Buying gaming pc

[IronMexican]

Hey sons. Looking to spend around a thousand bums Ina pc to play games like skyrim, and Borderlands 2. I was thinking about building one, but that's too much extra for me right now. If I want to, I could upgrade later. Any recommendations? Looking online is overwhelming.

[Sense]

Hey sons. Looking to spend around a thousand bums Ina pc to play games like skyrim, and Borderlands 2. I was thinking about building one, but that's too much extra for me right now. If I want to, I could upgrade later. Any recommendations? Looking online is overwhelming.

You're buying a gaming PC?

Please tell me you're going to build it... with that much cash you could have a good set up that will last you a few years.


If you BUY a gaming PC you're more than likely going to overpay.

[IronMexican]

I know det, but its sort of overwhelming having to think of everything I'd have to buy and them put it together. I guess it would be better so I could save a little money and use that towards my audio needs.

[ElNono]

GoodOdor bought one of those iBuyPower gaming PCs being sold at NewEgg like 2 months ago... you can ask him if he's pretty happy with them. I think he spent about that much.

[ElNono]

I know det, but its sort of overwhelming having to think of everything I'd have to buy and them put it together. I guess it would be better so I could save a little money and use that towards my audio needs.

- Case, preferably bundled with a 700W+ power supply
- Motherboard
- CPU
- RAM
- HD or SSD/HD
- Video card
- If you don't already have them: Keyboard, Mouse and Monitor

[IronMexican]

I guess I'll jut build one. I can buy like one or two parts a week to make it less hard in my check, too. So what should I be looking for?

[baseline bum]

I guess I'll jut build one. I can buy like one or two parts a week to make it less hard in my check, too. So what should I be looking for?

That's honestly a bad way to build a computer, as prices almost always go down with time as new shit is introduced. Save the money and then buy all at once to get the maximum bang for the buck tbh. Tom's Hardware was a great resource when I was first started building computers. Maybe check this article from a couple of years ago:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/build-your-own-pc,2601.html

It's really easy once you do it once. I'm sure youtube has to have some good step by step videos.

One piece of advice: bigger is better with cases. It's a pain in the ass to fit everything together in a small case. Cases with easily removable hard drive cages are fucking awesome too if you think you'll be upgrading a lot over the years.

[GoodOdor]

GoodOdor bought one of those iBuyPower gaming PCs being sold at NewEgg like 2 months ago... you can ask him if he's pretty happy with them. I think he spent about that much.

Very happy with it sons, thank you:toast

here's the link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883227382

Looks like it's out of stock for the moment though....

[leemajors]

That's honestly a bad way to build a computer, as prices almost always go down with time as new shit is introduced. Save the money and then buy all at once to get the maximum bang for the buck tbh. Tom's Hardware was a great resource when I was first started building computers. Maybe check this article from a couple of years ago:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/build-your-own-pc,2601.html

It's really easy once you do it once. I'm sure youtube has to have some good step by step videos.

One piece of advice: bigger is better with cases. It's a pain in the ass to fit everything together in a small case. Cases with easily removable hard drive cages are fucking awesome too if you think you'll be upgrading a lot over the years.

wouldn't hurt to buy RAM or an LED monitor right now at least, they are dirt cheap and i believe the market is quite saturated atm.

[baseline bum]

It's usually a bad strategy for the most expensive components (other than monitor) in the system though: video cards and CPUs. Then again, I haven't built a system in about 2 years now, so maybe the game changed?

[ElNono]

Highly recommend grabbing an SSD for the OS... 128GB should do... then a separate hard drive for the bulk of your data...

[ElNono]

I recently updated by office box, and this is what I purchased:

- CPU: Intel i5 3550 Ivy Bridge ($198.99)
- MOBO: Gigabyte GA-Z77M-D3H ($108.99)
- RAM: Super Talent DDR3-1600 8GB [2x4GB] ($44.99)

Had a $15 coupon, and including shipping ended up being $351.66

Already had monitor, case, power supply, keyboard and mouse from my old Core2Duo box...

For a gaming rig with your budget the difference would be:

- Get the top i5 processor: 3570k ($222.99)
- Get better RAM... G.Skill Ripjaws (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231308) 7-7-7-18 are even cheaper than the cheapo ones I bought now. ($41.99)
- A good video card... some people swear by AMD, other people swear by NVidia... hard to recommend anything here, but anything in the $250 range will probably fly for what you want to play (ie: NVidia GTX 560 Ti - $224.99)
- Because you're getting a good video card, you might need to upgrade your power supply. A modular, 850W power supply (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817153106) will set you back around $100 bucks.
- A Crucial M4 128GB SSD (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148529) is going for $109.99
- A 2TB Hard Drive is another $100

All this stuff + the motherboard above, and you're looking at $908.95

If you need a case, that might just be it for your budget.

Eventually, if you need to trim something, the SSD is optional, but highly recommended.

