Hi everyone,
I've never completed a home build before but want to toy around a bit. Budget isn't really an issue but I'm not out to waste money. If I could come in around $1,500 that would be ideal. I've put together the following:
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/lul1
Some questions:
1. I have no idea how to determine what power supply to use.
2. I have a couple monitors around the house already - one from a pre-bought Dell desktop that is about 4 years old. The other is from a work system that I have home that I could use that is about 2-3 years old, both are 17". I'm assuming the resolutions on these are decent but not great. Becasue of this I have not listed a monitor in the build but don't want to have a great build only to play games on a crappy monitor.
3. I use PCs at work but all our home based computers are Macs - because of that I don't even know which version of Windows I would use. We (my son and I) predominatly play Starcraft 2 on the iMac (high end one 27" screen, i7 processor). Am trying to improve upon that experience and expand to other graphics intensive games.
4. I am generally handy but tinkering with insides of computers has never really been more than adding some memory but think it would be fun to learn.
Mostly looking for advice along the lines of whether what I put together makes sense, is a decent bang for the buck, or some obvious incompativility issues, etc. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
I've never completed a home build before but want to toy around a bit. Budget isn't really an issue but I'm not out to waste money. If I could come in around $1,500 that would be ideal. I've put together the following:
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/lul1
Some questions:
1. I have no idea how to determine what power supply to use.
2. I have a couple monitors around the house already - one from a pre-bought Dell desktop that is about 4 years old. The other is from a work system that I have home that I could use that is about 2-3 years old, both are 17". I'm assuming the resolutions on these are decent but not great. Becasue of this I have not listed a monitor in the build but don't want to have a great build only to play games on a crappy monitor.
3. I use PCs at work but all our home based computers are Macs - because of that I don't even know which version of Windows I would use. We (my son and I) predominatly play Starcraft 2 on the iMac (high end one 27" screen, i7 processor). Am trying to improve upon that experience and expand to other graphics intensive games.
4. I am generally handy but tinkering with insides of computers has never really been more than adding some memory but think it would be fun to learn.
Mostly looking for advice along the lines of whether what I put together makes sense, is a decent bang for the buck, or some obvious incompativility issues, etc. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
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