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I been considering building a PC for some weeks now. So i got a budget of 12000 DKK (Around 2000 Dollars) I do not know much about PCs so what would a build that can run Battlefield 3, Call of Duty Black Ops 2 and Ghosts and Garry´s Mod optional?
This will be able to run all of those games on ultra easily, but if you want a $2000 build it will kinda be overkill. [url]http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1QlGl[/url]
To put this in perspective, a computer under $1,000 will be able to run most games on med-high, if not max. You really don't need a powerful rig for games, unless you're running like 2-monitor 1920x1080 res.
[QUOTE=Npc_Hydra3;42567294][url]http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1QlGl[/url][/QUOTE] This is a good build, if you're wanting to spend the extra cash get a nice SSD to throw in there too. The general go-to is the Samsung 840 Pro series, $220 can get you the [url=http://pcpartpicker.com/part/samsung-internal-hard-drive-mz7pd256bw]256GB version[/url]. You could also get another 1TB WD Blue drive and put them in RAID 0 to improve your HDD's read/write speeds too, or if you're really wanting to blow some dough put a couple [url=http://pcpartpicker.com/part/western-digital-internal-hard-drive-wd5000hhtz]velociraptors[/url] in raid instead of caviar blues.
If your budget is $2k, there honestly is no reason not to go for full SSD Considering a computer of around $1k can pretty much max everything right now and into the foreseeable future. If you go full SSD then you get awesome load times and better performance in games that require lots of HDD caching/loading (like planetside 2) and generally everything runs smooth in the OS. Also you could probably go for a top end video card to easily run a fat 27" 120hz high end monitor too
SSDs are great for loading times but I wouldn't recommend storing everything on them, that's way more expensive than it needs to be. It's not really worth it for games you'll play only a few times, and pictures and video don't benefit from it, honestly the only things that really benefit significantly enough to justify the cost are things that constantly load either lots of data a lot (large games), or get accessed a LOT (The Operating System). You can of course put other things on them that you use a lot (video editing software and the like, if you really use them a lot), but it's not really worth the cost to store everything on them.
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