$700 Gaming PC

[fasterrunner]

This build is for my brother and was hoping to get some advice on what to change to keep price in his budget. Also decent affordable case and which graphics card to get. Not sure what I could switch out that would help save him some cash seeing that he currently looking at $667. Im also not entirely sure on CPU.

Mainly for playing games then general purposes pc stuff.

Think just need case and gpu. Thanks in advance for looking.



Newegg.com - ASUS M5A99X EVO AM3+ AMD 990X SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS

Newegg.com - AMD Phenom II X4 970 Black Edition Deneb 3.5GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Desktop Processor HDZ970FBGMBOX

Newegg.com - CORSAIR Enthusiast Series TX650 V2 650W ATX12V v2.31/ EPS12V v2.92 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC High Performance Power Supply

Newegg.com - CORSAIR Vengeance 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CML4GX3M2A1600C9B

Newegg.com - HITACHI Deskstar 7K1000.C 0F10383 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

Newegg.com - LITE-ON DVD Burner - Bulk 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 12X DVD+R DL 24X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM Black SATA Model iHAS124-04 - CD / DVD Burners

Newegg.com - Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit - Operating Systems

[flanzig1]

Cases are kind of a personnal choice due to the wide range of styles. Cases that are less that $50 are either a plain jane black or cheap junk. In the $50 to $100 range, Newegg does have some quailty name brand cases. Would have your brother look at cases on Newegg to find something he likes.
As for video cards, it will depend on what games he will play. Around $150 is probably the starting price for a gamer card.
As for cutting cost, dropping the CPU down one model could save about $25 and with the PSU, depending on the video card could drop to a 500-550w and maybe cut another $25.
The rest looks to be good, may be able to go to a lesser motherboard(less features) to cut costs.

[glc]

$700 gamer? Check the below linked thread for one I just configured:

Grandpa/Grandson low budget PC advise

Substitute an AMD processor and motherboard if you want, if you have money left in the budget you can up the video card.

[fasterrunner]

Thanks again guys!