Hi guys! I'm wondering what kind of pc I can get with a budget of $1400 / 860£.
I want to be able to play games like Battlefield 3, Diablo 3 and WoW on fairly high settings. Im thinking of buying a SSD with it, a 120 GB one. I also want AMD Radeon graphics card like the HD7770, I've heard good things about them, but anything is okay.
I am fairly new in this area, I'm not a pro in computer specs, I know some stuff, but please keep it simple and understandable :)
Any help is appreciated, thanks!
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Anonymous2012-05-13 15:57
Hey man, I wouldn't worry about an SSD, they're expensive and more of a luxury item, maybe try getting two hard drives in a RAID 0 configuration instead, or just one hard drive if you don't like the added risk of RAID 0. For the best gaming experience, try to keep these things in mind: GPU (This is your big gun mostly), CPU (Don't need top of the line or hyper threading, any 4 core with ~2.8 GHz is fine), cooling (decide if you want better cooling for product longevity/overclockability or quiter cooling for a quiter PC), RAM speed (I see so many people get like 16GB RAM, you don't need that much, 6-8 is fine, focus more on getting RAM with a high speed as a gamer, get at least 1600MHz). A SSD will make loading everything fast, and it's worth it for that but really consider if you can live with the price and also the lack of space, if you can, get one!
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Anonymous2012-05-21 17:34
Should use a pentium CPU because of high core speed. Also get at least 2 SSD at 256GB. Don't bother with HDD because they're not compatible with SSD's. You'll also need at least 32GB ran. The HD7770 won't be enough, get a GTX690 instead.
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Anonymous2012-05-22 1:26
Poster 3 is trolling really hard, don't listen to him.
Buy all these parts separately and build yourself:
Get an Intel i5, don't spend extra on the i7 because it won't be beneficial for applications that aren't heavily multithreaded (games aren't).
Get an SSD only if you have money left over, they aren't necessary really. A nice 7200RPM 1TB HDD should be fine.
Get a nice motherboard, look up reviews and spend $120-150. Make sure its compatible with your CPU (LGA 1155 probably), has a couple PCI-E 3.0 slots, USB 3.0, and DDR3 1666 for ram (anything higher than 1666 is unnecessary).
Get a nice power supply, don't skimp. 750 to 1000 watts.
You're looking to spend a lot, so you can at least get a Radeon HD 7850, if not better.
Don't buy a soundcard, you don't need one. They are very unnecessary these days.
I think I've covered just about everything, glgl with your build mate