$ we should only focus on best hardware rather than on design of our computer.
Next comes CPU in list to build best gaming computers under 500 $ and when we talk about CPU first name which hit our minds is Intel. But Intel is still not good in budget processors. We are building gaming computer and after Video Card , CPU is the second important thing to be selected wisely. We need here best out of our money so we picked AMD Athlon II 640. It is not most powerful among all available in market but has solid quad core chip running at 3 GHz and priced at $94.99. Now we want motherboard which can provide best options with our hardware. We also need motherboard which also gives options to upgrade to higher configurations in future and taking all this in consideration we found perfect mother board in our budget. Gigabyte GA-970A-D3 will fulfill all our needs it provides slot to upgrade your video card or processor , 4 slots of RAM to expand it upto 32GB and at price $84.99. It also has USB 3.0 and supports latest bulldozer AMD chip to enhance in future.
Other remaining parts which are recommended under 500$ budget are 4GB of Kingston HyperX Blu RAM at $29.99 , 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black hard drive at $82.00 and basic Lite-On DVD Burner at $19.99. Now as we have purchased all necessary parts and hardware you can build best gaming computers under 500 $ which will run your favorite games for this year and upcoming few years. As we have selected components taking future in consideration we can upgrade our computer at any time in future.
Below is list of all hardware with links of sites giving you best deals on respective hardware.
Hardware To Build Best Gaming Computers Under 500 $
(Prices accurate by date April 13 , 2014 )
- Components (pricing accurate as of October 5, 2011)
- Case and Power Supply: Cooler Master Sileo 500 RC-500-KKR3-GP ($99.00)
- Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-D3 ($84.99, with rebate)
- CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 640 ($94.99)
- Memory: Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB ($29.99)
- Video Card: XFX HD-667X-ZHF3 ($69.77)
- Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar Black (1TB) ($82.00)
- Optical Drive: Lite-On DVD Burner iHAS124-04 ($19.99)
- Total: $479.74
After purchasing this hardware you can build best gaming computers under 500 $. Now all you have to do is build computer as we have helped selecting you hardware in your budget of 500 $. Fit all hardware properly and enjoy gaming on your new computer under your budget. If you have any questions feel free to ask me in comments I will get back to you as soon as possible.
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