Looking for advice for a custom built computer.

homerbeoulve

homerbeoulve

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Hello, I just have to ask if there are any people who can help me with regards of building a custom built computer. I want it to be fast for both gaming and other knick knacks because I'm going to need it for programming my own RPG.

My budget would be like $650 to $750. I hope you can help me with this.
 
Re: Looking for advice for a custom built CPU.

The CPU is a specific part of the computer that is upgradeable, and would be very hard I assume to build yourself. It stands for Central Processing Unit. Unless you're talking about building a computer using parts.

I don't have much experience with this since I went to a brick and mortar computer store and they sold me the parts there and built it for me for a slight markup and a service fee.

All of my friends go on newegg for parts though.

http://www.newegg.com/

As long as you know what you're doing and you stick to your budget you could make out with a nice PC.
 
Ill see what I can do for you when I get home.
 
homerbeoulve said:
Hello, I just have to ask if there are any people who can help me with regards of building a custom built computer. I want it to be fast for both gaming and other knick knacks because I'm going to need it for programming my own RPG.

My budget would be like $650 to $750. I hope you can help me with this.
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I built mine in March for a little over $700 ($740 sounds about right), but I already had a case, keyboard, mouse, power supply, and drives. I did get three monitors, though. I watched NewEgg like a hawk; you have to be ready to pounce when they have one of their one-day or half-day sales. It's an i7 at 3.4 GHz or something plopped on an Asrock mobo (chipset is a 67 or 77 or around there) with 16 G of DDR3. The GPU is a 2 GB EVGA nVidia 650 Ti, hardly the latest video card, but I can pull 200 fps on Minecraft across all 3 monitors at some freaky resolution of (like) 6908 by 1080, which suits me fine. The monitors are H/Ps that were $114 each, and Newegg only had 'em on sale for about 18 hours. No SSD or watercooling, sadly (that'd add another $400 easy), but hey. It's got all the USB2 and 3 ports you can stand (+ firewire and some other frivolity), surround sound, and Like That. Newegg had a Pioneer Blu-Ray burner for twenty stinking dollars one day that I couldn't pass up, too, not that I've ever actually used it or anything. I had an extra fan or two laying around that got stuffed in there too, it runs nicely cool & doesn't make too much noise. Oh yeah, it was during the cheap days of Win 8, which I'm not sorry I got.

Wallpaper ain't art unless you wrote the program yourself.
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Me, during a heavy Minecraft binge.
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My brother built his for about $500, and my friend for $900. My friend's is clearly superior, but my brother's could work just as well if he avoided one little problem.

See, make sure your copy of windows is legit, and check reviews for absolutely every piece you buy. The motherboard he got had compatibility issues with Windows 7 but worked with 8 just fine. My brother installed 7, and it wouldn't accept that his copy of windows was legitimate. So what happened was it pretty much left the front door open for viruses, he got one, and it wrecked pretty much everything. The motherboard, the hard drive, the fucking RAM, everything was just wrecked by this virus because he didn't have a legit copy of windows and didn't bother to read reviews of his terrible motherboard.

One piece of advice I can offer, don't freak out if it's your first time and the computer doesn't start correctly. It'll take a few tries, but by fiddling around with it enough, you'll find it's usually a minor issue that can be corrected. You're not guaranteed to fail, but I haven't met someone who didn't do something stupid their first time around.

Also, fun fact, it takes about 2 hours for someone who doesn't know anything about this to actually assemble the computer. It takes someone who's done it before around ten minutes. Try to get help from someone who's physically there in person. Online help can be a disaster sometimes, but can help if you kind of sort of know what you're doing.
 
I always used to be pretty loyal to newegg. Good service, pretty good deals.

Although there's a microcenter in the DC area and a friend of mine gave me a ride, so, I got my last set of computer parts from there. They have some good deals, a lot of them mail in rebates though. If you've got a microcenter near you, it's something to keep in mind, at least.
 
