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Nick James
I'm not asking for a monster gaming computer that would cost around $3000. I'm talking about a suitable one that can get atleast 45 fps on first person shooters with max graphics. I've seen some good ones for $600, but I'm willing to spend $1000 - $1500.
Answer
When doing perfect shopping, using Newegg for Avatar, CyberpowerPC, iBuypower brands and willing to change out the power supply, the savings versus build your own is often very small, especially for the ones they cut in price because of customer dissatisfaction about what they bought.
In building your own, I believe it is best to use the addage, plan twice and cut once. It should take a lot more time to figure out what to get, then the mechanical processes of ordering and assembling and install and test. You should be willing to learn about each component available, and that also allows future upgrade and repair and issue resolving to be much easier, and avoiding those future potentials.
You have the ability to decide your goals.
- Highest gaming performance per dollar spent
- Aiming performance towards particular games and function needs. Some need strong CPUs and Crysis-3 seems to use hyperthreading and all the cores(even 8 core) where most other use only 4 cores or less. Video editing takes a strong CPU+RAM and a solid state drive. Internet speed takes an SSD to improve it by the cache storage.
- Quality, stability, reliability
- Upgradability - ease of upgrade - (It costs more for a proper 2 PCIe x 16 motherboard and better power supply than you need up-front and the better air flow of a good case, but it allows a simple add of a second graphics card in crossfire/SLI). CPU sets the motherboard options, setting up the CPU upgrade options.
- Appearance, aesthetics inside and out
You need to hone down exactly what you want to spend within about $50, and if you want more help from hardware guys like me, you will have to name particular games more than a category. Are you ONLY interested in first person shooter games, or might you expand to others.
General use cpu benchmarking:
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php
Gaming CPU hierarchy:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-5.html
Graphics scores of GPUs
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu_list.php
Comparing GPUs
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/548?vs=647
http://www.game-debate.com/gpu/index.php?gid=1544&gid2=930&compare=geforce-gtx-660-ti-sli-vs-radeon-hd-7870-gigabyte-oc-edition
And, the very important shopping and compatibility:
http://pcpartpicker.com/
Graphics card power supply auxiliary connectors and a minimum wattage of high quality PSU
http://www.realhardtechx.com/index_archivos/Page362.htm
Understanding power supply selection basics, which is the least focused and one of the most important choices:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aigzi8eFQTFGu0SOGArME8vty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20130607111644AAfBajN
Pre-built PCs often use the cheapest power supplies and motherboards, and your advantage in building your own is choosing better parts that won't cause issues.
You can get a great gaming PC probably about GTX 770 and intel core i5 overclocked with a good motherboard and SSD towards the top end of your price that would be a tier one gaming pc with ultra play. The monitor/display is very key also. Is that included in your price, and keyboard and mouse and speakers, headset, etc. You need to list what is included.
Parts compatibility and optimizing is key. In PCPARTPICKER you can share a link to a part list and ask for improvements with a price in mind. They have sample builds, so I'll skip that minor task here for now. I preferred to give you the meat of the process. Watch youtube videos about the construction and take digital photos of an inside of an existing pc to be able to duplicate it.
Adding: Are you near a Microcenter for their in-store specials?
http://www.microcenter.com/site/stores/default.aspx
When doing perfect shopping, using Newegg for Avatar, CyberpowerPC, iBuypower brands and willing to change out the power supply, the savings versus build your own is often very small, especially for the ones they cut in price because of customer dissatisfaction about what they bought.
In building your own, I believe it is best to use the addage, plan twice and cut once. It should take a lot more time to figure out what to get, then the mechanical processes of ordering and assembling and install and test. You should be willing to learn about each component available, and that also allows future upgrade and repair and issue resolving to be much easier, and avoiding those future potentials.
You have the ability to decide your goals.
- Highest gaming performance per dollar spent
- Aiming performance towards particular games and function needs. Some need strong CPUs and Crysis-3 seems to use hyperthreading and all the cores(even 8 core) where most other use only 4 cores or less. Video editing takes a strong CPU+RAM and a solid state drive. Internet speed takes an SSD to improve it by the cache storage.
- Quality, stability, reliability
- Upgradability - ease of upgrade - (It costs more for a proper 2 PCIe x 16 motherboard and better power supply than you need up-front and the better air flow of a good case, but it allows a simple add of a second graphics card in crossfire/SLI). CPU sets the motherboard options, setting up the CPU upgrade options.
- Appearance, aesthetics inside and out
You need to hone down exactly what you want to spend within about $50, and if you want more help from hardware guys like me, you will have to name particular games more than a category. Are you ONLY interested in first person shooter games, or might you expand to others.
General use cpu benchmarking:
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php
Gaming CPU hierarchy:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-5.html
Graphics scores of GPUs
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu_list.php
Comparing GPUs
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/548?vs=647
http://www.game-debate.com/gpu/index.php?gid=1544&gid2=930&compare=geforce-gtx-660-ti-sli-vs-radeon-hd-7870-gigabyte-oc-edition
And, the very important shopping and compatibility:
http://pcpartpicker.com/
Graphics card power supply auxiliary connectors and a minimum wattage of high quality PSU
http://www.realhardtechx.com/index_archivos/Page362.htm
Understanding power supply selection basics, which is the least focused and one of the most important choices:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aigzi8eFQTFGu0SOGArME8vty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20130607111644AAfBajN
Pre-built PCs often use the cheapest power supplies and motherboards, and your advantage in building your own is choosing better parts that won't cause issues.
