I have 2000$ And im going to build a gaming PC with it. But i tried to come together with one and it was too expensive. Can someone put together a 2000$ gaming PC?
Preferred site is newegg.
Heres one my friend built for himself, you can change out the case if you want.
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Do you want to spend all 2 grand or do you just want a sweet rig, because for general purpose stuff I'd say you cap at around 1500 USD. After that you hit heavy diminishing returns. Then there's things to consider like i5 vs I7. Chances are you don't need an i7. Are SSDs important? Do you want BluRay? We need some details, because you have lots of room to work with.
IMO, go with a single monster card over SLI. The [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121634"]asus 680 brick of bludgeoning +9.[/URL] is a very high end quiet card. Unless you want 3d where you can allocate one card per eye, SLI isn't the most reliable thing in the world.
[QUOTE=Zephyrs;37986028]Do you want to spend all 2 grand or do you just want a sweet rig, because for general purpose stuff I'd say you cap at around 1500 USD. After that you hit heavy diminishing returns. Then there's things to consider like i5 vs I7. Chances are you don't need an i7. Are SSDs important? Do you want BluRay? We need some details, because you have lots of room to work with.
IMO, go with a single monster card over SLI. The [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121634"]asus 680 brick of bludgeoning +9.[/URL] is a very high end quiet card. Unless you want 3d where you can allocate one card per eye, SLI isn't the most reliable thing in the world.[/QUOTE]
Just a question but, where are you getting SLI not being reliable?
30 seconds on google turns up billions of problems with various titles having spasms with dual card systems. It's better than it used to be, but there are still a number of games that just shit themselves on SLI setups.
On Nvidias side it's much better, but ATIs microstutter isn't my idea of fun. If I'm paying 2 grand for a system, I expect it to run exceedingly smoothly, and microstutter makes stuff almost unplayable for me. I personally have no bad experiences with dedicated one GPU for each eye, but I haven't done this extensively since I don't have that sort of equipment.
The other con, albeit less important of one, is that in order to upgrade, you must get a bigger pair of cards. By just getting a fat card to begin with, you can get an even bigger one later, or just get a second one, assuming the drawbacks of SLI aren't going to be a problem for you. In the long run that generally saves money.
[QUOTE=Zephyrs;37986300]30 seconds on google turns up billions of problems with various titles having spasms with dual card systems. It's better than it used to be, but there are still a number of games that just shit themselves on SLI setups.
On Nvidias side it's much better, but ATIs microstutter isn't my idea of fun. If I'm paying 2 grand for a system, I expect it to run exceedingly smoothly, and microstutter makes stuff almost unplayable for me. I personally have no bad experiences with dedicated one GPU for each eye, but I haven't done this extensively since I don't have that sort of equipment.
The other con, albeit less important of one, is that in order to upgrade, you must get a bigger pair of cards. By just getting a fat card to begin with, you can get an even bigger one later, or just get a second one, assuming the drawbacks of SLI aren't going to be a problem for you. In the long run that generally saves money.[/QUOTE]
Huh, I see. I guess the games I play don't really have that problem. Then again, all I really play is FPS games.
if you are into dual screen why not have the best graphics card for the game screen and a decent one for other screens, makes sense to me instead of sli
Most high end graphics cards support 3 or 4 monitors now.
something else OP needs to tell us is if we are including monitors, keyboards, and anything else in the price.
Sli is fine. You only hear about the people complaining about sli.
[QUOTE=QuikKill;37986888]Sli is fine. You only hear about the people complaining about sli.[/QUOTE]
Fine or not, I would advice getting one 670 because it will run annything you throw at it atm, and get the second one later when you need it and it gets cheaper.
200$ saved and you wont notice the difference.
Depends what resolution, but yea. I had to get another 670 because mine was so high. I'm just tired of people bashing something they have no experience with.
[QUOTE=Zephyrs;37986028]Do you want to spend all 2 grand or do you just want a sweet rig, because for general purpose stuff I'd say you cap at around 1500 USD. After that you hit heavy diminishing returns. Then there's things to consider like i5 vs I7. Chances are you don't need an i7. Are SSDs important? Do you want BluRay? We need some details, because you have lots of room to work with.
IMO, go with a single monster card over SLI. The [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121634"]asus 680 brick of bludgeoning +9.[/URL] is a very high end quiet card. Unless you want 3d where you can allocate one card per eye, SLI isn't the most reliable thing in the world.[/QUOTE]
I would say $2K is the absolute maximum tipping point before price/performance diminishes a lot, but I'd definitely agree with shaving off $500 nonetheless.
ASUS P8Z77-V PRO- $209
[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131819[/url]
Intel Core i7-3770K- $330
[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116501[/url]
COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 EVO- $30
[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103099[/url]
(2) ASUS GTX670- $460
[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121659[/url]
CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB)- $50
[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233142[/url]
Kingston SSDNow V200- $160
[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820139951[/url]
CORSAIR HX Series HX750-$145
[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139010[/url]
Case: Estimating $100
Total without SLI: $1,492.93(You honestly don't have to SLI the GTX670 right now, it will run current games completely fine on max settings so maybe SLI it in the future when the card is cheaper and if you want you can spend the extra cash on another ssd drive or a faster one because by the time you decide to SLI the GTX670 will be a lot cheaper.)
Total with SLI: $1,952.92
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