I thought of building a custom built computer for gaming since I wanted to switch from a laptop to a desktop for pc gaming but I need to find work if I want to buy the parts I would want before building a custom computer. Seeing as how a couple people said to use newegg, I would at least like chime in a couple websites.

http://www.logicalincrements.com/
This link should tell parts you could use based on how much you want to spend

http://pcpartpicker.com/
This website would list out parts for you to pick, calculating how much you would end up spending based on what you pick.
 
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Thanks guy, but I really need your help with regards to this like the exact parts and all of the things needed.
 
homerbeoulve said:
Thanks guy, but I really need your help with regards to this like the exact parts and all of the things needed.
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Well I don't know what parts are exactly compatible but I do suggest looking at what the motherboard itself would require such as what cpu is needed (due to sockets I believe). As a rather obvious piece of advice, be sure to look at the specs of items like your memory, motherboard, cpu's, etc.

As far as parts you need, at least for gaming part: motherboard, cpu, power supply, memory stick (RAM), case, operating system, graphics card, sound card, fan's (for both the case and the cpu as a heat-sink, though instead of a cpu fan for cooling, you could get liquid cooling for the cpu instead.), an optical drive,and a hard drive with good space.
That's basically all I know regarding what parts you would want. I haven't bought any parts to build a custom pc, but I'm very sure that others here could fill you in.
 
Smokedaddy said:
homerbeoulve said:
Hello, I just have to ask if there are any people who can help me with regards of building a custom built computer. I want it to be fast for both gaming and other knick knacks because I'm going to need it for programming my own RPG.

My budget would be like $650 to $750. I hope you can help me with this.
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I built mine in March for a little over $700 ($740 sounds about right), but I already had a case, keyboard, mouse, power supply, and drives. I did get three monitors, though. I watched NewEgg like a hawk; you have to be ready to pounce when they have one of their one-day or half-day sales. It's an i7 at 3.4 GHz or something plopped on an Asrock mobo (chipset is a 67 or 77 or around there) with 16 G of DDR3. The GPU is a 2 GB EVGA nVidia 650 Ti, hardly the latest video card, but I can pull 200 fps on Minecraft across all 3 monitors at some freaky resolution of (like) 6908 by 1080, which suits me fine. The monitors are H/Ps that were $114 each, and Newegg only had 'em on sale for about 18 hours. No SSD or watercooling, sadly (that'd add another $400 easy), but hey. It's got all the USB2 and 3 ports you can stand (+ firewire and some other frivolity), surround sound, and Like That. Newegg had a Pioneer Blu-Ray burner for twenty stinking dollars one day that I couldn't pass up, too, not that I've ever actually used it or anything. I had an extra fan or two laying around that got stuffed in there too, it runs nicely cool & doesn't make too much noise. Oh yeah, it was during the cheap days of Win 8, which I'm not sorry I got.

Wallpaper ain't art unless you wrote the program yourself.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v342/ ... dd4cbd.jpg

Me, during a heavy Minecraft binge.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v342/ ... /steve.jpg
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Mr. Smoke, if you don't mind, put all of the parts that you bought together with the case that you used for that assembly. Because I'm really aiming to get a complete PC for $1.1k by next year.

@c-no

Thanks bud.
 
homerbeoulve said:
Smokedaddy said:
homerbeoulve said:
Hello, I just have to ask if there are any people who can help me with regards of building a custom built computer. I want it to be fast for both gaming and other knick knacks because I'm going to need it for programming my own RPG.

My budget would be like $650 to $750. I hope you can help me with this.
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I built mine in March for a little over $700 ($740 sounds about right), but I already had a case, keyboard, mouse, power supply, and drives. I did get three monitors, though. I watched NewEgg like a hawk; you have to be ready to pounce when they have one of their one-day or half-day sales. It's an i7 at 3.4 GHz or something plopped on an Asrock mobo (chipset is a 67 or 77 or around there) with 16 G of DDR3. The GPU is a 2 GB EVGA nVidia 650 Ti, hardly the latest video card, but I can pull 200 fps on Minecraft across all 3 monitors at some freaky resolution of (like) 6908 by 1080, which suits me fine. The monitors are H/Ps that were $114 each, and Newegg only had 'em on sale for about 18 hours. No SSD or watercooling, sadly (that'd add another $400 easy), but hey. It's got all the USB2 and 3 ports you can stand (+ firewire and some other frivolity), surround sound, and Like That. Newegg had a Pioneer Blu-Ray burner for twenty stinking dollars one day that I couldn't pass up, too, not that I've ever actually used it or anything. I had an extra fan or two laying around that got stuffed in there too, it runs nicely cool & doesn't make too much noise. Oh yeah, it was during the cheap days of Win 8, which I'm not sorry I got.

