I have been wanting to build a for about 2 years now. For my birthday (15th) my parents are giving me a couple hundred dollars to build a computer. That, along with my own money, I have 960$ for everything. I want a Skylake (preferably) and a decent graphics card. I won't start building for a couple weeks so I can probably just wait for the 480 to become more available. I want this mostly for gaming. I'll probably do some school work on the rig, but I think that what I would put in it for gaming would be fine for just like typing papers and stuff. With my budget though I need to be able to buy the OS (windows 10), a monitor (perferably ips, not that hardcore of a gamer), and an optical drive. I want the optical drive because I have a lot of CDs and DVDs I want to store on the drive. I can probably bend about 30 dollars on the budget but not much more. I have a list already buts it 50 dollars over. Please criticize me, Ive never built before and I'm still a noob. Thanks to everybody that answers this.
http://pcpartpicker.com/list/yc4hqk
Also, I'd like a SSD for a bootdrive, so probably just 120g, but I'd like to have one.
As in college school work? Because if you have an edu e-mail I believe you can get a student edition of windows 10 for less, otherwise just find it for free in a back alley
anyways, kingston SSD is a no, as is a NEX PSU, I don't think I'd buy a 2TB Seagate drive, if you want a 2TB drive go for the more expensive and probably more reliable 2TB WD red drive
otherwise you could get a cheaper PSU I suppose, but this one's really solid, especially for the money
and ya wait for the 480, card here is a place holder
and I've included a 21:9 1080p display, just because it's only 50$ more than a standard 1080p display
I think I'd highly suggest you pay the little bit extra here for $179 and get this same display, but with a 75hz refresh rate, it's just a bit nicer
PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/t84hqk
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/t84hqk/by_merchant/
CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($197.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: MSI B150M Pro-VD Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($61.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($29.98 @ Newegg)
Storage: Mushkin ECO3 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($64.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($47.49 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Asus Radeon R9 380X 4GB Video Card ($227.98 @ Newegg)
Case: Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mid Tower Case ($45.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: EVGA 650W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($69.99 @ Amazon)
Monitor: LG 25UM56-P 25.0" 60Hz Monitor ($150.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $897.38
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-06-30 13:33 EDT-0400
Would probably get a 256 GB SSD for only a few bucks more, maybe a 500/512 GB SSD would be ideal too if they are cheap and still decent quality, this SSD suxs.
Replace an R9 380X with a RX 480 or if you can get into used parts, get a GTX 970 or R9 390 if you can find it cheaper than the RX 480.
I see several overrides in his list, @Streetguru . I can only assume that this is because of availability or ease of ordering from fewer places. The CPU for instance is not in stock at Superblitzz right now.
@ Spino :
Personally I'd go with the 4GB version of the 480 if you're going to use that 1080p monitor.
I still play in 1080p myself and have never hit the 4GB limit on my own cards even with GTA5's graphics settings completely maxed out.
I don't see the need for a 650W power supply unless you plan to add a second card later on. A single-card PC typically uses around 375-425W under full load (benchmarking CPU and GPU at the same time).
A 550W PSU has plenty of headroom for that. Most of those wattage calculators really exaggerate the predicted system wattage.
The Kingston V300 is a no-no indeed. Those things are notoriously bad. The Mushkin that Streetguru suggested is a lot better. Yes, it's more expensive, but you'll find that 120GB gets real small real quick.
As for Win10, look for a student discount indeed.
There are other places where you can buy a Windows key on the cheap, but of course you never know how reliable those are.
And don't worry about being a noob, at some point we all were.
What's the end difference at $70 vs another decent PSU, probably at $50, might as well pay it and just buy the GPU a bit later for the long run, this PSU I don't think can be beat at $70
http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&file=print&reid=454
good day,
i noticed that your PC part picker has a windows 10 key on it, for way too much money, i advise going to kinguin.net and grabbing their windows 10 key for 23.99 euros (27 USD) and saving the extra money on somthing else
https://www.kinguin.net/catalogsearch/result/index/?q=windows+10
Eh. Gray Market.
yeah but saving money is saving money
and he can put said money towards a better computer as opposed to giving it to microsloths :)
but you can get it 100% off elsewhere....
I have an 380x for now until some of the new 480s come out, I do plan on getting them I just have that card in to show me a full price
Power supply I got is so high wattage because of price. I want to put a semi modular PSU and that one was cheapest of the brand's I wanted to pick from
And ill probably get that ssd u told me about. And I was planning on the 4 g card