So I found a $400 budget build on pcpartpicker and I was curious if it was actually good, or if I should keep looking. If this build isn't very good for the price, I'd of course love some help finding a decent gaming computer for around this price.

http://pcpartpicker.com/guide/8BrxFT/399-bang-for-buck-pc-build-intel-g3258gtx-750ti

I primarily want to play that new ARK: Survival Evolved game, LFD2, Mw2, Cod4, Path of Exile, and other random crap.

I live in the us, I don't need a monitor, keyboard, or a mouse.

Please keep in mind this is the one part of computers I don't really understand, so any help would be amazing.

Whats your price range?

I'd prefer around $400 ish, but I'd be willing to go up to $500

This post was edited by LetsReplay on Oct 4 2015 09:40pm

I was also looking at this computer.

http://pcpartpicker.com/guide/xM32FT/500-bang-for-buck-pc-build-intel-i3-4170gtx-950

I'd go with the second build but upgrade to a cheap locked i5. Dual core gaming can suck sometimes, I've been there with the g3258 and some games were unplayable, even at 4.7 ghz

I wasn't able to play witcher 3 with my g3258, sure the game ran and sometimes I got lucky and it wouldn't freeze too much but most of the time the game would freeze for 2-5 seconds at a time every minute or so. I had an on screen display and it happened exactly when cpu load would reach 100%. This happened regardless of clock speeds and as soon as I upgraded to a 4690k I never froze again.

It's called the Pentium lyfe, ppl rely too much on benches instead of rl applications lol

Exactly, at the same time though I don't regret that pentium purchase. Was fun to learn overclocking on and it's performance for 85 Canadian bucks is pretty impressive. Aside from witcher 3, I played heroes of the storm on it at max settings and it ran great, but couldn't handle listening to music on SoundCloud while playing. At the end of the day I had fun with that thing and only lost $30 cad reselling it