- Budget. How much are you willing to spend?
- Where do you live (what country), and what currency do you use?
- -Is there a retailer you prefer?
- Do you need or already have peripherals? (this can add to costs)
- What will you be using your future computer for? Gaming? Rendering? Mix of both? Or is this a home media PC?
- Do you overclock or want to get into overclocking?
- Do you plan on going for custom watercooling now, or in the future?
- OS. Do you need a new one?
- I would like to get it in under USD$800
- USA USD$$$
- No
- Nothing other than a 2x USB keyboard and a wireless mouse at the moment
- I will be updating the mouse to something better for 3D graphics work soon. This shouldn’t require anything extra I wouldn’t thing. I can look into this more if needed
- Some gaming
- Mostly 3D graphics environments
- I have a particular program that I will need to support and will include it and it’s specs at the bottom of this list
- No overclocking needed – unless it’s needed to run what I need to run
- No but I do want a quite build
- No
If you Game-
- What kind of settings do you like or what FPS do you want to play at?
- What resolution will you be playing at? //or would like to play at.
- What kind of games do you like to play?
- What specific game will you be playing (if you only really play one)
- 1080p
- Puzzle games like Myst and Portal
If you Render or Edit things-
- What application do you use to render? (very important)
- Do you render movies or just photoshop pictures
- Not rendering per-say but I’ll be using software for the D3 video server
- http://r11.d3technologies.com/system-requirements-3
- I can actually run this on my Surface Pro 3 (i5 w/ 8gigs RAM) – I would want a smoother, and more reliable, experience than I am currently getting however
- And the ability to run a second monitor at the same time for my office work environment
- No movies
Other Notes:
- Please submit a PcPartpicker list as it's really easy to configure and edit. (you may have to change the URL to your region.)
- What is your general experience in building computers? Is this your first build or are you seasoned and just looking for advice?
- How do you submit a PcPartpicker list? Let me know and I’ll do it, I’ve already signed up for an account
- This will be my first build from scratch but I have put new RAM, hard drives, PCIM cards in machines before
- I also have some computer experience, well enough to be dangerous!
Sorry about the formatting, it came in a little strange
DaveK