First time father (of twins!) saved for the past year for this. Help me build my gaming PC for $1100 -1200
Hello members of the master race! I've been scrimping and saving for this moment for the past year. This is purely a gaming machine specifically for: Witcher 3, TF2, D3, Civ5, Cities Skyline, and a few other games (whenever they make their way to PC).
Maximum cost is $1350 (I forgot about monitor in title)
Would like to order parts today or tomorrow.
The Tower is the only thing that needs to be built, but I need a monitor and would prefer a wide/large one. I have a newish (1 year old) TV that may work. I have, mouse, keyboard, etc.
I live in Orange County, CA in the US.
WIll be using a DAS keyboard with Logitech gaming mouse.
Had not planned on overclocking unless necessary, though I'm not opposed to it.
The only specific feature would be that it runs my games in glorious 60 fps.
Case preference is any that works and at least don't make my eyes hurt when I look at them. No lights please, I've been down that road and the cold glare of the machine god while I slept is something I don't want to relive.
I have a copy of windows 7 and can probably get a copy of windows 8.1
Like the title says, this is my last hurrah for a while. Help a high school teacher/future father out and let me play the Witcher 3!
Edit: Words...
Posted May 15, 2015, 2:46 PM UTC · edited
Teachers are awesome! Note this uses the MicroCenter right near you! Be sure to get the CPU there!
With this build the only thing you'll have to update in the next five years is storage and the video card. I added an extra fan for a two in, two out balance. I'd go for better storage, like I have, to start with rather than a second monitor to start with.
The case is nice and understated with zero ricer lights.
If you'd prefer a 1100 USD build let me know.
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Dur, fixed this. Read it as you had monitor ready. You have a monitor now, a nice Dell LED IPS!
Thanks for this! We're all done with AP tests so this is my present to me. The big concern is being able to run the Witcher 3. PC gaming subreddits make it seem like you'll need the blood of Christ cooling a super computer to run it at 15fps. Will this build get the job done?
The Witcher 2 was a great looking but demanding game when it came out. It was definitely too much for a single card of its time when it came out. But if the Witcher 3 scales like the Witcher 2, then the 290x will be able to deliver at least max setting Witcher 2 graphics at 60 FPS minimum. And max settings Witcher 2 was damned good looking game.
Your build staying at 1080p helps a lot too. Lots of people are worrying about 1440p now, which is almost twice the pixels of your screen. You should have a very good looking game!
http://i.imgur.com/cNZwXqul.png
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbYlD9qBmAc
Thanks again man! I'll be picking this up/ordering it this weekend. You've made my week!
One question, will you overclock? Really think about it for a second. Take a day to really decide. If you won't I'd spend 50 USD more and get this http://www.microcenter.com/product/432163/Core_i7-4790_36_GHz_1150_Boxed_Processor . That will be better for DX 12 when it hits and is used in a few years.
If you will later, then keep what is in the build now. You can likely get it to 4.5 GHz with work.
Have fun telling your students you have the best machine in the room.