Hi all, I am planning to build a desktop that I want to run basic tasks fast, and be pretty good at gaming.
Here are some things I will be doing commonly:
In terms of gaming, I have mostly older games, such as Borderlands 2, Black Ops (1), minecraft (I want shaders). Nothing that new at the moment. I would like for these games to run on fairly high settings at 1080p. I may want to buy more modern games, such as GTA 5 or fallout 4, and have pretty good graphics and FPS. All my gaming will be on a 1080p monitor and I have no plans to upgrade, so that will be the desired resolution.
My budget is around £500 and so anything near there will be good. I am after a good value PC, not a cheap one.
At last, time for what I have so far!
I've made it on partpicker but, the website is currently down so here is a screenshot I have instead...
Are these components reasonably balanced (no major bottleneck), are they good value or would a slightly different model/type be better?
For example, should I get the FX-8350 which is 4.0GHz instead of 3.0GHz for just £20 more?
Also, the graphics card is £100 because I know a friend who is selling it. It may not be that exact brand but, I know it's a GTX 670 2GB. Of course, I don't have to buy this card but, it seemed like a good card at a good price.
Any advice is greatly appreciated, thank you!
Adam.
Here are some things I will be doing commonly:
Chrome (web browsing)
Software development (compiling code)
Video editing (rendering videos)
Gaming
In terms of gaming, I have mostly older games, such as Borderlands 2, Black Ops (1), minecraft (I want shaders). Nothing that new at the moment. I would like for these games to run on fairly high settings at 1080p. I may want to buy more modern games, such as GTA 5 or fallout 4, and have pretty good graphics and FPS. All my gaming will be on a 1080p monitor and I have no plans to upgrade, so that will be the desired resolution.
My budget is around £500 and so anything near there will be good. I am after a good value PC, not a cheap one.
At last, time for what I have so far!
I've made it on partpicker but, the website is currently down so here is a screenshot I have instead...
Are these components reasonably balanced (no major bottleneck), are they good value or would a slightly different model/type be better?
For example, should I get the FX-8350 which is 4.0GHz instead of 3.0GHz for just £20 more?
Also, the graphics card is £100 because I know a friend who is selling it. It may not be that exact brand but, I know it's a GTX 670 2GB. Of course, I don't have to buy this card but, it seemed like a good card at a good price.
Any advice is greatly appreciated, thank you!
Adam.
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