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I've been wanting to buy a gaming PC I have a budget of about 2000$ maybe a little more so i was wondering if i should buy a pre-built or build my own (i don't know how to build a pc but everyone says its easy) so what should i go for and how much money can i save if i build it.
P.S this price is for the pc not including anything else.
 
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If you've never built a PC before, there is certainly plenty of time to learn. Perhaps look up some youtube videos on system building. Newegg as well as many other companies post DIY videos on system building. To be honest its really not that difficult, you just have to be patient and ensure that your workspace is clear/static free and you're using an anti-static wristband (although you don't HAVE to).

Here is part 1 of a 3 part series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPIXAtNGGCw

There are pro's and con's to building vs buying and most of it revolves around the support for the product itself. When you're building it..you're responsible for it. If you buy it from a vendor/manufacturer ..they've got to handle the warranty/support...
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If you've never built a PC before, there is certainly plenty of time to learn. Perhaps look up some youtube videos on system building. Newegg as well as many other companies post DIY videos on system building. To be honest its really not that difficult, you just have to be patient and ensure that your workspace is clear/static free and you're using an anti-static wristband (although you don't HAVE to).

Here is part 1 of a 3 part series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPIXAtNGGCw

There are pro's and con's to building vs buying and most of it revolves around the support for the product itself. When you're building it..you're responsible for it. If you buy it from a vendor/manufacturer ..they've got to handle the warranty/support aspect of it.

However building your own PC is often much cheaper and it will allow you to customize the build to your needs much more easily without having to pay a premium to a system builder to swap out parts to get it setup how you'd like.

In any case, an easy way to see the pricing difference right off the bat is to find a pre-build machine you like..and then shop around for all the parts yourself and then compare the price.

 
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The biggest advantages to building your own are:
1- you know exactly what went into it instead of getting whatever the OEM put in there
2- you are not limited to the parts your specific OEM or computer shop carries and is willing to put in your order (particularly annoying with large OEMs that have only specific options available in specific model lines even though the hardware is plain standard parts that would work in any PC)
3- you usually get better value for your money since you are not paying for the OEM's labor and extra markup on prices

Disadvantages:
1- if you mess something up, you are on your own
 
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You're going high on on everything but one of the most important parts...the GPU. Why do you need 32GB of Ram? You're also getting a crap ton of HDD/SSD Space..do you really need 3TB and 256MB SSD? Unless you're doing photo editing/photoshop and/or plan to use RAMDisk to use 16GB of your memory to load photoshop..whats the point?

Also, at this point you might as well wait another 1-2 weeks and get the devil's canyon CPU and get a z97 board.
 
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If this is really going to be a gaming PC on a $2000 budget, you might want to get the i5-4670k and use the $100 freed there to get a R7-270X instead of a R7-260X. You will need something a lot more powerful to drive displays at close to 144Hz... even more so a pair of them. You should be shooting for at least a R9-290X if you are serious about hitting 144Hz without turning details down many notches.

All remotely recent motherboards have on-board sound so the sound card is not really necessary unless you are specially picky about sound.

32GB RAM is a "bit" excessive if all you are going to be doing is gaming... many people here consider 16GB overkill already. Use this ~$150 to bump your GPU choice up to R9-280X or better.

450W will be a bit tight for comfort. If you bump the GPU to R9-290X level by cutting elsewhere, you will want to aim for a high-quality PSU over 550W. One common recommendation here is the XFX 550W or other similar rebranded Seasonic units.

 
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I'd agree. He can cut about $500-600 dollars on some of his choices and put it toward a better GPU. I'm not too familiar with PC parts picker, but some of these prices are higher than what you can even get the items for now..so there's some margin for error too.

Going for the new devils canyon i5 and a z97 board makes sense as this point..you don't need an i7 for gaming. I just don't get spending $300 on RAM to then spend so little on one of the most important parts..the GPU.

perhaps check out..

http://www.logicalincrements.com/
 
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tried to make it better though idk whats best cuz I'm very new to these stuff and ill add the devil cpu when it comes out….btw do i need case fans??IDK what MB i should get all the mini ones (16gb ram) are short on PCI express or something like that so i went for a pretty much random one (well i looked at the ratings and chose a good rated one) Thanks for the help!!
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/nNZjNG
 
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Got the asus R9 290X is it good enough??Another question is how many fans do i need?And if I screw up can i damage any part by failing to assemble the PC,,,,,,I watched the new egg tutorial are there more that could help?
 
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Yes it is good enough, that is one of the higher end cards you can get. The case itself shows it has 4 fans so that should be plenty and you seem to have picked out a good CPU cooler. One thing I didn't see listed is thermal paste such as artic silver 5 but your CPU cooler might have some on it already.
 
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