Custom PC Builders?

[JEMC]

SamuelRSmith said:

JEMC said:

A GTX 1060 6GB or an RX 580 8GB exceed the recommended specs of the games you've listed, so that's the min. you should look for on a PC if you want it to last a few years.

As for the CPU, it depends on what else are you going to do with it, but a fast quad core from Intel (I'd point to an i5-6500/7500 as the least you should get) will be enough. Ryzen is a good alternative, but only if you're going to overclock or you find a store that sells PCs with overclocked parts. If you find one, an R5 1600X should be the sweet spot.

Beyond that, the absolute minimum of RAM you need is 8GB, but you should really try to get 16GB.

You shouldn't have major problems finding a PC with all that for less than $1,000. Heck, if I can find a PC with all that plus a 120GB SSD here in Spain for less than 1,000 € WITH taxes, you should be able to find it for a lot less.

I was actually looking at this card "so that's the min", what does that mean? It's not that great?

Does it play Crysis? (..... is that still the benchmark?) Half Life 2 with HDR enabled? 

When I said that those 2 cards whould be the minimum you should get is because they are the lowest cards to meet the recommended specs for the games you listed, so they should be the ones to get in order to be able to play those games without worrying if your PC can run it or not.

SamuelRSmith said:
So based on some of the posts I read on here, I built this on "cyberpowerpc"

CAS: CyberpowerPC X-MIRAGE Black Mid Tower ATX Gaming Case w/ Tempered Glass on both side Windows [-9] (Black Color)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600X 3.6GHz [4.0GHz Turbo] Six-Core 16MB L3 Cache 95W Processor [-60]
FAN: Corsair Hydro Series H60 120mm Liquid CPU Cooling System w/ Copper Cold Plate (Single Standard 120MM Fan)
HDD: 1TB SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 32MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (Single Drive)
IUSB: Built-in USB 2.0 Ports
KEYBOARD: CyberpowerPC Multimedia USB Gaming Keyboard
MEMORY: 16GB (8GBx2) DDR4/2400MHz Dual Channel Memory (Performance Memory by Major Brands)
MOTHERBOARD: ASRock AB350 Pro4 AM4 ATX w/ RGB, Realtek LAN, 2 PCIe x16, 4 PCIe x1, 6 SATA3, 2 M.2 SATA/PCIe
MOUSE: CyberpowerPC Standard 4000 DPI with Weight System Optical Gaming Mouse
NETWORK: Onboard Gigabit LAN Network
POWERSUPPLY: 600 Watts - Standard 80 Plus Certified Power Supply - SLI/CrossFireX Ready
SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO
VIDEO: AMD Radeon RX 580 4GB GDDR5 Video Card [VR Ready] (Single Card)

Which all comes to a grand total of $907 plus tax.

Included is a 1 year parts warranty, and 3 years service/technical support. I'll probably opt to add in some shipping coverage, and maybe buy a surge protector (lots of storms around here, causes unstable power a couple times per year).

Is this a good price, is there anything in that list that's a red flag? Cheap gunk, overpaying, or even just way overpowered for our needs?

I have 2 criticisms about your setup:

1) Do NOT get a 4GB RX 580 card or a 3GB GTX 1060. There are games that already use 4GB or more at 1080p so, if you go that route, you may find yourself in trouble to run some games sooner than you want.

2) Ryzen processors work best with fast RAM. If you can afford it, get a faster RAM kit. 3000-3200MHz should be the sweet spot.

Captain_Yuri said:

SamuelRSmith said:

We can happily wait a couple more months, we've been umming and erring about this for a while now. Although, if we do wait until October, will we be then be recommended to wait a bit more time for something else on the horizon?

Well, the next big upgrade as far as most people know for gaming will be Nvidia Volta which isn't coming out until at least q1 next year according to Nvidia. Now if you want to wait until Q1 2018, then be my guest and the upgrade to Volta will certainly be worth the wait but that is still rumored with no real confirmation from Nvidia. And for all we know, it might take even longer.

We do have plently of hints by intel themselves though that their next gen will be released in October so... At the very least if you wait until October and then upgrade, you shouldn't have buyer's remorse or anything. Cause the worst feeling at least for me is that you upgrade and then 30 days later, it's outdated. And really, if the rumors for intel's next gen is true, the next gen i3 will have similar performance to a current gen i7. If that becomes true and I buy a kaby lake now, I would be regreting life but that's just me.

Plus maybe the GPU prices will finally go down to their MSRP but who knows about that.

Intel will launch the new Coffe Lake processors in October 5th: http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/intel-6-core-coffee-lake-processors-launch-october-5th.html