I'm not to keen on building my own from scratch, I would rather save the effort. The website I'm looking at is Ibuypower.com which looks like the easiest to customize your pc (unless you all recommend a different place). I know alot of people on these boards are in the IT field and know alot about computers aswell as play alot of games, and since you have good taste in basketball teams I can trust your advice. http://www.ibuypower.com/Store/2011_Paladin_Dr._I ^^Go to that link and customize one that will fit my needs below, when done to the right there is a print option, click it and copy/paste to this board so I can go do the same configuration to buy it. I have a budget of around 1500-1600 (could go a little higher if it is worth it). I will usually use it for video games however I am also into film and editing and so forth. Graphics are important I want to be able to play all of my video games on the highest settings with no hiccups if possible. The games I play or will be playing or my family members will be playing when they visit are: Starcraft 2 Civilization V WOW The Total War series Dragon Age 2 Call of Duty: Black Ops The Sims 3 Series Fallout New Vegas Fable 3 Star Wars: The Old Republic Crysis 2 Diablo III Mass Effect 3 Elder Scolls V: Skyrm BioShock: Infinite and none but not least Cake Mania: To The Max! (j/k) I haven't read all specs but I would assume that Total War Shogun 2 will have the most intensive program and the recommended specs are: Recommended Specs * 2nd Generation Intel Core i5 processor (or greater), or AMD equivalent * 2GB RAM (XP), 4GB RAM (Vista / Windows7) * AMD Radeon HD 5000 and 6000 series graphics cards or equivalent DirectX 11 compatible graphics card * 1280x1024 minimum screen resolution * 20GB free hard disk space Please help me out thanks alot everyone! (my total budget is around 2000/2100 but I want to buy a nice new monitor so however much I go over the 1500 cuts into that.
"Building" a computer is not very hard at all. I don't like the website you linked for a budget build because they don't list AMD processors. I would wait a little while before buying any gaming system though because Sandy Bridge will come out very soon and blow everything away.
Sandy Bridge CPU's just came out today and they should be what you buy. I'm about to build a system based off of one - just trying to wait for a few reviews on mobos from real users. Microcenter is having sales on SandyBridge CPU and CPU/mobo combinations btw. If it weren't a snowy winter wonderland in Dallas, I'd head over there now.
ASUS DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS Black SATA 24X DVD Burner http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827135204 Thermaltake Armor A90 Black Steel / Plastic Gaming ATX Mid-Tower Computer Case VL98521W2U w/ 850W W0319RU Modular Power Supply http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811133177 Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST31000528AS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148433 Acer AT3265 Black 32" LCD Monitor Built in TV Tuner http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009269 G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory ( three units) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231314 Intel Core i7-950 Bloomfield 3.06GHz LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115211 Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 1-Pack for System Builders - OEM http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116754 OCZ RevoDrive OCZSSDPX-1RVD0080 PCI-Express x4 80GB PCI Express MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227597 EVGA SuperClocked 012-P3-1572-AR GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 EVGA 132-BL-E758-RX LGA 1366 Intel X58 3X SLI ATX Intel Motherboard http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.580366 Comes in at $2038 with 24 gb ram and a super fast pci-e ssd for your OS install and a 32 inch monitor with tv tuner.
I will make you one that can run all of those on the highest setts (with well over 100 FPS) for half the price. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103849 AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Processor - $229 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130568 EVGA GTX 460 - $229 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131402 ASUS Motherboard AM3 $98.99 (you can try searching for a better/cheaper one) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136073 Western Digital 500GB $50 (you don't need more than this, and you will never notice the difference between the 16MB and 32MB cache so save the $10) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...0231277&cm_re=ddr3_ram-_-20-231-277-_-Product G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB RAM - $50 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119068 $51 Case http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...m_re=power_supply_unit-_-17-139-005-_-Product CORSAIR 650W PSU - $90 (try to find one that's cheaper) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827135204 ASUS CD/DVD Drive- $20 http://secure.newegg.com/Shopping/ShoppingCart.aspx?Submit=view Grand Total: $813.92 You may want to take a look at these for the CPU and GPU http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2010-gaming-graphics-charts-high-quality/Left4Dead-2,2472.html http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/...s-update-1/3DMark-Vantage-1.0.2-CPU,1398.html You can thank me later.
