Need advice for building a gaming rig

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Mango Cobra

Mango Cobra

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I recently came into a little bit of money and I decided I'm going to spend it on a new gaming PC. I want to build my own, so i was hoping some of the people here might be willing to help me out with finding good parts.
My budget is 1200 dollars, with an extra 200 as wiggle room.
 
I'll shill the Gabe Gear as a good overall investment if you only play low-to-mid end or old shit & value portability. It also works with a monitor and KBM and you can install whatever you want on it as it doesn't actually require Steam. All of that at the current asking price is pretty good. The rise of phone shit & actually-good optimization also means the demand for powerful graphics cards has fallen off into a niche interest unless you want to play games on some abnormally-large resolution. And if you do value that stuff I would wait for the next generation of cards which is due soon.

tl;dr you should decide what games you want to play and buy around that.
 
Massa's Little Buckie said:
I used this because I'm a retard.

I don't know if you live somewhere where power goes out constantly, but get a UPS.
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Thanks, looks like a great site. I'll also look into a UPS - I don't think I've had a single blackout since I moved, but I might as well get this just to be safe.
Toolbox said:
Look into if it has pure sine wave or whatever. Desktops can get weird when power's not converted quite right. I've been using a APC pro 1500 for a while without issues.
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I don't know what this means. I'm kind of an idiot, can you explain?
Ridley said:
I'll shill the Gabe Gear as a good overall investment if you only play low-to-mid end or old shit & value portability. It also works with a monitor and KBM and you can install whatever you want on it as it doesn't actually require Steam. All of that at the current asking price is pretty good. The rise of phone shit & actually-good optimization also means the demand for powerful graphics cards has fallen off into a niche interest unless you want to play games on some abnormally-large resolution. And if you do value that stuff I would wait for the next generation of cards which is due soon.

tl;dr you should decide what games you want to play and buy around that.
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To my shame I love Cyberpunk 2077 way more than I should, and I'm a bit of an MMO fag so I play too much FFXIV. Other than that its mostly fallout games, conan exiles, and elder scrolls.
 
Here's one for 1,151.63 @Mango Cobra
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you could get more ram or a better cpu or get 2tb of ssd rather than the 3tb of hard drive

 
www.logicalincrements.com

Logical Increments PC Buying Guide

Helping you build a PC, at any budget.
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Logical increments is pretty up to date with showing a good spectrum of parts. From the $250 poorfag builds that will handle most 720p gaming to the $4000+ needlessly powerful builds for insane people that regularly play games like Crysis and CyberPunk while rendering/decompiling shit in the background.
 
Mango Cobra said:
I don't know what this means. I'm kind of an idiot, can you explain?
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I don't know how good I could explain it. This is a bit wordy but covers it. https://climatebiz.com/what-is-a-pure-sine-wave-inverter/ This is covering it for solar installers but the principal is the same. Emulated sine done cheaply leads to sharp shifts in current, done better it is smoothed out, which is a 'purer' sine.
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You don't exactly need to know all of this to buy them, just look for if reviewers are saying it has pure sine and if it's advertised in a listing.
 
Had said:
Here's one for 1,151.63 @Mango Cobra
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you could get more ram or a better cpu or get 2tb of ssd rather than the 3tb of hard drive

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What would you suggest for a better CPU and ram? I have up to 1400 as my upper level of my budget.

Other than that I was also wondering about liquid cooling?
 
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Mango Cobra said:
What would you suggest for a better CPU and ram? I have up to 1400 as my upper level of my budget.

Other than that I was also wondering about liquid cooling?
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If the PC is for normal use and games then the 5600 will last you a long time. The RAM is perfectly fine but if you have an extra 50 donuts to spare then double up on it, 4x8 or 2x16, ladies choice. Then you don't have to worry about the 800 chrome tabs in the background when starting Cyberpunk.

Tips:
1 Don't go for the old moron advice and put the pagefile on the HDD, let it live on the SSD.
2 Remember to enable XMP in the bios so the RAM runs at the correct speed(easy thing to miss).
3 You might experience driver fuckery the first day or so, it happens sometimes if all the gpu and chipset and wifi and storage drivers and windows update are stepping on each other. Let windows fully update itself before installing more drivers. That might take a while, download the latest Windows ISO from MS and make a bootable USB stick to make it go faster.
4 Build outside of the case as much as possible, it's easier that way.
 
Had said:
Here's one for 1,151.63 @Mango Cobra
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>Nvidia/AMD CPU build

Mah nigga
 
Mango Cobra said:
What would you suggest for a better CPU and ram? I have up to 1400 as my upper level of my budget.

Other than that I was also wondering about liquid cooling?
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ryzen 7 and get 2 sticks of 16
liquid cooling isn't something i'd do if your first time building a machine, you can get premade ones but they are only for cpu's
people are also saying you might want to get a AMD RX 6800 so everything on the system is AMD.
 
Had said:
Here's one for 1,151.63 @Mango Cobra
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you could get more ram or a better cpu or get 2tb of ssd rather than the 3tb of hard drive

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Not what I would pick, but the two things in this list that stand out to me are the CPU+MB and the Seagate 3TB. First, I don't believe the 5600x can be dropped into a B450 and work without performing a BIOS update which I only mention because I don't know what the OP's level of tech familiarity is. Second and could just be me misremembering but I believe the Seagate 3TB disks had an unusually high failure rate compared to similar options for spin disks.
 
Drael said:
Not what I would pick, but the two things in this list that stand out to me are the CPU+MB and the Seagate 3TB. First, I don't believe the 5600x can be dropped into a B450 and work without performing a BIOS update which I only mention because I don't know what the OP's level of tech familiarity is. Second and could just be me misremembering but I believe the Seagate 3TB disks had an unusually high failure rate compared to similar options for spin disks.
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On the mobo manufacturers page they often say which boards made after X point in time can take a newer generation CPU. The oddly sized 3tb might be a bit wonky, I remember reading something like that in the past as well but they might have sorted it out. Either way, a 4 or 5 terabyte drive won't cost much more(20-40 bucks so within the wiggle room). Just be sure that they're not SMR drives, writing large amounts of data to those becomes a pain in the ass very quickly. They're fine for archiving/storage and reading from, but writing large amounts of data is where it really goes to shit.
 
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