Buying (or possibly building) a new PC

[r00t]

The 8 core AMD FX-8350 for $200 is like literally the best CPU, biggest bank for your buck. You can get similar spec'd Intel Xeon's/i7 for like ~$80-$1800 more, but they're 4 core with hyperthreading (2 logical cores per 1 physical , fake 8 cores imo, allegedly bad for gaming too).

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819113284

[melkortshea]

Originally Posted by r00t [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The 8 core AMD FX-8350 for $200 is like literally the best CPU, biggest bank for your buck. You can get similar spec'd Intel Xeon's/i7 for like ~$80-$1800 more, but they're 4 core with hyperthreading (2 logical cores per 1 physical , fake 8 cores imo, allegedly bad for gaming too).

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819113284

I have this same CPU and it is a beast.

Also friends don't let friends buy Dell or HP for that matter. If your going gaming rig build it yourself but if your buying retail run as far away from Dell or HP as fast as you can. I am a PC tech of 12 years and I have seen more nightmares people have had to go through from those two brands more than anything else.

Intel does have Faster CPU's over all but you still get the best bang for your buck from AMD.

I almost didn't get the AMD FX-8350 due to bench marks ect. but I can honestly say that I have had one close to a year now and I have every game cranked up on "Suffer" with 16GB of RAM, Nvidia 560TI and I use a Intel 120GB SSD for my Win 8 OS and 2TB 6Gb/s Sata for my games and storage.

Is it a top of the line PC ? No but it performs great for a reasonable cost and to me that's all that matters.

[SamwiseRed]

interesting mmo-champion build of the month link
http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/...age=5#comments

here are the two builds featured right now. i have about 1300 set aside for new machine, i cant believe these are under 1k. can anyone confirm/deny if these are quality components. im hoping this computer at least lasts me 3-4 years. im hoping its eqn playable. any thoughts?

Build 1:
Case NZXT Source 210 - $40
Power Supply Corsair CX500 - $50
CPU AMD FX-6300 - $125
Heatsink Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus - $28
Motherboard ASUS M5A97 R2.0 - $100
Memory Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB 1333 - $35
Graphics Card XFX 7770 - $97
Hard Drive Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB
DVD Asus 24X SATA DVD+/-RW - $22
Total $552

Build 2:
Case NZXT Source 210 - $40
Power Supply Core Edition PRO 550W - $50
CPU AMD FX-8320 - $145
Heatsink Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO - $33
Motherboard ASUS M5A99FX PRO - $120
Memory 8GB G.Skill DDR3 1600 - $70
Graphics Card ASUS 7870 2 GB or ASUS GTX 660 Ti - $200 / $199
Hard Drive Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB - $85
DVD Asus 24X SATA DVD+/-RW - $22
Total $765

[SamwiseRed]

here is the other set of builds

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like i said about 1300 is my limit atm. take into account i need to buy a legit copy of win 7 or some other os. thanks.

[SamwiseRed]

http://www.logicalincrements.com/

wow that site is cool as hell, thanks.

[Halius]

Originally Posted by SamwiseRed [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

http://www.logicalincrements.com/

wow that site is cool as hell, thanks.

I would definitely recommend using that site. As for buying the parts if you are gonna be building it, go with newegg.com that is what I use to build all my PCs. And as one other poster stated, make sure to check that motherboard components are compatible with what parts you want to get (RAM, video card, CPU, etc.) Also make sure you buy a power supply big enough to power everything, newegg has a power supply calculator tool to help recommend a size to get depending on components.

[Gwence]

you can build a solid rig with a $1300 budget no problem

[citizen1080]

First build does not have enough ram. Minimum 8 gigs imo. I run 32 gigs which is way overkill for most things...but I used to run 16 wow accounts at once on this box...so I used quite a bit of that ram =)

[citizen1080]

Also...why legit windows? I "know" a guy who hasn't paid windows in 10 years. =)

[Thulack]

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Also...why legit windows? I "know" a guy who hasn't paid windows in 10 years. =)

lol i tried to hook sam up but i couldnt find the torrent i used for my copy. Anyone know a cloud service i can get like 5gb free and actually upload a file that is over 3gb?