- Nov 21, 2013
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Hi everyone, new here, hoping for some advice from the more experienced 
I saw plenty of posts about choosing components for gaming pc's, but I still feel I should make my own, since I need different kind of information.
Here's the deal: I'm going to be playing starcraft2, civilization5, but I'd also like to be able to play BF4, WoW (the expansion yet to be released), Blizzard's new DoTA-clone, LoL, or other new stuff (if possible in high/top settings). I don't have anything at all, not even a mouse pad, so I need a pc, a monitor (22"+), keyboard, mouse, headset. I do have my operating system though (win7).
In general I'm against water cooling, don't care much for overclocking either (unless it doesn't require extra cooling, or if the benefit is really noticeable). If keeping down power consumption is an option - I'm all for it (like Haswell vs Ivy). Possibly a 2nd monitor in near future. Don't care at all about a fancy case (so no flashing lights, no led screens, nothing of that sort - same thing goes for other stuff, like keyboard, or mouse looking like a transformer - I'd rather spend that money on cpu/gpu/psu), doesn't have to be extra quiet either. As long as ventilation is ok and the components have reasonable temperatures - I'm happy. I'd love to have an SSD drive - I saw how fast things load when using that ^^
Money-wise, I'd like to get the most out of the money I'm gonna spend - I'm in Scotland now and after a quick look-around I see that regular shop prices are usually 20-30% higher then what I saw online (ebuyer, overclockers). Does shipping parts from US (newegg) make sense? I'd rather not wait 2 months for a repair/replacement if something breaks. If not, what's the best shop to get parts from in Scotland/UK - good cost, fast problem solving, reliable, etc? I'm guessing the games I'll be playing set the bar for components, thus the price, so I don't really need to specify that?
That's all I can think of right now - could someone specify a list - or better yet - a couple of those, with different price ranges? Would be cool. Cheers.
I saw plenty of posts about choosing components for gaming pc's, but I still feel I should make my own, since I need different kind of information.
Here's the deal: I'm going to be playing starcraft2, civilization5, but I'd also like to be able to play BF4, WoW (the expansion yet to be released), Blizzard's new DoTA-clone, LoL, or other new stuff (if possible in high/top settings). I don't have anything at all, not even a mouse pad, so I need a pc, a monitor (22"+), keyboard, mouse, headset. I do have my operating system though (win7).
In general I'm against water cooling, don't care much for overclocking either (unless it doesn't require extra cooling, or if the benefit is really noticeable). If keeping down power consumption is an option - I'm all for it (like Haswell vs Ivy). Possibly a 2nd monitor in near future. Don't care at all about a fancy case (so no flashing lights, no led screens, nothing of that sort - same thing goes for other stuff, like keyboard, or mouse looking like a transformer - I'd rather spend that money on cpu/gpu/psu), doesn't have to be extra quiet either. As long as ventilation is ok and the components have reasonable temperatures - I'm happy. I'd love to have an SSD drive - I saw how fast things load when using that ^^
Money-wise, I'd like to get the most out of the money I'm gonna spend - I'm in Scotland now and after a quick look-around I see that regular shop prices are usually 20-30% higher then what I saw online (ebuyer, overclockers). Does shipping parts from US (newegg) make sense? I'd rather not wait 2 months for a repair/replacement if something breaks. If not, what's the best shop to get parts from in Scotland/UK - good cost, fast problem solving, reliable, etc? I'm guessing the games I'll be playing set the bar for components, thus the price, so I don't really need to specify that?
That's all I can think of right now - could someone specify a list - or better yet - a couple of those, with different price ranges? Would be cool. Cheers.
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