Wallpaper ain't art unless you wrote the program yourself.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v342/ ... dd4cbd.jpg

Me, during a heavy Minecraft binge.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v342/ ... /steve.jpg
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Mr. Smoke, if you don't mind, put all of the parts that you bought together with the case that you used for that assembly. Because I'm really aiming to get a complete PC for $1.1k by next year.

@c-no

Thanks bud.
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Your welcome homer, just remember what everyone on this board told you and you should, to a point, be able to find the parts you need.
 
homerbeoulve said:
Mr. Smoke, if you don't mind, put all of the parts that you bought together with the case that you used for that assembly. Because I'm really aiming to get a complete PC for $1.1k by next year.

@c-no

Thanks bud.
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No prob, I've got the paperwork happily filed (a major departure from how I usually do things) & will dig it out in a couple days when I recover from the impending turkey-coma and make it back home. :)

$1100 cam get you something pretty impressive, with a little work. I wouldn't go with anything less than 16 GB of RAM. A terabyte HD is comfortable for starters, you'd fill a 500 GB in no time. RAID arrays, SSD hard drives, and liquid cooling can wait.

I sort of felt like an ass for getting three monitors like some spoiled fourteen-year-old fanboy, but I couldn't live without 'em anymore. Trying to debug a full-screen application (i.e. a game) on one monitor is nuts, because you can't see the debugger. The solution used to be remote debugging (one computer runs the debugger, another runs the application under debug plus a small communications program) but since approximately the days of Windows XP, getting two computers comfortable enough with each other to actually do that is basically impossible. We would not want to be Insecure and hijack our own systems or anything, I guess. Now I can run a full-screen program on one monitor, the IDE/debugger on another, and have online help open on the third. It's like somebody turned the lights on when you were getting used to fumbling in the dark. (And when work is over, L4D2 at nearly six thousand pixels across running at 130-180 fps is a great way to unwind.)

If you plan on playing Borderlands 2, however, you will need to budget for a case like this. Be warned.
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homerbeoulve said:
Surtur said:
Here is an awesome build I found for 605 bucks

http://pcpartpicker.com/b/Ie3
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AWESOME! But I wish it's an Intel i7 because I really trust Intel so much. Thank you Lord Surtur. ^_^
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Well, you can pick the parts off the list and replace the AMD CPU with a Intel I7 CPU. Checking on the CPU list shows the I7 CPU's to be around the $200-300 range. Also regarding pcpartpicker, I kind of find it to be crazy to find a few hard drives (The SSD kind) that are in the $1000 range having storage space ranging from 120 GB to 1.2 TB.

*Edit: I do wonder, since the motherboard I thought of getting for a custom pc can support a 3rd generation CPU, can it do the same with a 2nd generation CPU? I wonder what the problems could be if there are any.
 
c-no said:
Well, you can pick the parts off the list and replace the AMD CPU with a Intel I7 CPU. Checking on the CPU list shows the I7 CPU's to be around the $200-300 range. Also regarding pcpartpicker, I kind of find it to be crazy to find a few hard drives (The SSD kind) that are in the $1000 range having storage space ranging from 120 GB to 1.2 TB.

*Edit: I do wonder, since the motherboard I thought of getting for a custom pc can support a 3rd generation CPU, can it do the same with a 2nd generation CPU? I wonder what the problems could be if there are any.
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Really? Do you think it will still be compatible even I change the CPU?
 
If you change the CPU you have to change the motherboard.
 
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