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Hello everyone! I am a completely inexperienced PC person and was hoping to ask for all of your advice on building a custom PC designed for gaming. I used to love PC gaming when I was younger, but then got caught up in consoles and haven't owned/played a PC since 2006. I have tried researching this and looking at other threads but as I have basically no understanding of the difference in the CPUs, Memory, Video card, etc. I was hoping for some help. Lots of content I find on the internet tends to be dated by several months/years and I would like to find out the most up to date information. I copied a format from a sticky I saw on this site to hopefully provide you all with enough background info.
Approximate Purchase Date: The next couple weeks (the sooner the better if possible)
Budget Range: $600-$700 budget for the parts. I do not own a monitor/keyboard and mouse and will need to also purchase these
System Usaget: Gaming is my priority
Are you buying a monitor: Yes
Parts to Upgrade: I need to put together an entire PC
Do you need to buy OS: Yes
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: I have no preference but I have read pcpartpicker is great
Location: I live in the USA
Parts Preferences: Any brand as long as it is highly recommended, from what I have read a lot of gamers talk about NVIDEA and Intel cores
Overclocking: I don't think I would overclock? From my understanding it's working the graphics card harder than designed and I don't really see the reason if it might damage my PC
SLI or Crossfire: Sorry, I have no idea what this is.
Your Monitor Resolution: I would welcome reasonably priced suggestions for a good monitor. However, I was hoping to get my PC hooked up to my flat screen.
I was very close to purchasing a new PS4 but then started doing research on PCs and, by doing lots of research, have come to the conclusion my money is better spent building a custom PC. The one thing I always liked about playing on consoles is that I can lounge back in my couch and take advantage of my flat screen TV. I know this used to be an obstacle with PCs and I have seen youtube videos describing how to hook up your PC to the TV and even use an Xbox one controller with many games. The "next generation" consoles have already been out for a year and I can't think of any meaningful games designed just for them. I believe the PC has access to much better/much more games and I am looking at playing games such as Call of Duty, WoW, BF4, dragon age inquisition and many others. I have also heard about Steam and have looked into it, is this an operating system like Microsoft? Or do you need Microsoft on your PC to download steam after?
Thank you for reading my entire post and I would greatly appreciate any feedback you can provide on the best parts I should look at for building a custom PC, as well as answers for some of the other questions I posed!
Approximate Purchase Date: The next couple weeks (the sooner the better if possible)
Budget Range: $600-$700 budget for the parts. I do not own a monitor/keyboard and mouse and will need to also purchase these
System Usaget: Gaming is my priority
Are you buying a monitor: Yes
Parts to Upgrade: I need to put together an entire PC
Do you need to buy OS: Yes
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: I have no preference but I have read pcpartpicker is great
Location: I live in the USA
Parts Preferences: Any brand as long as it is highly recommended, from what I have read a lot of gamers talk about NVIDEA and Intel cores
Overclocking: I don't think I would overclock? From my understanding it's working the graphics card harder than designed and I don't really see the reason if it might damage my PC
SLI or Crossfire: Sorry, I have no idea what this is.
Your Monitor Resolution: I would welcome reasonably priced suggestions for a good monitor. However, I was hoping to get my PC hooked up to my flat screen.
I was very close to purchasing a new PS4 but then started doing research on PCs and, by doing lots of research, have come to the conclusion my money is better spent building a custom PC. The one thing I always liked about playing on consoles is that I can lounge back in my couch and take advantage of my flat screen TV. I know this used to be an obstacle with PCs and I have seen youtube videos describing how to hook up your PC to the TV and even use an Xbox one controller with many games. The "next generation" consoles have already been out for a year and I can't think of any meaningful games designed just for them. I believe the PC has access to much better/much more games and I am looking at playing games such as Call of Duty, WoW, BF4, dragon age inquisition and many others. I have also heard about Steam and have looked into it, is this an operating system like Microsoft? Or do you need Microsoft on your PC to download steam after?
Thank you for reading my entire post and I would greatly appreciate any feedback you can provide on the best parts I should look at for building a custom PC, as well as answers for some of the other questions I posed!
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