- Mar 2, 2012
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Hello (i hope this is the right forum to post this on)
I am contemplating the idea of making my own PC, specked for gaming. I was looking into a 700-900 pound budget without a monitor.
If you can give me any usefull insight thank you in advance, bellow I have provided all the information i Know/have found out, yet even if i have been using computers for more than 15 years, due to most being Macs, I have never looked into components and have little understanding on regards.
i am currently looking into sites providing ad hoc desktops (pcspecialist.com - ) and was looking into these markets. As i look at alternatives and prices I have mostly tackled the issue of video cards (it seems to me that if i want to use a computer for/also gaming then an nvidia graphic card would probably be a good option as would radeon. to be specific: i was thinking of mounting 2 1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 - DVI,HDMI,VGA - 3D Vision Ready which requires me to mount ASUS® P8Z68-V/GEN3: PCI-E 3.0 READY, SLI, CROSSFIREX mothercard. The mothercard change from the original spec proposed doesn't seem to cause much of a budged bump. yet i have not looked into mothercards yet and I am not really sure of the benefits it provdes etc. What causes a budget bump is using a intel processor rather than a AMD one and as to which is better for gaming uses i am not really sure. I was opting for an equivalent of an i5 and this seems to provide a 200 pound difference. from what i understood however the i5 gen (i would'nt go for a i3) perfomes better than the AMD so at the moment I lean towards a intel processor and an nvidia video card. is all this correct? if it is, what i am thinking is that if i have to opt for a i5 then it might be more sensible to mount a better graphic card instead of two? At the moment i dont really understand the benefits of 2 graphic cards rather than 1, can i play around with this? As can i mount a better graphic card (quality and memory) and would this make me save money rather than mounting two lower graphic cards? at the moment the only understanding i have on the issue is an article/review i found on an already made gaming computer which adresses the fact that it has only 1 g.c. and that you cant expect too much of it. with an eye to gaming will 2 1gb nvidia cards perform better than a signle 2gb nvidia card or the same tipe and would this save me money? I also realize i can add graphic cards later on, but I would like to start with a decent setup.
I came out with this setup: http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/results/
yet with an AMD processor the price goes down by a 100-150 pounds
I tried looking at articles on this website and some of the threads on the forums, as I attempt to educate myself on computer components but if you can provide me to links to articles on the topic i'd be very thankfull.
regards
I am contemplating the idea of making my own PC, specked for gaming. I was looking into a 700-900 pound budget without a monitor.
If you can give me any usefull insight thank you in advance, bellow I have provided all the information i Know/have found out, yet even if i have been using computers for more than 15 years, due to most being Macs, I have never looked into components and have little understanding on regards.
i am currently looking into sites providing ad hoc desktops (pcspecialist.com - ) and was looking into these markets. As i look at alternatives and prices I have mostly tackled the issue of video cards (it seems to me that if i want to use a computer for/also gaming then an nvidia graphic card would probably be a good option as would radeon. to be specific: i was thinking of mounting 2 1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 - DVI,HDMI,VGA - 3D Vision Ready which requires me to mount ASUS® P8Z68-V/GEN3: PCI-E 3.0 READY, SLI, CROSSFIREX mothercard. The mothercard change from the original spec proposed doesn't seem to cause much of a budged bump. yet i have not looked into mothercards yet and I am not really sure of the benefits it provdes etc. What causes a budget bump is using a intel processor rather than a AMD one and as to which is better for gaming uses i am not really sure. I was opting for an equivalent of an i5 and this seems to provide a 200 pound difference. from what i understood however the i5 gen (i would'nt go for a i3) perfomes better than the AMD so at the moment I lean towards a intel processor and an nvidia video card. is all this correct? if it is, what i am thinking is that if i have to opt for a i5 then it might be more sensible to mount a better graphic card instead of two? At the moment i dont really understand the benefits of 2 graphic cards rather than 1, can i play around with this? As can i mount a better graphic card (quality and memory) and would this make me save money rather than mounting two lower graphic cards? at the moment the only understanding i have on the issue is an article/review i found on an already made gaming computer which adresses the fact that it has only 1 g.c. and that you cant expect too much of it. with an eye to gaming will 2 1gb nvidia cards perform better than a signle 2gb nvidia card or the same tipe and would this save me money? I also realize i can add graphic cards later on, but I would like to start with a decent setup.
I came out with this setup: http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/results/
yet with an AMD processor the price goes down by a 100-150 pounds
I tried looking at articles on this website and some of the threads on the forums, as I attempt to educate myself on computer components but if you can provide me to links to articles on the topic i'd be very thankfull.
regards
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