Oh yeah I definitely wouldn't be building until at least April. At first I wasn't sure if prices changed fast for PC parts, but after looking at my amazon wishlist that I made a couple days ago, half of the items changed prices (in some direction). I guess I should ask this question (that is, one about what parts I should get) a bit closer to when I'll actually be purchasing the parts. Thanks for the info!

@Jr14: Cool, thanks! Maybe it's just cause I've been playing on a meh laptop for 4 years, but I think I'll be okay not getting 60 FPS for everything.

As of right now:

MSI Computer Corp. Motherboard Micro ATX DDR3 1333 LGA 1150 Motherboards Z87M-G43

WD Blue 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 7200rpm Internal Hard Drive

Corsair CX Series 600 Watt ATX/EPS Modular 80 PLUS Bronze ATX12V/EPS12V 552 Power Supply CX600M

Intel Core i5-4690K Processor 3.5 GHz LGA 1150 BX80646I54690K

Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB Kit (4GBx2) DDR3 1600 (PC3-12800) 240-Pin UDIMM Memory BLS2KIT4G3D160​9DS1S00/BLS2CP4​G3D1609DS1S00

Of course this is still subject to change, and any suggestions would be great.

I'm building my first PC soon, and I'm on a tight-ish budget. I'm perfectly fine with not running things at ultra maxed out settings - as long as it's at least playable on high settings with no stutter. I'm mostly interested in playing Dragon Ball Xenoverse, the FF XIII trilogy, GTA V and games that are already out (pre 2015). My friend who's helping me build really wants me to get the 970, but the $100 less would really help me out. Plus, I hear of older cards running modern games just fine as well.

CHEAP, blue, and Pokemon on the same day...it's like Nintendo made this console for me 0=]

http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=dncwkr3&c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&model_id=xps-l702x

I'm getting a new laptop for college in a few weeks, and I was wondering if the specs on this are decent enough for gaming? I'm fine without having ultra high settings on the newest of games, but I just want newer games to be playable without lag or hiccups or slow down etc on at least medium. If this isn't too good, is there perhaps another laptop good for gaming in the same price vicinity?

I'm a real penny pincher so saving any amount money would be good. I'm off to college next year and I figure that an immense amount of graphical power wouldn't be all that necessary so I was thinking about upgrading this old PC my friend is giving me with a Radeon 6870 and just a Core 2 Duo or i3 since it only has a Pentium 4 currently. Would I get decent graphics on games like Fallout 3/New Vegas, Mass Effect 2, and Final Fantasy XI with the aforementioned CPU and GPU? My definition of decent is like the higher medium settings without any hiccups in gameplay. Thanks for your time

Super Mario 64. That game is still awesome

Case -COOLER MASTER Elite RC-310-BWN1-GP
PSU -SILVERSTONE ELEMENT ST75EF 750W ATX12V
CPU -AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition
MoBo -ASUS M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 AM3 AMD (for some reason adding a link for this won't work...it's on newegg though for $119.99)
RAM -Corsair XMS3 TW3X4G1333C9 - 4GB (2x2GB)
HDD -SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB
GPU -XFX HD-577X-ZNFC Radeon HD 5770 1GB

I don't necessarily want to run every single game at max settings, but at least fairly high. And I also want to confirm that all of these components are compatible. The parts total $744.93 and if anyone can make suggestions to this that can make it better or lower the price with equal performance they are welcome to. Thanks.

Thanks for the reply! I forgot to mention that I already have an operating system (the same one you mentioned actually) so that's all set. My parents have a broken eMachine in the garage...do you think that the DVD drive would work from that?