Shopping cart works with cookies, so I doubt he'll see what you've picked out if he clicks the link... I get my own shopping cart. Also, you didn't list a video card and your total is ~500. Something is missing. It might be a video card. He needs a video card to do games. With video. and a card. videocard
Me personally, instead of buying a revo drive, id rather put my money into another video card using crossfire. buy 2 and forget the revo drive: XFX HD-687A-ZNFC Radeon HD 6870 1GB 256-bit DDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card with Eyefinity
This build is pretty spot on, you could opt for Sandy Bridge but overall it doesn't sound like your video editing or anything that the CPU matters for, it's all about GPU for gaming.
That is an option and it's not my money being spent However, I would prefer the snappy-ness of the ssd over raw fps in Civ5. No matter what he chooses... he should not spend 230 dollars on a gtx460 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130597 $180 with $20 MIR
Well you just got two pretty awesome shopping lists. One that gives you more performance and the other is a AMD based build that is good for cheap.
Then just buy one. Back in the day it used to be much cheaper to build. It still can be, if you're willing to put in the effort, but if you just want to pick parts and have someone else build it you might as well just buy. It's much easier to customize even the store bought ones now than it used to be.
Personally I like building for cost, hackintosh (bios settings), and overclocking. All things you don't get buying
If I were you I would NOT buy ATI. I had two 5870s in CrossfireX for over a year and while I loved the hardware, the drivers just stink. There's been problems for months with certain games (games that are OpenGL especially) and with some games the CFX scaling is negative. That means you'll get worse performance with CFX enabled than with it disabled (using one card). They've also been sticking to a once-a-month schedule for official drivers and their release of hotfix drivers is fairly rare. As for the processor, Sandy Bridge is going to be great. I've heard that AMD's Bulldozer is supposed to be great for gaming like their FX chips were back then, but we'll just have to wait and see. I hope Bulldozer ends up being good also because good competition between Intel and AMD will only make things better.
It's also much easier to get ripped off using some of those configurators. In many cases they just show you things like "- $50", "+ $25", etc. They don't show you what you're actually paying, so everytime you get rid of something and add something to your configuration, you may be getting screwed even more. If you're averse to putting a PC together or buying a pre-configured system, then you probably don't have much choice, but if you don't mind building a system, it's probably better to buy the parts and just do it yourself.
For anyone interested in building a Sandy Bridge-based PC, check out these pretty sweet combos from MicroCenter. CPU + mobo for $300 and less is a pretty good start : http://www.microcenter.com/storefronts/powerspec/index.html If you guys see anything better, let me know - I'm starting to put a list of "wants" together. :grin:
Nice, I'm starting to get the itch as well for a new machine. I just built my last one back in 2009, so it's not like I really need new hardware, but I'm in the planning stages of converting my downstairs office into a full on man cave, and I think it deserves a whole new system. I'll probably start seriously digging into prices in the next couple weeks and will post here if I find anything good.
Go with this suggestion. Sandy bridge will destroy anything and is best bang for your buck. I would go for the 2600k, but the 2500 will do if you want to save some cash. You can also find deals for GTX 460 1GB for $150 each and have a cheap but awesome SLI setup. Do NOT skimp on the case. Your case will last you through atleast 3-4 builds before you get tired of it. My tastes would be the Corsair 800D or 700D depending on your price. For your operating system, you have to go SSD. They have 120GB Intel SSD's for around 199, or if you dont want to spend that much, you can go with a 60 or 80 gig for around 79-99. There's no bigger upgrade than the SSD. OCZ Vertex or Intel G2 SSD's are the higher end better ones imo. Other than that, the rest is up to you.
Thanks for the feedback everyone, if must build my own I will I just don't really want to take the time to do it. http://www.microcenter.com/storefronts/powerspec/index.html as posted above, there is 5 in stock in houston. How does that G210 Desktop for 1499 hold up, will it stand the test of time for a few years ect..?? recommended?? or could anyone post a set-up to buy from newegg or microcenter for me to go buy and put it together including the sandy bridge? The sandy bridge sounds like its the way to go.
