Build a Gaming Computer for less than $600?!

I've been looking at posts saying you can build a gaming computer for $600.00 so I had to put that to the test. Now I did supply some items for the build and bought the other items from Micro Center.

Here is what I had on hand for the build:

1) Power Supply (eXtreme Power Plus 500 Watt ATX 12V Power Supply) $55.00
2) Graphics Card (Radeon HD 5750 1024MB DDR5 PCIe 2.0 x16 Graphics Card) $125.00
3) Hard Drive (200gig, 7200rpm) $25.00 (yeah you can find it for that price if not cheaper)

Here is what I ended up buying:

1) Mother Board (Asus M4A89GTD PRO/USB3) $160.00
2) Processor (Phenom II X2 555 Black Edition) $99.00
3) Case (AZZA Spartan 101 Mid Tower ATX Case) $50.00 (after mail in rebate)
4) Ram (Kingston 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1600 $100.00 (after mail in rebate)

Total build = $614.00
Ok, I went $14.00 over my budget. If I would have orderd the parts from off the web I'm sure it would have been under budget but I wanted to get the build out of the way and decided to buy from the retail store.

This mother board is made for overclocking! Not only over clocking, with this motherboard you can easily unlock 2 cores on the Processor which now makes it a 4 core processor. When unlocked it is equal to (or comes close to) the Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition. Now you can't beat that for the price! You can over clock this processor, you CAN over clock this processor (I had to say it twice)! Just google it and you'll see what I'm talking about!

the case is nice and comes with 3 fans. It has plenty of room on the inside, so much room that I had to get an extension so that the top headphone wire could be connected to the mobo.

On this build I run Win 7 Ultimate with dual monitors. I experience no lag on high settings when playing World of Warcraft, Allods Online, Crysis, Halo, and other games. Multitasking is a breeze. Boot up is quick.

Later I am going to add another Video card for CrossFire and 4 more gigs of ram. And that should complete the build.

For anyone looking to build there own gaming computer, I would with out a doubt recommend this build!