Building a system

[H2S04]

Howdy,

Going to build a Win 7 pro x64 system and I'm looking for some suggestions in MB, CPU and Graphics card. In the past I have always used ASUS MB, AMD CPU and ATI/AMD graphics card back in the day when ATI made video cards.

Intended use and not limited to the below items :

- some gaming noting to serious
- office use(word, excel..etc)
- multimedia ,streaming to HDTV,

Cheers,

H2S04

 

[zachparr2442]

budget? and amd or intell

 

[Cryoburn101]

Budget is probably one of the most important bits of info we need for helping you with a build.
It will dictate what parts we can use. A 1k build will be much better than a build for 500.

 

[zachparr2442]

You can get decent gaming computer for 500$ and play most games at med-high setting and 1k will get you one that will play most at high-ultra at a higher frame rate

 

[LucoTF]

Budget is probably one of the most important bits of info we need for helping you with a build.
It will dictate what parts we can use. A 1k build will be much better than a build for 500.

I think case fan LED color is more important than budget. Come on OP, tell us what case fan LED color you need!

 

[Cryoburn101]

You can get decent gaming computer for 500$ and play most games at med-high setting and 1k will get you one that will play most at high-ultra at a higher frame rate

I never said you couldn't get a decent build for $500... Plenty of great options for that price. But you can still get better performance by a substantial amount for $1000. My point was what price was the OP aiming for. I used the pricing 500-1000 difference to show how budget is a bit important. Is the budget unlimited? Is it $1250? Is it £400?

LucoTF -
LED fan is definitely more important. I totally forgot about that, doh! I prefer infrared lights on mine.

 

[zachparr2442]

i like purple fans and green neon tubing with uv purple lights

 

[LucoTF]

i like purple fans and green neon tubing with uv purple lights

That sounds... festive lol

I'm a red man myself. I know blue is kinda in right now but I like the deep reds

 

[zachparr2442]

yah i like mardi gra

 

[H2S04]

1k would be my budget range AMD or Intel I'm open....

 

[zachparr2442]

do you have a OS already ?

 

[zachparr2442]

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/nJCWzy amd
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/sDbH7P intel

 

[H2S04]

thx...OS not ready

what do you think of this case

Corsair Carbide Series Air 540 High Airflow ATX Cube Case ?

zachparr2442..thx for the links do you suggest any other type of MB for AMD or Intel?

 

[zachparr2442]

are you going to be overclocking or anything ? and what is the computers main use?

 

[zachparr2442]

that case is cool and everything just costly, do you what something like that or something like a micro atx

 

[H2S04]

Intended use and not limited to the below items :

- some gaming noting to serious
- office use(word, excel..etc)
- multimedia ,streaming to HDTV,

I would like to stick with atx

 

[zachparr2442]

the amd built i sent you above is going to be a good deal, also if you ever want yo ucan save a little money by buying second hand parts off ebay.

 

[LucoTF]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4440 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor ($179.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85M-HD3 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($49.99 @ TigerDirect)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($78.85 @ B&H)
Storage: Crucial MX100 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($74.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($54.98 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R7 260X 2GB Video Card ($99.99 @ Newegg)
Case: BitFenix Merc Alpha (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($34.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: EVGA 430W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply ($25.98 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: LG UH12NS30 Blu-Ray Reader, DVD/CD Writer ($34.99 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/RSBS DVD/CD Writer ($21.98 @ OutletPC)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($84.98 @ OutletPC)
Total: $741.70
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-07-29 03:49 EDT-0400

I didn't go crazy on the graphics card, but I added an SSD and bluray player.

 

[H2S04]

thx...all will take your recommendations and put them to use...i may increase my budget to 1.5k for a better MB and video card any recommendations?