| Mensrea said:
Thank you also for the list, I knew about most of them, but not all. The witcher is good?
I'm pretty flexible on the budget. I want a rig that will last me a while, I know that's difficult given the rapid advancement of PC tech, but something that will be able to run everything for 3 years or so would be nice. How much is that going to run me? |
I just checked my email, and around 2 years ago I bought a PC with these specs:
| 1 x Processor | [= Six Core =] AMD Phenom™ II X6 1100T Black Edition Six-Core CPU |
| 1 x Memory | 8 GB [2 GB X4] DDR3-1600 Memory Module - Corsair or Major Brand |
| 1 x Video Card | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 - 2GB - Single Card |
And everything else (case, cooling, etc). It cost me $1,073 after tax.
I would, however, recommend getting the "GTX 560 TI" if you're going to get a similar setup. If you want to see (on a fairly accurate scale) how good different CPUs and GPUs are, check out benchmarks at this site. =)
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/
Flip the tab to CPU to check out those ones. Look at the "High End" ones for each. As you can see, my gfx card is fairly high, but my CPU is much better by comparison. It's mostly because the PC games I play require a lot more on the CPU. I'll probably upgrade my GPU sometime within the next year or so, but I honestly don't need to. I run BF3 on high settings and max any game with less reqs.
I may not be able to max the new games coming out in the next few years, but they will continue to look beautiful on my setup! That's one thing I never understood about console gamers when they trash talk PC. They act like we have to upgrade every other year because we HAVE to max the games, but we don't. I could keep this same exact PC setup and probably easily play new PC games for 7-8 years to come.
EDIT: Keep in mind that buying your first PC will cost a lot more than future upgrades since you'll most likely only be buying one or two parts to upgrade years from now. Unless you want to rebuy everything from scratch, of course.
EDIT 2: I'll disagree with psyberius on a few points. I hate liquid cooling and I've never had an issue with regular cooling going bad. My friends have always told me to never get liquid cooling. You'll get opinions on both sides, so it's up to you.
Also, I wouldn't get an SSD if you're on a budget. While starting up in a heartbeat is really fun, it's really not necessary and you can probably spare the extra seconds it takes for your HDD to boot things up rather than waste the large increase in cash that SSD's cost. Then again, if you have the cash and you really want an SSD, go for it. =)
