Pemalite said:
Gilgamesh said:
Hoping this isn't too off topic but since there's some pretty smart PC builders here I was wondering for a budget PC build is a APU the best way to go?
I'm not a huge PC gamer but I do enjoy the occassional game, it will be connected to my tv. |
There are allot of variables that need to be considered.
Such as...
* 1. Your budget.
* 2. What resolution are you gaming at? (I.E. 1366x768 or 1920x1080 which are the common TV resolutions.)
* 3. Form factor. (ITX, I.E. Shoe-box sized, Micro-ATX, ATX etc'.)
* 4. Upgradeability.
* 5 .Performance, I.E. Intel are faster than AMD in the CPU space, AMD are generally faster in the GPU space at any given price point, are your workloads/games more CPU or GPU heavy? (RTS games generally favor the CPU, FPS generally favors the GPU.)
* 6. Noise. (AMD stock coolers, put jet engines to shame.)
* 7. Overclocking.
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1.$500 (been looking at the new 2014 budget gaming pcs and they look really interesting.
2. 1920x1080 is my next TV.
3. This is sometihng to do with the motherboard, I haven't got much thought into that (never built a PC before always wanted to.)
4. Some, but I'm not overly worried (I proabably see myself playing a lot of older games on my PC, and most of the new ones would the PS3/PS4.
5. The only workload would be the games and like I said I'm not looking to maxed out all settings, maybe around high. (I don't play current RTS games)
6. Quiet would be nice for a living room computer, I don't want to be cranking the volume on the TV because the PC get's to loud.
7. Doubtful.
So pretty basic.
