How To Make a Gaming PC That Can Compete Against The PS4 and Xbox One For $399

Graphics Card

In the end, it all boils down to what you put at the heart of your gaming system: the GPU. Since this is a gaming PC build, it is recommended that you allocate the largest chunk of your budget for the Graphics Processing Unit. An MSI AMD Radeon HD 7770 1GB GDDR5 has a sufficient 1Ghz GPU clock with 1 Gigabyte of GDDR5 memory and a bandwidth of 128 bit.

While there are GPUs that have a 192 bit interfaces and even better, they cost a bang too. The MSI HD 7770 is sufficient to run most games at high settings at decent frame rates. It is even capable of outperforming the GTX 650 at most times when it comes to 3D rendering in gaming.

The downside is that the card requires a 6pin PCIe power plug that not all power supplies have. So you’ll need to bear in mind this fact and check thoroughly before you go in for the HD 7770 or any other card for that matter.