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Question

Gaming pc build

Aug 27, 2015 7:42AM PDT

Hey people, Im building a gaming pc under 300$ or 300$. I need help with this. Some people suggested me to get an intel pentium g3258 with a motherboard which supports overclocking, while some people suggested an apu(aa8, a10 etc.)
Please tell me which one I should go with, I wanna play csgo on high settings with 1080p res and atleast 100fps, and team fortress 2 with highest settings, 1080p and recording at the same time. I've not used any amd product till now, im really confused please help! also if you could add a 300$ build that could be fine for me, would be great. thankyou!
P.S I wanna play other games too, (GTA V, FC4, COD AW, BATMAN AK) would these run on a 300$ pc? Doesn't matter if low setttings, just playable fps like 60-70? I just want high on csgo and tf2 with recording and playable fps.

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I'm watching this one.
Aug 27, 2015 7:51AM PDT

I've yet to see a new PC for that price since the OS is 100 bucks and a display, keyboard and mouse would run at least another 100 bucks.

The CPU looks to be 70 bucks on sale so that's 30 bucks for the rest of the PC.

This will be amazing to find such a machine. I'm watching this thread.

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I am watching too.
Aug 28, 2015 7:42AM PDT

Whoever can do this is either a genius or......a thief.

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Seriously......
Sep 4, 2015 6:27AM PDT

I have the OS, Keyboard, Mouse and display already.
Need the hdd, ram, processor, gpu, motherboard and a case.

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If you can find that for the dollars listed.
Sep 4, 2015 7:35AM PDT

I'd like to see how you did it. Since the budget is extremely tight I'd scavenge a PC Case from trash bins.

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Budget
Aug 28, 2015 9:14AM PDT

It's tough to build much of a gaming rig for less than a "K" buck.
Your talking 1080p/high settings/100fps.
You might want to rethink your budget.
If you do build a rig for 300 bucks you won't be happy and you'll have wasted 300 bucks.

Your call.