BUDGET BUILD

Enjoy 1080p gaming without breaking the bank

TOTAL $881

H270M Bazooka MSI $95 Kaby Lake has landed and the 270 series chipsets with it. MSI’s Bazooka H270M is a perfect fit for our new CPU. Pentium G4600 Intel $88 Two cores, four threads, and a lot of single core IPC performance. This core performs just as well as an i7-7700K in games. GTX 1060 3GB SC EVGA $170 EVGA’s small form factor GTX 1060 packs as much power as last gen’s GTX 980, ensuring you hit that 60fps. Fury Black 8GB @2400 HyperX $68 DDR4 packs higher speeds, better energy efficiency, and larger capacities. 8GB is still perfect for most games, too. EVGA 500W 80PLUS Certified ATX12V/EPS12V EVGA $36 A reliable PSU with enough juice to run your CPU and a reasonably power-hungry GPU. CS1311 120GB SSD PNY $53 It’s a budget offering, but for $50 and with sequential reads and writes of 550 and 520MB/s, it’s hard to argue with. Caviar Blue 1TB 7200rpm Western Digital $50 One terabyte of old-fashioned hard storage is the perfect home for all of your media, backups and AAA titles. Neos Bitfenix $45 The Neos provides decent airflow, good support for 3.5-inch hard drives, and a fairly painless build experience. VS247HR 60Hz 1080p Asus $100 1080p resolution, 60fps—it’s a monitor made for PC gamers. Coupled with the RX 480, playing on this will be silky smooth. K30 Corsair $60 It may not be mechanical, but it’s still a classy act for any would be gamer looking to build themselves a sweet entry later. Rival 100 SteelSeries $30 SteelSeries’ Rival lineup is ideal for those looking to get a quality gaming mouse at a respectable price. HyperX Cloud Kingston $76 Our favorite gaming headset, and it happens to be as cheap as plenty of inferior cans. A good buy for any gaming rig.