• PC for a brother
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So my brother has asked me to price up a couple of potential builds for him, intended as a PC that'll be able to play most games for the next 4-5 years with decent graphics; nothing super fancy, he doesn't play stuff like Crysis or Battlefield, but here's what I've come up with. [img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5976204/options.jpg[/img] It's all Australian pricing, by the way. If any parts here are known to be incompatible, unreliable, or just generally a bad deal, please let me know! I've been out of the PC building loop for years, since I upgraded my current PC, so I'm a bit rusty at this.
You don't need a CPU cooler since you cannot overclock the 4590, you need a K version for that, I suggest the 4690 instead, the stock cooler works fine and is quiet, it comes with thermal paste as well. More than 8GB of RAM isn't really needed for gaming. Having a SSD gives a nice performance boost so you want to have that in your build for sure. Unless your going to have multiple monitors, a very high resolution monitor or a 120Hz monitor anything past a GTX 760 / R9 270X is going to be a waste of money.
I came in here hoping you were trying to swap a computer in return for a brother... Doesn't seem to be the case but uhh [I]if you've got a spare bedroom and a PC you don't want anymore, call me[/I] For the low end though, if he won't be playing cutting-edge stuff and wants to play for the next half decade then shift down to a 760 and add some more RAM instead
If you wont be playing any labor intensive games I would go with the lowest option, The only thing I would change is I would go with an i5 4670k and a 128gb ssd instead of the 1TB SSHD
A 760 or 270x can't quite max out all new games at 1080p. I would however say the 290x isn't worth it over the 290 for a majority of people [editline]26th August 2014[/editline] Also WD Greens are terrible drives that are extremely slow and prone to quick failures.
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