Building a good gaming/recording/editing PC

Arcane Crusader

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Hello,

recently I have been hired to a well paid job and with the pay I get I decided it would finally be good to build my own PC since the one I have right now is pretty much on it's last legs.

However I have only a basic grasp of the inner hardware (what the individual components are for and such) and so things like CPU threads, components compatibility, etc. are beyond me.

I would like to build a decent PC for the purposes of mainly gaming but also recording gameplay and editing it along side other videos. I would like the PC to handle this without a problem as I am prepared to invest quite a good sum of money and I want this build to fill it's purpose well and last me for at least several years to come.

The only thing I ask is good RAM (at least 16GB preferably 32GB), but all other components are up to anyone's best judgement. Some of the games I would like to be able to play and record are Warhammer Total War and Kingdom Come: Deliverance, just to give you an idea of what I would like the system to handle.

My base budget is 1600$, in case someone would come up with a vastly better system that would be just out of reach of that price I am villing to invest up to 2000$.

Thanks to anyone in advance.
 

FranzVrolijk

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You could go with an Intel 7700K CPU, good bang for the buck, and also great performance. For the GPU I would recommend maybe a 1060 or some other Nvidia GPU simply because my experience recording and streaming games using Shadowplay has been great. Barely any performance loss in many titles. 16GB of DDR4 RAM is definitely sufficient for playing and recording games. It will serve you well if you're thinking of editing those recordings as well. RAM isn't all that expensive though, so if you really want 32GB I guess that wouldn't be a problem.

The other parts aren't as crucial to performance as these three, but of course an SSD and a closed water cooling system for your CPU would be nice if you want to spend the extra cash. You'll need a LGA1151-socket motherboard for this CPU, if you don't have plans on overclocking, I would just go with one of the B250-models from MSI, ASUS or GIGABYTE, they should serve you well enough. These aren't very power hungry components, but getting a good PSU so that you will have headspace for future upgrades wouldn't cost you too much either.

Some cheaper alternatives would be an i5-7600 and/or a Radeon RX580.
 
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor ($217.98 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-AB350-Gaming ATX AM4 Motherboard ($99.49 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LED 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($124.89 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Crucial MX300 275GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($90.89 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($66.89 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 8GB Superclocked Gaming ACX 3.0 Video Card ($499.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Phanteks ECLIPSE P400 ATX Mid Tower Case ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: SeaSonic G 550W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($69.39 @ SuperBiiz)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit ($89.98 @ NCIX US)
Monitor: Acer GN276HL bid 27.0" 1920x1080 144Hz Monitor ($239.99 @ Amazon)
Keyboard: Corsair STRAFE RGB Wired Gaming Keyboard ($109.99 @ Amazon)
Mouse: Logitech G502 Wired Optical Mouse ($62.11 @ Amazon)
Headphones: Corsair VOID 7.1 Channel Headset ($59.99 @ Corsair)
Total: $1791.57
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-04-20 08:30 EDT-0400
 
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