- Dec 13, 2013
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Hi, new user here. I live in the US. Over the past month or so I have been all over Tom's Hardware researching CPUs and GPUs and all the different builds. I am new to custom rigs so I excuse me if I sound like I know nothing. Since my build is about a month away, I will be looking to keep my eye on the parts suggested in this thread.
In the upcoming new year, I will be looking to build a gaming desktop. The games I am most interested in are MMORPGs and action games, especially all the amazing upcoming games in Korea, I have never been much of a fan of FPS games in general.
These are my main priorities for this build as I am very open to suggestions:
-stay within $1000-$1200 to make room for accessories like monitors, keyboards, mouse, etc. (the less the better)
-max out all games for the next 2-5 years (let me know if this is an unreasonable expectation with the rest of my priorities)
-definitely looking to overclock CPU
For the CPU I am definitely interested in the i5-4670k or i7-4770k. I did a lot of reading and the Haswell CPUs aren't that much of a difference from the Ivy Bridge ones in terms of performance. But I am not upgrading and building this rig from scratch so I figured the Haswell CPUs are a better choice. Also, I read that the Haswell's overclocking potential is not as great as the Ivy Bridge ones. Please give me your 2 cents on this.
For the GPU, I am pretty much set on the GTX 770 unless I can be swayed to another GPU. On the list for best GPUs of the month by Tom's Hardware, it shows the 280x at $300 but I can only find them around the same price as the 770 so that's why I figured I would go for the 770.
As for the MOBO, I am looking at a price of $200 max, I know there are some great ones at just around $220 so I think I can stretch my budget to that as well.
For the PSU, I admit that I have no significant knowledge on this so any suggestions will be appreciated. For RAM, 8 gigs will do for now unless I can find a good deal for 16gigs. Since I do plan to overclock my CPU, I was looking at the H100i since I heard great things, but thats only if it is needed. I simply plan on overclocking to anywhere between 4 and 4.3 GHz as a starting point. Any tower case will do, I would prefer a nice case with lights to match the rest of my components. For the HDD, 500GB to 1TB will do, I have never even used up a full 500 GB HDD. Definitely looking to get an SDD. Don't need a DVD drive, already have one.
As for accessories $200 max for a monitor with nice speakers, $50 for a keyboard and $50 for a mouse.
I am sure I am missing some things in this post, so please ask away if you have any questions. Again, I am very open to any sort of suggestions for the build. I can easily be swayed to go with the Ivy Bridge CPUs. Sorry this turned out to be such a long post.
In the upcoming new year, I will be looking to build a gaming desktop. The games I am most interested in are MMORPGs and action games, especially all the amazing upcoming games in Korea, I have never been much of a fan of FPS games in general.
These are my main priorities for this build as I am very open to suggestions:
-stay within $1000-$1200 to make room for accessories like monitors, keyboards, mouse, etc. (the less the better)
-max out all games for the next 2-5 years (let me know if this is an unreasonable expectation with the rest of my priorities)
-definitely looking to overclock CPU
For the CPU I am definitely interested in the i5-4670k or i7-4770k. I did a lot of reading and the Haswell CPUs aren't that much of a difference from the Ivy Bridge ones in terms of performance. But I am not upgrading and building this rig from scratch so I figured the Haswell CPUs are a better choice. Also, I read that the Haswell's overclocking potential is not as great as the Ivy Bridge ones. Please give me your 2 cents on this.
For the GPU, I am pretty much set on the GTX 770 unless I can be swayed to another GPU. On the list for best GPUs of the month by Tom's Hardware, it shows the 280x at $300 but I can only find them around the same price as the 770 so that's why I figured I would go for the 770.
As for the MOBO, I am looking at a price of $200 max, I know there are some great ones at just around $220 so I think I can stretch my budget to that as well.
For the PSU, I admit that I have no significant knowledge on this so any suggestions will be appreciated. For RAM, 8 gigs will do for now unless I can find a good deal for 16gigs. Since I do plan to overclock my CPU, I was looking at the H100i since I heard great things, but thats only if it is needed. I simply plan on overclocking to anywhere between 4 and 4.3 GHz as a starting point. Any tower case will do, I would prefer a nice case with lights to match the rest of my components. For the HDD, 500GB to 1TB will do, I have never even used up a full 500 GB HDD. Definitely looking to get an SDD. Don't need a DVD drive, already have one.
As for accessories $200 max for a monitor with nice speakers, $50 for a keyboard and $50 for a mouse.
I am sure I am missing some things in this post, so please ask away if you have any questions. Again, I am very open to any sort of suggestions for the build. I can easily be swayed to go with the Ivy Bridge CPUs. Sorry this turned out to be such a long post.
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