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1337 Gamer on 16 July 2015

Go to PCpartpicker.com and put together a pc there that fits your budget. By usint their website they will tell you if parts are compatible and by building it yourself you can get alot better hardware for the money. $600 can buy a pretty good PC even a nice I3 processor or even better an AMD FX-6300 is a good platform to begin with for a budget build. You can add in a nice graphics card like an AMD 270x or Nvidia 960 and 8 gb of ram all for around $600. That should play most games on high settings 60 fps no problems at 1080p. This is assuming you have a copy of windows and a monitor/TV already.



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NobleTeam360 on 16 July 2015

You could just use PC part picker. It'll tell you if there are any compatibility issues with the parts you pick. Also provides links to websites to buy the parts from.



m0ney on 16 July 2015

When I was building in december I used pcpartpicker and this subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc



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garretslarrity on 16 July 2015
LMU Uncle Alfred said:

I never had a powerful gaming PC before; a decent laptop but not a really powerful desktop PC.  I'm wondering if someone could help me out here.

I see a few places that look tempting to buy from, but I want some advice from some local experts. 

NOTE:  There are two schools of thought I'm going for, and aside of power I'm looking for good heat reduction as well:

1. A PC that is around $500 ($530 at most) with the best specs that you think you could find if you were buying it.

An awesome gaming rig around $500 would be my first choice, but..

2. I'm willing to go to $650 or at the VERY HIGHEST $700, but only if it completely blows anything around $500 away;  and I mean significantly.  Not mildly better, I mean top of the line and could last 5-10 years able to play anything at max setting.  I don't know if that's possible, but well here we are.

So what do these figures include?  Do we also need to budget for the monitor, OS, keyboard, mouse, etc.?



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slab_of_bacon on 16 July 2015
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generic-user-1 on 16 July 2015
greenmedic88 said:
$500-700 is considered budget level PC gaming.

No one builds a gaming PC with anything approaching a 10 year life expectancy, even for actual top of the line systems that run in excess of several thousand dollars.

This is very realistically what a $700 budget buys for a build it yourself gaming PC:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/build-budget-gaming-pc,4065.html

Current Budget Gaming PC Components
CPU Intel Core i3-4150 (Haswell) $120
CPU Cooler Intel Boxed Heat Sink and Fan $0
Motherboard ASRock H81M-HDS, LGA 1150, Intel H81 Express $57
RAM G.Skill Ripjaws 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1600 F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL $64
Graphics Sapphire Dual-X Radeon R9 280 100373L $180
Hard Drive Western Digital WD Blue WD10EZEX 1TB $55
Power EVGA 100-W1-500-KR 500W $43
Performance Platform Cost $519
Storage Drive None $0
Case NZXT Source 210 Elite Black $50
Optical Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK SATA 24x DVD Burner $20
Total Hardware Cost
$589
OS Windows 8.1 X64 OEM $100
Complete System Price
$689

As anyone familiar with PC components will recognize (anyone familiar will already have a good idea of what $700 in hardware will buy anyway) this is a competent but modest 1920x1080 gaming PC.

I suggest reading builder articles from Tomshardware.com to better educate yourself on what various budgets will currently buy and the tested performance numbers said builds will yield.

i3 is realy weak for gaming...   and wo the hell buys fullprice windows?



beeje13 on 16 July 2015

Tip: Don't get a GPU (hear me out guys).
Then get $500 dollar of sensibly priced quality products. Then when you are ready get a good GPU as they are pretty much plug in and play.

A decent quad core Intel CPU (i5) will be competitive for a few years (maybe even 5 years) judging by the recent pace of CPU development, and lower CPU overheads from new API's like DX12 and mantle.

Maybe wait for DDR4 to become widely adopted it's not looking like a huge leap in terms of performance though. Also AMD have their new desktop CPU which could be a good buy, but we won't know for sure until it's released.

Could an SSD be squeezed in somewhere? Doesn't really impact framerates, but cuts load times dramatically, and help stop stuttering through slow asset-streaming.

There is alot to think about but imo it's worth the time in the end.

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Mummelmann on 16 July 2015

I just got my new rig about two weeks ago, it cost almost 4000$ (with the monitor) but still won't really max new games in 5 years time. It does absolutely murder everything out now though, at 1440p anyway (The Witcher 3 on Ultra with 65-70 fps average is as delicious as it sounds).

There's no such thing as a 10 year gaming PC, after a whole decade you won't even be able to upgrade since the newer parts won't correspond and work with the older parts at all.

If you can afford it, try a 1000$ budget, still a cheap gaming PC, dirt cheap when you consider those who shell out 1200-1300 for a Macbook they only use for browsing the internet, watching movies and listening to music and using social media...



nuckles87 on 16 July 2015

My unit cost me about $1600, and I had to put it together myself. That's pretty much how much you need to spend in order to get anything close to what you're asking for in option to of the OP.
 
As others have suggested, PCpartpicker is pretty great. BUT one thing you gotta know about putting together your own PC is that pretty much everyone makes some sort of mistake their first time. Every single person I've ever talked to about it has. I got a power supply that couldn't power the GTX 980 I got, so I had to buy another one which set me back a bit.