Hello Tek Syndicate. I am a new user who wants to build a computer, but is very limited in knowledge on how to. If any of you could comment a build, that would be great! I am going to list details about me and what I want below. Thank you for all of the help!
Budget:$450-550 I live in Portland, Oregon, US , and we use the American $ I do not prefer any specific retailer. I have a mouse and a keyboard, but I need a monitor. I'd like that monitor to be somewhere between 20 and 25 inches across that can give me a near-nothing lag 1080p display. I want to use this computer for web browsing, gaming (Both PC and ROM), and if possible a decent multitask for the two Overclocking-wise, I'm fine either way, whichever gets the best results for the cheapest amounts of money is good for me. I'd like a little explanation of how high to overclock if that is what is in the build. I do not think that I will want a custom water cooler for this system. I have Windows 10 When gaming, I would be satisfied to game at 1080p on medium-low settings at around 40 fps I will likely play ROMs and online games. I will also play steam games.
this will do 1080P ultra on most games. a monitor with 5ms response time it is weak in the PSU, as it is a case PSU combo it is also weak with storage, but does use a 120gb SSD and a r9380 this was aas weak as I was willing to go while using all new parts. I would replace the PSU and add a 1TB+ HDD when you can.
So normally you'd probably want like an i3 + 380 + whatever the cheapest 1080p IPS displays is
but before all those recommendations come in, I'm going to go the insane route and recommend an APU with a 1440p IPS display - - Now clearly the APU will not most games at 1440p very well, however 1080p scales perfectly with the display, and an APU is going to game around the level of a current console in terms of resolution to fps, so 1080p 30fps, 720p 60fps
Also look on craigslist for 1600x1200 CRT displays, they're generally cheap and have almost the same amount of pixels as a 1920x1080p display, or just look on craigslist for displays in general
I like this build the best out of the ones posted here so far.
A couple of considerations are: - swap out the small SSD for a 1TB HDD if you need storage space. You generally have 90-80GBs left after a windows install. - Get at least an 80+ certified power supply. Most power supply + case combos include a pretty low quality power supply. e.g. http://pcpartpicker.com/part/evga-power-supply-100b10600kr at $40 this is a great budget psu.
I'm not a huge fan of the A10 APU builds since the majority of low-end graphics cards can easily outperform the graphics performance of an APU. Much more logical to get an athlon(which is essentially just the CPU portion of the APU) and a mid range GPU. It's a lot better performing for a similar amount of money.
agreed, I only went with the SSD as it makes it easier to add storage without transferring the OS when an SSD is purchased. If the OP has no plan of getting one, yeah, get the largest HDD you can afford that is reputable.