Help me build my new PC?

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Hey guys, new to the site, so I'm going to just go off the format provided in the guidlines.


First a little background: I'm not necissarily new to PC gaming. I've been gaming on my laptop for a couple years now. I have a Lenovo Ideapad with an AMD A-10 4600M APU with an AMD Radeon HD 7660G. I have over 100 games on steam and I'm really loving PC gaming so far. But with this laptop I can only go so far, most games I can play at medium settings for a semi-decent framerate, while games like Battlefield 3 I can only play at the lowest settings with about 20-25 FPS. So long story short, I'm ready for an upgrade.

  • Budget. I'd say around 1500, possibly bump it up to 2000 if need be.
  • Where do you live: United States
  • No Retailer preferred, I like using newegg and amazon, but I'm mostly concerned about getting the best deals for the parts.
  • I'm going to need peripherals, definitely.
  • What will you be using your future computer for? Gaming, and I want to emulate using the Dolphin emulator.
  • Do you overclock or want to get into overclocking? Its not a requirement for me but I'm willing to try it out if it will get me better performance.
  • Do you plan on going for custom watercooling now, or in the future? For this build, No.
  • OS. Do you need a new one? Yes, I plan on getting either Windows 7 or 8.1. I want to hear reasons why one is preferred over the other.
  • What kind of settings do you like or what FPS do you want to play at? I want to be able to play most games at Max settings.
  • What resolution will you be playing at? I would like to be able to play games at 1080p.
  • What kind of games do you like to play? I like to play all kinds of games, I'm going to post a link to my steam profile just so you can see what I have, but I'm one of those gamers who likes to play a little bit of everything.
  • What kind of keyboard do you prefer? Mechanical, LED backlit preferred.
  • What type of mouse-grip do you have? Palm, claw, combination? I've never really used a mouse with a grip.
  • The only MMO I play is FFXIV as of now, occasionally I go back to EVE online.
  • What size monitor are you looking for, and what resolution? Screen type (IPS, S-IPS, TN, etc.), hertz (60, 120, etc.) This is where I need some help, all I want is something affordable while still looks good.

Thats about it, if theres anything I missed, let me know and I will be sure to clarify.

Steam : http://steamcommunity.com/id/halojedi360

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Hey man, welcome to the forum. You can do a LOT with 1500 bucks :) but here is a general system that I would recommend, http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/partlist/. Now I did not include an operating system. windows 7 64-bit is 92 bucks. This pc will literally play ANYTHING at a fantastic 60-70+ framerate. I have 1 stick of 8gigs of ram so that maybe in the future you could pick up 1 or 2 or 3 more sticks to get more ram, and so that if you max out the ram slots you can have 32 gigs :). As for the power supply, that is wayy more power than you need, which is good so that everything can run happily like little kittens :3. the case is completely optional, the water-cooler is as well. Hope this helped man!

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The link you posted isn't working for me, are you sure you posted it right?

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top left permalink, please!

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Don't quite know about monitors enough to recommend one.

Some build to work with: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2hvKs

Things you could change:

8GB of RAM would probably be sufficient for gaming, but games are starting to push and use more and more RAM.

SSD: Adata XPG is a pretty good SSD.  You can save some money if you don't need that much space with a ~128gb SSD.

GPU: If you don't mind a loud and hot card, the R9 290 is a great card(if you can find one, that is)

This build is upgradeable to use two graphics cards in SLI/Crossfire.  I feel that someone can still do better for the money, but this is a decent intel build to start out with as a baseline.