| ToastyJaguar said: I've been thinking the past few days about building an ultimate gaming rig, i've looked at all the dfferent components and checked the prices and it seems to be quite reasonable. Also the prospect of having 2 hardrives and 2 graphics cards seems to be just awesome! I'm looking to make a machine that handles Crysis with ease. Has anyone else had such a venture? Is it cost effective and can an absolute rookie even attempt to build a computer on his own without damaging all the expensive stuff that goes in the box? It's been a long time since i properly played games on the PC and with the new games pushing hardware to its limits i don't think i can resist. So let me know what experiences you have had and if anyone has an ultimate gaming rig which they built themselves and how it compares to just going to a shop and buying an all in 1. I also asked my computer programmer uncle about my venture and he said building a computer isn't cost effective anymore but i'm going to ignore him. |
Well ignoring the secondary discussion that broke out in this thread I can tell you from a great wealth of PC building experience that you can in fact build a PC from parts for much cheaper than you can buy from a pre-built company. And on that note your Uncle probably doesn't know where to get good prices.
Check out www.newegg.com and www.tigerdirect.com. For the major components of a PC those two sites will have the cheapest prices most of the time. I used to build 6-7 PCs a month on average as a side cash thing but lately I've been doing it a lot less, but out of habit I've stayed up to date on prices and current tech.
Get yourself a budget worked and decide if you're aiming at "very high end" system that is focused on performance only or if you're trying to balance performance with price for a "high end" system. Once you have that info we can move ahead with a parts list, without that info its really hard to gauge which parts to pick out.
Also which country are you in?
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