You can get a great gaming PC probably about GTX 770 and intel core i5 overclocked with a good motherboard and SSD towards the top end of your price that would be a tier one gaming pc with ultra play. The monitor/display is very key also. Is that included in your price, and keyboard and mouse and speakers, headset, etc. You need to list what is included.
Parts compatibility and optimizing is key. In PCPARTPICKER you can share a link to a part list and ask for improvements with a price in mind. They have sample builds, so I'll skip that minor task here for now. I preferred to give you the meat of the process. Watch youtube videos about the construction and take digital photos of an inside of an existing pc to be able to duplicate it.
Adding: Are you near a Microcenter for their in-store specials?
http://www.microcenter.com/site/stores/default.aspx
How can I build a good gaming CPU?
Stefan Naj
I want to know how to build a good gaming CPU I do not want to buy a Alienware or anything fancy I just want to know hot to build my own because I herd its tons cheaper. Thanks!
Answer
It can be several hundred bucks cheaper than a Alienware and a few hundred bucks cheaper than an ibuypower.com brand PC. Building yourself is tons cheaper. In my case, since I love computer hardware as much as I do, I can build a more powerful PC for the same price as an Alienware.
Like others have pointed out, CPU is the processor, aka Central Processing Unit.
It comes down to knowing what 9 or 10 parts you need to build the tower. Let's not worry about the smaller stuff such as the monitor and keyboard, worry about the tower first. Then you need to know what type of parts are compatible with another. For example, all motherboards are built to suit a certain CPU. Compatibility is a huge concern because of socket types. You can't place a Socket 1156 Intel Core i5-760 CPU onto a z68 Socket 1155 motherboard.
You need to first find out how to match the RAM, Motherboard, and CPU together. The rest is fairly easy.
Obviously for gaming the graphics card is the biggest deal. You might end up spending more on this part than others. For gaming on a 1080p monitor I would suggest cards like the 6950 or GTX 560ti. The catch is the new Radeon 7000 series and the newer Nvidia cards are coming out in the near future. The higher end Radeon 7900 series cards are already out on the market.
You will need to familiarize yourself with what card is what. It would be a good idea to look up benchmarks on graphics cards and pay close attention to the screen resolution in the benchmarks. 1920 x 1200 is a common screen resolution that's tested, since it's close to a 1080p (1920x1080) that would be the one to watch. You can also comb through newegg.com to get an idea as to what the prices are.
Nvidia cards will work on AMD motherboard/CPU platforms and AMD Radeon cards will work on Intel Core i3/i5/i7 platforms.
here's a list of the 9-10 parts you need for a gaming PC.
CPU/Processor
Motherboard
RAM
Case/Tower
Power Supply
Hard Drive
Graphics Card
DVD/CD Drive ($20 OEM part)
OEM copy of Windows (System Builder)
CPU cooler (in most cases the processor comes with a cheap stock cooler) You will need a CPU cooler if you want to overclock the processor.
There are plenty of Youtube video that show you how to assemble a PC. If you spend time doing research, then shopping for the right parts you want, you will find the assembly part to be the easiest compared to all the reading that you can do.
It can be several hundred bucks cheaper than a Alienware and a few hundred bucks cheaper than an ibuypower.com brand PC. Building yourself is tons cheaper. In my case, since I love computer hardware as much as I do, I can build a more powerful PC for the same price as an Alienware.
Like others have pointed out, CPU is the processor, aka Central Processing Unit.
It comes down to knowing what 9 or 10 parts you need to build the tower. Let's not worry about the smaller stuff such as the monitor and keyboard, worry about the tower first. Then you need to know what type of parts are compatible with another. For example, all motherboards are built to suit a certain CPU. Compatibility is a huge concern because of socket types. You can't place a Socket 1156 Intel Core i5-760 CPU onto a z68 Socket 1155 motherboard.
You need to first find out how to match the RAM, Motherboard, and CPU together. The rest is fairly easy.
Obviously for gaming the graphics card is the biggest deal. You might end up spending more on this part than others. For gaming on a 1080p monitor I would suggest cards like the 6950 or GTX 560ti. The catch is the new Radeon 7000 series and the newer Nvidia cards are coming out in the near future. The higher end Radeon 7900 series cards are already out on the market.
You will need to familiarize yourself with what card is what. It would be a good idea to look up benchmarks on graphics cards and pay close attention to the screen resolution in the benchmarks. 1920 x 1200 is a common screen resolution that's tested, since it's close to a 1080p (1920x1080) that would be the one to watch. You can also comb through newegg.com to get an idea as to what the prices are.
Nvidia cards will work on AMD motherboard/CPU platforms and AMD Radeon cards will work on Intel Core i3/i5/i7 platforms.
here's a list of the 9-10 parts you need for a gaming PC.
CPU/Processor
Motherboard
RAM
Case/Tower
Power Supply
Hard Drive
Graphics Card
DVD/CD Drive ($20 OEM part)
OEM copy of Windows (System Builder)
CPU cooler (in most cases the processor comes with a cheap stock cooler) You will need a CPU cooler if you want to overclock the processor.
There are plenty of Youtube video that show you how to assemble a PC. If you spend time doing research, then shopping for the right parts you want, you will find the assembly part to be the easiest compared to all the reading that you can do.
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