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Rjbarker719

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So a few age old questions.
1. Should I buy all my parts in 1 go or piece by piece. The reason I ask this is I am pretty bad when it comes to saving money (sad I know) and if so what parts should I get just so I have my motivation sitting in my corner.
2. What's a reasonable budget for a gaming pc? I currently am just working and paying my phone bill and my car insurance which isn't that much. I was thinking the $1200 dollar range.
3. I have an old Visio that's just gathering dust and I am wondering if that would make a decent monitor till I can get a real one.
 
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1. If you buy peice by peice than you can save money overall. For example, one week Newegg has the harddrive you want on sale and Tigerdirect is offering a free game with the video card that you want. Next week, Amazon has power supplies with 20$ mail in rebates and Newegg has core i5s on sale. Over a 1200$ build it would be pretty easy to save 50-100$ on parts overall if you bought everything over a month or so. Just make sure you set a deadline to have everything or else you might end up waiting way longer than you really need to.

Not completely sure i understand the second half of question One but if i wanted something to motivate me to keep buyen stuff than i would go and buy a big phat video card and sit it were i see it every...
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The problem with buying piece by piece is that new stuff comes out and prices drop on the old stuff, and you may have wished you waited for the new stuff. The other side of that argument is that you may save money if you don't care as much about getting the newest stuff.
 
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1) - Well it depends. People mainly buy in pieces when they can't afford to buy the whole rig in one go. I don't see any other reason

2) - Again it depends on what you find reasonable. 1200$ ? That's really great. You can get a hell of a gaming rig

3) - ???
 
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bootloop

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1. If you buy peice by peice than you can save money overall. For example, one week Newegg has the harddrive you want on sale and Tigerdirect is offering a free game with the video card that you want. Next week, Amazon has power supplies with 20$ mail in rebates and Newegg has core i5s on sale. Over a 1200$ build it would be pretty easy to save 50-100$ on parts overall if you bought everything over a month or so. Just make sure you set a deadline to have everything or else you might end up waiting way longer than you really need to.

Not completely sure i understand the second half of question One but if i wanted something to motivate me to keep buyen stuff than i would go and buy a big phat video card and sit it were i see it every day. This will keep you motivated because you will be like "wow, soon im going to be able to play games with that! " Just make sure its actually the card that you want and it fits within your budget and is compatable with your case, PSU, MB, etc.

2. Your budget depends on what you want to do. If you want to game at 120hz(framerate) it will cost you more than a pc that games at 60hz(framerate). A triple monitor capable pc will cost more than dual monitor capable pc. You have to figure out what you want to do and then look at benchmarks to figure how much you need to spend to do what you want.

3. Knowing nothing about your visio monitor i would say no, dont use it, buy another. When it comes to gaming, if you have a old/low end monitor than it wont be nearly as fun. Im on Newegg right now and they have 200-300 dollar monitors that are 1080p, LED backlit with 2ms response times. I would just raise my budget to accomodate one if you hadnt worked it in already.
 
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One thing that I don't see mentioned is if you buy your parts in pieces and don't use them right away you may get a DOA hardware and not know it. When it comes time to return it you may have exceeded the return window with your merchant and have to deal with the manufacturer. That is the main reason I buy everything at once.

$1200 is a good range for a gaming PC. Even better if you aren't including the monitor and peripherals like mouse and keyboard.

I have used old monitors but it does depend on the connectors. right now I use a nice 24" dell monitor but have a 19" next to it to watch TV or movies while I game.
 
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Yes i did forget to mention this. Probably because when i buy parts its easy enough for me to put them into an old system and test them, but if OP doesnt have any old/compatable systems to test components in then DOA hardware becomes a concern.

 
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