• Building a gaming rig from scratch for 1300 dollars
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This has been an ongoing process for me, I even got a laptop a few months ago and returned it upon realizing I hate laptops. Before that I had at least three builds planned but scrapped due to complications. Now circumstances are better and will allow for this to go way smoother. All I need is a cherry list of cherry parts for a cherry tower. as soon as I complete that list and recheck it a few times I wish to have all the parts ordered by my birthday (the end of this month). And as seeing as procrastination was the problem earlier, I plan to get this done as soon as possible. Within reason of course, the one thing I don't want to do is rush. I don't need a new screen [sp]or at least not yet, so keeping a bit of money aside for a new screen might not hurt, but the screen needs to be of a good size and high refresh rate as shit monitors kill my eyes[/sp] or need to think about any other parts besides the actual tower itself. I have nothing salvageable from my old PC, not even the networking card. Tl;dr I would like build suggestions for a 1300 dollar tower with it kept in mind that some of that money may later go towards a better screen. Also I can't seem to find that site where you can build your own PC. Also I favor intel processors and higher end nvidia chips. I also do NOT like waiting, so I'd like for the main drive to be a very large solid state drive. Maybe a second normal hard drive as well. [editline]16th October 2013[/editline] Oh yes, and this will be a gaming rig. As for screen size lets assume I have a high end monitor. But right now it's some dell ultra sharp 1280x1024. But again, probably going to get a new some sometime, just not now. < there should be an American flag there. My location is America.
Ah yes sorry, America. I thought the thing would include it in the post under my stats but it fucked up
Beautiful. I appreciate that very much. I don't mind the smaller solid state cause its probably big enough to keep both the operating system And the games I play the most on it. I'm guessing getting a larger ssd would break the bank. I have been googling for that build your own PC website and still cannot find it. It's the site that has a blank outline with a space for each part and you can select that part and put it in and organize everything beforehand. And it has aggregator scores and prices and all that. If anyone knows what site I'm talking about I'd be thankful for a link. It would make organizing this on an iPad much easier. The build you gave me straight up looks solid. From what I can tell I probably will use exactly what you suggested. For the sake of going about this in a smart way I'm still open to suggestions, opinions, and I may have more inquiries of my own
$150 for a 2TB HDD? No thanks. A WD Blue is fine, a black is unnecessary.
As in I won't need the space? Cause as it stands I filled a one terabyte external hard drive in a matter of months.
Cheaper and better: [url]http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1PHgq[/url] Can be overclocked, has a better video card, has a slightly faster (although perhaps less reliable), doesn't have rediculously overpriced RAM which will not give you noticable performance boost. It also saves you enough money that you can move up to a bigger SSD.
[url]http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1PFRs[/url] [url]http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1PHWi[/url] Probably going with this [url]http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1PICO[/url] Also I avoid ATI.
[QUOTE=NeoSeeker;42548589][url]http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1PFRs[/url] [url]http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1PHWi[/url][/QUOTE] Those are both pretty bad. Poor choice in motherboard and processor on the 4570, single channel ram without a heatsink that is somehow more expensive, a caviar black drive, an Asus GTX 760. Moving to an evo is ok; although, the 840 pro is faster.
[QUOTE=NeoSeeker;42548589][URL]http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1PFRs[/URL] [URL]http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1PHWi[/URL] Probably going with this [URL]http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1PICO[/URL] Also I avoid ATI.[/QUOTE] Flaynes build is better. ATI doesnt exist anymore, its now AMD. Why all the AMD hate anyway? THey make the best bang for your buck GPU's at the moment.
Yeah but why is it a poor choice
edit: @ taipan They have a historical reputation for bad drivers/issues which causes people to just get nvidia because they prefer the reliability in the software. I'm not saying that it's currently the case or that nvidia's superior, but that's the general reason people avoid ATI/AMD GPUs. Instead of getting a 2tb HDD, get 2 1TB HDDs and put them in RAID 0, just because. [url]http://pcpartpicker.com/part/western-digital-internal-hard-drive-wd10ezex[/url] edit: Because the B85 chipset doesn't support a few nice features (overclocking and RAID are a couple of those) and the 4570 isn't as good as the 4670K (especially if you want to overclock it).
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;42550599]But if he isn't over clocking does he really still need the more expensive unlocked version? [/QUOTE] If he's not overclocking, then he doesn't, no. But He hasn't said that he doesn't want to overclock it, and the extra options on the unlocked MoBo are nice. But yeah, if you're wanting to avoid overclocking then go ahead and drop the cooler, get a locked version of the processor and a MoBo that supports everything you need/want (if you want to RAID or anything special like that, if you don't you can get a cheaper MoBo, but make sure it supports anything you might want to do in the future.) Though I have to vote for Flayne's build, it'll let you squeeze the most you can out of the build without having to replace parts if you feel it's lacking in power and decide to OC it.
[QUOTE=NeoSeeker;42546648]As in I won't need the space? Cause as it stands I filled a one terabyte external hard drive in a matter of months.[/QUOTE] Sure, you can fill 2 TB but your choice is unnecessary in terms of cost efficiency.
How?
I believe he means your choice in the WD Black, instead of a blue.
NVidia has about the same amount of driver problems as AMD these days, there's no reason to get a nvidia card(the equivalent would be 770) when the AMD one is cheaper [I]and[/I] faster Brand loyalty shouldn't be influencing your decisions as it'll lead to you being worse off
[QUOTE=RandomGamer342;42562009]Brand loyalty shouldn't be influencing your decisions as it'll lead to you being worse off[/QUOTE] But... my brand! [IMG]http://static2.fjcdn.com/comments/MY+BRAND+_a6a9d1115e531ec584484a06766994f2.png[/IMG]
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