- May 21, 2017
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I am building my first HTPC/GAMING pc. I know it don't take much to have a decent htpc but gaming on the other hand in not to familiar about. Right now I got a new MB (MSI z97 gaming 5 Intel) but this is it so far lol. This pc is going to replace the pc I have in my theater room right now so having it as my htpc first is my number 1 priority. Also other then watching movies, the odd Internet surfing, listen to my music (sound quality is very important) I don't do any crazy video editing or autocad or anything else other then gaming that's very CPU intensive. Anyways to my problem /questions.
Eventually I'm planning to get a video card so I'm not sure if needing the best/fastest CPU is that important specially if I'm going to get a video card. In my situation and for what I'll be using this pc for will I see that much difference between a i3 or i5 or i7???
Question 2 - RAM how much ram do I need and what speed (ram specs is probably my least understood part of building a pc. I've read countless pages of info trying to teach myself but I think I'm even more confused now)
Question 3- video card?? 5-10yrs ago I know the more ram the video card had meant better but now days I don't think it's the most important part anymore. I come to this conclusion because I see 4 and 5 gb gddr3/4/5 video cards that are far cheaper then allot of 512MB/1GB video cards, this coming from all the top video card manufacturers. (I'm probably going to lean towards a MSI nvidia geforce video card only because I think using the same brand video card as my MB is better). Any good advice will be appreciated. I don't have allot of money so saving as much money as possible is a must. I'm not trying to impress anyone but myself and I'm not looking for any bragging rights so I don't think the $900 i7 unlocked CPU is really a need lol at least I hope not.
Eventually I'm planning to get a video card so I'm not sure if needing the best/fastest CPU is that important specially if I'm going to get a video card. In my situation and for what I'll be using this pc for will I see that much difference between a i3 or i5 or i7???
Question 2 - RAM how much ram do I need and what speed (ram specs is probably my least understood part of building a pc. I've read countless pages of info trying to teach myself but I think I'm even more confused now)
Question 3- video card?? 5-10yrs ago I know the more ram the video card had meant better but now days I don't think it's the most important part anymore. I come to this conclusion because I see 4 and 5 gb gddr3/4/5 video cards that are far cheaper then allot of 512MB/1GB video cards, this coming from all the top video card manufacturers. (I'm probably going to lean towards a MSI nvidia geforce video card only because I think using the same brand video card as my MB is better). Any good advice will be appreciated. I don't have allot of money so saving as much money as possible is a must. I'm not trying to impress anyone but myself and I'm not looking for any bragging rights so I don't think the $900 i7 unlocked CPU is really a need lol at least I hope not.
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