Depending where you live and if they charge taxes or not, my go to places would be newegg.com or superbiiz.com (I'm not related to either site, they just have good prices/deals/service).

Just my 2c.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103961

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128514

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231314

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139010

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125418

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811235030

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227727

and/or

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148912

needs some more peripherals but that will probably get you 60 fps on just about anything you can throw at it.

[IronMexican]

dets all nice, but it's 12 hundred combined.

[leemajors]

I recently updated by office box, and this is what I purchased:

- CPU: Intel i5 3550 Ivy Bridge ($198.99)
- MOBO: Gigabyte GA-Z77M-D3H ($108.99)
- RAM: Super Talent DDR3-1600 8GB [2x4GB] ($44.99)

Had a $15 coupon, and including shipping ended up being $351.66

Already had monitor, case, power supply, keyboard and mouse from my old Core2Duo box...

For a gaming rig with your budget the difference would be:

- Get the top i5 processor: 3570k ($222.99)
- Get better RAM... G.Skill Ripjaws (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231308) 7-7-7-18 are even cheaper than the cheapo ones I bought now. ($41.99)
- A good video card... some people swear by AMD, other people swear by NVidia... hard to recommend anything here, but anything in the $250 range will probably fly for what you want to play (ie: NVidia GTX 560 Ti - $224.99)
- Because you're getting a good video card, you might need to upgrade your power supply. A modular, 850W power supply (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817153106) will set you back around $100 bucks.
- A Crucial M4 128GB SSD (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148529) is going for $109.99
- A 2TB Hard Drive is another $100

All this stuff + the motherboard above, and you're looking at $908.95

If you need a case, that might just be it for your budget.

Eventually, if you need to trim something, the SSD is optional, but highly recommended.

Depending where you live and if they charge taxes or not, my go to places would be newegg.com or superbiiz.com (I'm not related to either site, they just have good prices/deals/service).

Just my 2c.

I have 16GB of the ripjaws, and I like em. A note on them though, the heatsinks on top can interfere with certain CPU fans, like mine since it is not low profile:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103065

It's an easy fix though, you can slide the plastic fan housing up on the heatsink to give a little extra room.

[IronMexican]

I am not sure I would get an nvidia graphics card. I have one now, and it seems to get the nvlddm.sys error whenever I play football manager.

[ElNono]

I have 16GB of the ripjaws, and I like em. A note on them though, the heatsinks on top can interfere with certain CPU fans, like mine since it is not low profile:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103065

It's an easy fix though, you can slide the plastic fan housing up on the heatsink to give a little extra room.

If he's not going to overclock, the fan that comes with the cpu should be ok.


I am not sure I would get an nvidia graphics card. I have one now, and it seems to get the nvlddm.sys error whenever I play football manager.

You can always go for an AMD 7870 like Fuzzy pointed out, or at the same ($250) range as I posted, the 7850...

[vander]

ram is dirt cheap, so don't risk it, get Micron (Crucial) RAM

also, don't know if you care about stuff like power efficiency, but the AMD 7850 and the Nvidia 670 are easy on the power supply.

[IronMaxipad]

Go with the first build

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?hl=en+_US&key=0AvaYhPmP5kwadHZsOW9QVFRkZEpzcUplak5zZFUyYnc&hl=en+_US&gid=1

You could even get away with the $700 build on this page: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?hl=en+_US&key=0AvaYhPmP5kwadHZsOW9QVFRkZEpzcUplak5zZFUyYnc&hl=en+_US&gid=3

Depending on what games you want to play. You could always update the Graphics card later.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

dets all nice, but it's 12 hundred combined.

yeah so forgo go the SSD. Witht hat much VRAM there won't be a need to load many textures after the first time and your os will still take a couple of mins.

[The Reckoning]

i bought an asus the other day and couldnt be happier with it. laptops ftw.

[MannyIsGod]

I never bought my computer in the spring but I am going to build one in a month or so. Hope the HDD prices have come back down some.

[TDMVPDPOY]

buy a better sound card if ur using expensive speakers setup or headphones....

whats the point of buyin expensive headphones to listen through a on-board sound card...u will hear the difference...

[IronMexican]

I don't even think I'llbe buying a soundcard since I plan on getting a DAC and AMP to pair with my Sennheiser HD 650's. Well, all of that is a dream as this point. I bought a new gfx card for this shitty pc to hold me off for a while. Going to try and wait for tax time and build a 15 hundred dollar rig, or maybe even save that much by the end of the year. I sort of wanted a car, cause bitches love cars, but idk.

[Sense]

I don't even think I'llbe buying a soundcard since I plan on getting a DAC and AMP to pair with my Sennheiser HD 650's. Well, all of that is a dream as this point. I bought a new gfx card for this shitty pc to hold me off for a while. Going to try and wait for tax time and build a 15 hundred dollar rig, or maybe even save that much by the end of the year. I sort of wanted a car, cause bitches love cars, but idk.

bitches dont love 1500 cars.