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Help building a new rig ~$1000.00 budget
Hello,
I finally got the OK from the wife to build a new comp for gaming. My budget is at 1000.00. I don't need a monitor. I would like a new keyboard and mouse.
I would like a system that will allow me to run games on at least medium setting with high FPS. I'm currently getting into Darkfall and looking forward to playing ArchAge when it comes out (I enjoy sandboxes).
This is the first time I've built my own computer, so please be user friendly with me in making recommendations.
Thanks so much for your help!
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Here is an example of roughly a $1000 build. There are alot of options out there and you may can price compare for a little savings. Some people may scour the internet looking for other deals / prices. This is what I found just by looking on newegg.com.
Case- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811147153
PSU-http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182068
RAM - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148544
CPU Cooler- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103057
SSD - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148587
GPU - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202025
HDD & optical drive combo - http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.1269209
CPU & Mobo combo - http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.1270852
Total $962 before shipping, and also has $45 in mail in rebates. After shipping and rebates will probable come to around $950 or so roughly. This will get you an intel I5 Ivy bridge setup, SSD $ HDD, good GPU, 8GB RAM, Gold Rated PSU.
Case is pretty basic, my brother and a friend both use this case and it does very well. I personally do not spend a ton of money on cases. Rather spend money on whats inside. But thats up to you, cases are a matter of choice as long as they are able to hold you components you can spend as much as you want on em.
This is just an idea for a build around your budget, you can go more or less on some items. This will give you a nice system. If you want to drop the HDD and go with a 7950/ 7970 gpu you could. I would recommend staying with an SSD tho.
Hope that helps, I am sure others will pop in and give some advice as well.
Edit - Doh forgot an OS. Windows 8 64 bit - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832416550 adds $100 to the total. So should come out just a tad over $1k before rebates, after should be really close to your $1k budget.
This is what I came up with. That comes out to be $1,047 and also gives a $20 mail in rebate on the video card. You get 3 very good games too. Crysis 3, Bioshock Infinite and Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113284
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231460
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157305
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820171740
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811108407
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182278
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131468
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.1269132
A Crucial V4 is junk, and definitely not what you want. You can get something very nice for the same price:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233404
Most people won't need a 2 TB hard drive, and you can save quite a bit by going with a smaller hard drive:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.1269129
That gets you to right around the stated budget.
I realize that you're trying to squeeze in a Radeon HD 7970, but you're sacrificing too much to make room for it. The power supply is junk, the case only comes with one fan, the motherboard is awfully low end, and there isn't an OS license at all. Fixing all of that would put you way over budget, and the only reasonable fix is getting a cheaper video card.
Keep in mind that this is his first pc build. Its not like he is a extreme overclocker thats been building for years. He just wants something to play games. For a first build this is a very good pc for $1000. Even if that power supply is junk which I have a hard time seeing how he can always go with another for around the same price range so thats no problem. The costumer reviews are right there for all parts listed with all parts having solid reviews.
Now, I didn't need a case, PSU, optical drive, vid card or HDD when I did my latest update. But, that said, I went as follows -
The New buys-
AMD FX-8350
ASUS Sabretooth R2
Corsair Vengeance 16 gig DDR 3
Already had-
Radeon HD 6970
ThermalTake 750 watt Modular PSU
LG SuperMulti Drive
Western Digital 1 TB Black
Custom case with four fans (2x80mm and 2x120mm)
Still want an SSD, an upgrade to a Blu-Ray MultiDrive, and another 16 gig of RAM.
You could get the vid card equivalent in an HD 7950
Even if you're inclined to trust New Egg user reviews of power supplies, 30% saying that it died or never worked in the first place isn't terribly positive reviews. None of the user reviews pulled anywhere near the rated wattage, and none measured voltage regulation or ripple even at the wattages that they did pull.
Even if it did cause problems short of dying out right, most of the review authors probably wouldn't have been able to trace the problems to the power supply. People who write user reviews of low-quality power supplies tend to be users of low-quality power supplies, which is a self-selecting group of people who have no clue what they're talking about.
Putting high power parts into a case with only one fan is asking for overheating problems. Even a perfectly good 120 mm fan isn't meant to dissipate the heat output from 400 W in TDP worth of parts all by itself. A single fan is fine for a low-power office rig, but not what you want for a high-power gaming system.
The motherboard likely wouldn't be a major problem, but if it it's cheaper to get a higher quality motherboard that actually uses the intended platform for the CPU, then why not do it?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130637
Though that's if you wanted to go with an AMD processor in the first place, and on a $1000 budget, I'd go with Intel, especially with the combo deal that jdnewell found.
Trying to run Windows games without Windows isn't likely to end well.
What I am saying is that these are all good parts. Junk parts to me are parts that simply dont work and I dont see that. Need another fan then just buy it. Dont like that board which I do then there are more with in the same price range.This stuff aint hard. Lets see the $1000 Intel build.
See post #5 in this thread. jdnewell mostly had a good build, which is why I didn't feel the need to go create my own that mostly copies his. But I would make a couple of tweaks to it.
Its always good when you can use parts from your old build. Nice choice on going the an AMD setup.