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How expensive would it be to build a gaming PC
| Your price range seems about right. Also consider getting used parts. I just picked up another 980 for $170 the other day, which is better than the 1060. Haswell CPUs are also dropping a lot in price and are still perfectly fine for gaming. Nowadays when I have to build a budget gaming rig for someone it's usually about $700 (excluding monitor and peripherals) with an i7 4790k, 16gb ram, gtx 980, ssd and other nice extras depending on what I can find at the moment.
| 900 bucks and you get something decent, if you care enough to spend time searching for the best build.
Good games won't require such a high-end computer anyway. But who am I kidding, you won't play good games on it.
| Yeah for 1k you can do some beefy setups tbh
| I know from experience that most people who buy overly expensive computers (ie over 1k$) play bad games on it (but that require too much power).
But computers more expensive than 1k are only useful for video editing, 3D animation and the like, anyway.
| >>423957 Can confirm the video editing and animation part. You have a death wish if you try to render anything without at least 8GB of RAM and Intel 7.
| very
| >>423957
Yeah okay, that's fair. I was just checking out laptops and the ones with the setup I mentioned in the first post are around 1.5-1.8k, so I was thinking I might get a desktop PC under 1.5k or ideally under 1k even if I do build completely from scratch. Plus, upgrade potential.
As for games, yeah, I mostly want to play MHW, some current/next gen weeb shit and maaaybe Destiny 3 when that comes out, so I kinda need some decent power.
| 600 bucks for gaming rig quite good already, you can use second hand parts on things like CPU, Motherboard, RAM, or GPU. Don't buy second hand storage tho.
| >>5f14a8
I7 is over kill for gaming, but yeah those stuff actually are 1k in total usually. Kinda strange to pair I7 gen 8 with 1060. Would've been better buying entry level gpu so you could save for rtx 2070 or something.
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Yeaaah honestly I don't know all that much about this stuff, but it's what the stores shill around here. And I'm kinda wary about using second hand parts since here it's generally pretty crappy from what I've heard.
So what kinda GPU can you recommend so I could play the games mentioned above? Will a gtx 980 be enough?
Captcha: bola this march. Huh.
| Just bought a 2700x with a rx580, tridentz 32 gig for1k
| I want to upgrade my rig desperately but at the same time I dont want to pop off before we k ow the spec standards for the PS5/XBONE2 generation... Because I will need to make sure its powerful enough to be better than those and handle console ports and pull its weight for the full generation
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| I have something with an 8th gen Core i7, geforce gtx 1060, 16 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD and 256 GB SDD in mind. It also will be built from scratch, so I'll need literally everything else. Can it be done in under $1-1.5k?