Help with PC setup
Saffron_baker
Sweden Join Date: 2015-06-09 Member: 205352Members
Sweden Join Date: 2015-06-09 Member: 205352Members
So now it's christmas and my friend has promised me to buy ns2 but first he needs a new computer beacouse his old one is broken....
So he got no skills in what a computer does and so on. So i decided to help him out. I've set up a PC before but it took like 2 months for me to find the right pices and i guess you got some more experience....
So now im asking you what PC setups do you recomend for 1300 dollars?
I would like 16 gb ram and 1 terrabite memory.
And a very good graphics card.
~you're beloved Saffron_Baker
So he got no skills in what a computer does and so on. So i decided to help him out. I've set up a PC before but it took like 2 months for me to find the right pices and i guess you got some more experience....
So now im asking you what PC setups do you recomend for 1300 dollars?
I would like 16 gb ram and 1 terrabite memory.
And a very good graphics card.
~you're beloved Saffron_Baker
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An Intel 4790k
Nvidia GTX 970
1 250 gb SSD (Samsung 850 is good)
1 TB harddrive (Western Digital Caviar Black is a good drive)
The rest doesn't matter too much. Good websites to use are
http://pcpartpicker.com
and http://cpubenchmark.net
You can use pcpartpicker to pick every piece and find the lowest price.
I built this earlier this year
https://pcpartpicker.com/user/samusdroid/saved/ZF3XsY
Obviously you don't NEED a 144hz monitor but I highly suggest getting one, you won't regret it. If you are spending this much on hardware you should get a good monitor that can compliment it.
Unfortunately you just missed some pretty good black Friday and cyber Monday deals.
Corsair vengeance RAM is good, anything over 2133mhz is waste of money, performance negligible.
If you dont want an SSD (Which I highly recommend, Samsung EVO / Pro series are great) Get a western digital caviar black.
Graphics card? 970 will do you just fine.
As with my i5 recommendation, I often recommend to people the cheaper options. Memory is really simple and you can go as cheap as possible with it. Anything above 1600mhz has incredibly minimal gains. There are gains but they are just not seen in real world usage much. I really like this review as it shows that. I also always buy memory that has a lifetime warrenty. I don't do this because I plan on using the warrenty but because it shows the manufacturer trusts its product to last a lifetime. Most brands have a lifetime warrenty, but always make sure.
SSD's are something else you can go pretty cheap on. Anymore all modern SSD's are very reliable. Just having even a cheap slower ssd is 10x better than a mechanical hdd. Samsung does make some of the best ssd's right now. They even offer a 5 year warranty, which is better than the competitions typical 3 year. It shows that they trust their product. I just got a samsung 850 evo myself because it is one of the better performing most reliable ssds and it was on sale for the price comparable to the cheapest ssd.
As for motherboards, they are all pretty much the same anymore. All of the major brands are very reliable and have very similar feature sets. I would not go the cheapest possible here though but I also would not go high end. Just make sure it is a Z87 or Z97 motherboard because you can overclock your K cpu with it.
For a gpu I find it hard to recommend anything less than the 970. You could go less, but with your budget I just don't see a reason to. It has very good price to performance. I just would not go higher than a 970.
forums.unknownworlds.com/discussion/137682/pc-died-need-help-choosing-new-one/p1
Nice way to pick parts for noobs like me:
logicalincrements.com/
I could not remember its name or else I would of brought it up. It is perfect for this. I just think there needs to be more or at least better suggestions from superb to outstanding.