Okay, so you saw the R7 240 yesterday. Honestly, I don't recommend building that rig at all. You can get a lot better for your graphics card for $10 more. The R7 240 shouldn't actually exist, and the R7 250 should be the true bottom of AMD's new line. Let's get started.
Graphics card: MSi R7 250 OC - $91
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127763
This should be the real bottom end card. It won't go through all the technical stuff, but this is a lot faster than the R7 240. This card is the replacement for the Radeon 7750, which was a great budget performer. This will let you play a lot of games at good graphics at 720p, but it's not exceptional at 1080p gaming because it doesn't have GDDR5 RAM. It will be able to use AMD's Mantle API (which I will discuss later), which means it's performance will go up with supported games, like Battlefield 4 and Thief.
CPU: AMD Ahtlon X4 750k - $80
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113328
The Athlon 750k is a great budget CPU at less than $100. You could get the 760k for less than $100, too, but this will work just as well. Think of the 750k as an A10-5800k without the GPU on the chip. It's really fast, and will work well with this GPU.
Mobo: Asus A88XM-A - $85
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132045
Going with an Asus board again, cause they're very consistent. This board will again let you upgrade the CPU in the future, and supports a lot of RAM speeds. It'll go well with this system, and even supports up to 64GB of RAM.
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws 8GB 1600MHz - $79
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231314
The Ripjaws series has been featured on this site a lot, so we might as well use it again. It's fast, looks good, and is very affordable. I highly recommend it.
HDD: Seagate Barracude 1TB - $70
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148840
Finally, we've got a build with a Terabyte. I never put Terabyte drives because budget gamers aren't gonna be installing a lot of high capacity games, but this drive has a good deal on and can save $10 on your final purchase. It's a great deal, and Seagate makes some awesome HDDs.
PSU: Corsair CX430 - $45
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139026
Always get 80+ Bronze, and this is a really good one. This system won't be sucking too much power under a heavy load, and should even let us upgrade the GPU if we wanted to down the line, maybe to an R7 260X or even an R9 270.
Case: COUGAR MG100 - $30
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811553015
As always, this is the subjective component. This one just comes with the requirements. USB 3.0, Audio in the front, fan area for air flow. Looks like a nice product.
Total price: $469
So there we go. A better rig than the R7 250 build with about $100 more before tax and shipping. Honestly, I'll probably build a similar rig and sell it, just because it's a good budget gaming rig.
If you have an comments or suggestions, let me know.
Happy Gaming.
Oh, and my video game recommendation of the build is Red Orchestra 2/Rising Storm. The Red Orchestra series is one of my favourite FPS series of all time, and Red Orchestra 2 looks great and plays great. If you're sick of the Call of Duty style games, and don't want something as vehicle oriented as Battlefield, Red Orchestra 2 and Rising Storm, the Japanese expansion, may give you your FPS fix. They're on sale on Steam a lot, and they're also available on the Humble Store and GreenManGaming.
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