| kupomogli said: I don't know if anyone has already mentioned this, but don't cheap out on the motherboard. You're better off paying an additional $50 with up to four slots for RAM and more PCI e slots. You might want to upgrade RAM and you might want to add a capture card in the future. Having a cheap motherboard you're really just limiting yourself and not giving yourself any room to upgrade. Also, with Windows 7, that's another $90, so with a decent montherboard you'll looking looking at $700. It's more powerful than the PS4, but it will probably run the games just as good as the PS4. So what's the point in paying almost double for multiconsole games that are going to play the same. If you build a PC that weak you might as well use it for exclusive games unless you're not interested in getting consoless at all. |
I would only recommend him getting a better mobo if his friend definately wants some enthusiast level graphics way above PS4.
His motherboard is fine, it's a budget build so getting a second PCI-E slot should not be in the priority list, It's just not necessary if you're satistied in single GPU setup comparable to consoles so one 7870 is enough. This is likely going to a casual player too, so better to keep it simple.
Also if he gets an old CPU socket mobo, it's better to get a cheap one now and then some later date either sell the PC and build a new one or just buy an upgrade kit mobo/CPU/GPU.
