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I'm not 100% amazing and versed in the aspects of computer building. (I can put everything together fine, I'm just not great with parts and finding what I want) That is where you guys come in, I've seen some of the great stuff you have put together for folks here and I wondering if yall can help out. I have around $1600-$1700 to spend and I want to play the newest games as they come out and possibly do some video editing and recording/live streaming. Maybe try and include a nice monitor and keyboard/mouse into the budget also? Side Note: I know that this is not something I would have to build myself, but does this look good? Is Cyber power even reputable? [url]http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/system/Gamer_Xtreme_5200[/url]
Prebuilts are terrible. They have numerous cons which you can find strewn across this subforum. I recommend something like this: [url]http://pcpartpicker.com/p/20VtE[/url] You can downgrade to a hyper 212 evo if you don't want to do some ridiculous overclocking or move over to water cooling. The fan on the graphics card is also not very good, but it shouldn't be a problem if you don't want to overclock the graphics card (and the 290X is currently the best you can get besides the 780 ti). You can downgrade to a 280X with better cooling and not have much of a loss. I didn't actually throw in the keyboard and mouse since that's a matter of personal preference. They have their respective megathreads in the Hardware and Software general discussion subforum. I personally recommend the G9X for a mouse.
[QUOTE=flayne;42834347]Prebuilts are terrible. They have numerous cons which you can find strewn across this subforum. I recommend something like this: [url]http://pcpartpicker.com/p/20VtE[/url] You can downgrade to a hyper 212 evo if you don't want to do some ridiculous overclocking or move over to water cooling. The fan on the graphics card is also not very good, but it shouldn't be a problem if you don't want to overclock the graphics card (and the 290X is currently the best you can get besides the 780 ti). You can downgrade to a 280X with better cooling and not have much of a loss. I didn't actually throw in the keyboard and mouse since that's a matter of personal preference. They have their respective megathreads in the Hardware and Software general discussion subforum. I personally recommend the G9X for a mouse.[/QUOTE] The link is broken due to an accidental backslash, i fixed it in the quote. You should consider getting a 120/144hz monitor with the 290X, otherwise you're not going to notice a lot of a performance upgrade compared to a 300$+ 280X Other than that, there's not really anything i can comment on, as flayne's build is pretty much the best you'll get
Actually, you should look at the newish R9 290 instead of the 290X. It's RSP is 400$ instead of the 290X's 550$ and the performance difference is marginal
[QUOTE=RandomGamer342;42850096]Actually, you should look at the newish R9 290 instead of the 290X. It's RSP is 400$ instead of the 290X's 550$ and the performance difference is marginal[/QUOTE] It's a great card for the price, but I would wait for a non reference card if you get one of them, such as the TwinFrozr, Windforce, or Direct CU II.
I don't understand why the highest end cards never get reference cooling. You would think they would have priority, but look at the titan. There isn't a single non-reference card available. All things considered it's probably because they know people will buy $70 aftermarket GPU coolers.
Thanks for the build flayne, that looks exactly what I was aiming for but just couldn't get together by myself. But do any of you know a good monitor that would compliment the system?
[QUOTE=ColdWave;42853029]Thanks for the build flayne, that looks exactly what I was aiming for but just couldn't get together by myself. But do any of you know a good monitor that would compliment the system?[/QUOTE] I'd choose between [URL="http://pcpartpicker.com/part/benq-monitor-xl2420te"]monitors[/URL] like [URL="http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-monitor-vg248qe"]these[/URL] [editline]13th November 2013[/editline] It should fit in your budget if you downgrade to a R9 290, the difference is tiny and not worth nearly 150$
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