my friend wants to build a gaming pc and his budget is $2,500. He is mainly wanting gaming(high settings) but wants to record and edit his videos also. I haven't kept up with parts since my last build 4 or 5 years ago and i'm pretty stuck on what parts to get. here is something i put together quickly, i know this isnt a good build but it was just a estimate.
heres my quick parts list. told him to wait since i know almost nothing now and ask for help
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/HcvVK8
Does he need anything else? like keyboard/mouse/headphones and such? Because 2500 is a bit much just to spend on a PC for non professional use.
I'd recommend you throw in a 4k monitor, perhaps the one wendell just review since it has free-sync.
I suppose start here, the PC itself should be fairly silent, and I went with the Fury due to free-sync, but the 980ti is a faster card, total atm is 1800 plenty of room for the 4k monitor
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/7CQVK8
You can always drop the SSD to get some room for the monitor, but overall that's probably what I'm going to stick to suggesting.
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Thats more like it but i'd get a 4 stick set of ram to take advantage of x99's quad channel memory
RAM speed don't matter for much, unless the 4 stick kit is cheaper
thank you, he really isn't worried about a keyboard, speaker, and such. He doesn't want a monitor past 24 or under 22, tried talking him up to a 27 or more but i guess. Thanks!
Well, just let him know that a 4k monitor of that size isn't really worth it, but here's one that's IPS and 23" at 350
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009832&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-PCPartPicker,%20LLC-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=
Or there's this thing, 1440p freesync IPS 144hz 600 bucks though
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236466
Or for that same price you could get like 3 korean 1440p monitors and call it a day
Thats not the point you dont spend that much on a mobo with 8 slots for quad channel memory and then fill 2 slot up that makes no sense at all you can pick up quad memory kits for the same money.
But the speed doesn't affect like anything, if you get larger single sticks you can fit in more RAM later.
how much video editing, recording etc does he do?
I would personaly say go Skylake over Haswell, from a gaming perspective.
Skylake is the newest platform, it just is a littlebit better overall, wenn it comes to support for connectivity arround the board.
However, if he also does allot of recording, video editing and rendering.
Then I think that X99 with 5820k might be a better choice.
Especialy with that budget.
THe 5820K offers 6 cores 12 threads, instead of a 4790k or 6700k 4 cores 8 threads.
The 5820k will do allot better in recording and rendering, and its also easy to overclock.
In terms of overall price diffrence between the 5820k haswell-E chip or the 6700K skylake chip is just a few bucks, Both platforms use DDR4 memory, but on X99 you have support for quadchannel, which again will help in rendering and editing stuf.
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Garbage X99 supports 128gbs of ram (never going to be needed) if you use a 4stick set @ 16 gb's that still leave's 4 slot's for anuther 16gb kit (32gbs) more than any normal person will ever need
Heya was going to go X99 but the budget was over 70 bucks so went skylake instead. Here you go. http://pcpartpicker.com/p/wkLJ4D
With 128gbs of RAM you could just run stuff in on a RAM disk and live your life on the edge.
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This is what i came up with.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/gJV6t6
i think this would be a realy nice setup for his needs, there is still room in the budget for a very nice monitor.
Psu might be a bit overkill for this build, basicly a 750W would be plenty aswell. But the EVGA unit has currently a nice rebate action on it.
let me know what you think.
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Intel 750 series PCIe SSD, 980Ti, 5820K... $2065...
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Jdq4f7
Would've put another 980Ti in there, but I'd go with a 1440p monitor if he doesn't want anything over 27 inches, and 980Ti SLI for 1440p's a bit silly. Going with a 980Ti from the start and an SLI capable motherboard because he might want to go 4K later on and then he's just got to get another 980Ti.
Might want more storage perhaps? Kinda subjective how much he thinks he'll need.
apparently my friend decided to go with another build and this is what he came up with and ordered already, not sure if this a good build or not but here it is. Not sure why he didn't choose my (y'alls) build but this is what his other friend suggested from what i know. i think he could have made a much better build with 1k.
no cpu cooler(stock), instead of the M5A99 his is a M5A97
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Lloyd 3 TV
well its basicly not that bad if you look to it from a balanced perspective.
But the FX9590 is realy a waste of money.
Also he is going to need an aftermarket damm good cooler, to cool it.
Since he allready has ordered the parts it doesnt make much sense to give a honnest opinnion i think.
But if it was me, i would personaly not botter with AM3+ anymore atall nowdays, especialy not with a 1k budget.
rip
Hopefully he picked up the Asus M5A97 Evo R2.0. It's the LE or the regular M5A97 R2.0, those VRMs are going to be running really toasty. Also, now that I think of it, since you've been linking the US pcpartpicker, the M5A97 Evo R2.0 is basically nonexistent here - so he's going with a pretty weak motherboard.
Grabbing an i7 would make so much more sense. The FX-9590 is just a hot mess. 220w TDP, old architecture, etc. Also no CPU cooler lol.
He also really did skimp on the GPU and power supply. I guess they'll be functional...
There's so much potential at a 1K budget though. Xeon E3-1231 V3, inexpensive B85/H97 board, 16GBs of RAM, maybe an R9 390 and a nicer power supply.
I dunno. Hopefully everything works out in the long run but I have a feeling that it won't.
Wait what? did he boaght a FX9590 + Asus M5A97 R2.0 with 4+2 powerphase and digi vrm?
I thought he had the 990Fx pro
OH NO! thats not good.
yea, im not really a fan of AMD, and i hope he isnt going to run his cpu hard since no aftermarket cooler lol he was also short from the GPU he wanted so i had to search for one under 230 including tax and shipping. im sure there is a better gpu for under that price from i picked out for him but i had about 30 mins to pick..The motherboard is the LE version. Should i tell him to start considering returning things lol?
just to throwing this out here since i dont know how well my pc is. Built it about 3 or 4 years ago i think also under 1k around 8 or 9 also including keyboards mice and such
CPU: intel i5 the K version not sure the versions
PSU: 650w full modular gold+
MOBO: z77 extreme 4
GPU: radeon 7850
RAM: vengeance 8 gig
M5A97 Evo is not readily available in the US.
so... RIP. 4+2 on a FX-9590