Buying a New Desktop

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Luxezel wrote on 2013-11-24 00:41

With Black Friday/Cyber Monday coming up soon, I've decided to get myself a new desktop since my current one is about a decade old.

There's already a couple threads like this that I've looked through but I don't know what most of it means and what-not so I decided to make another.

Looking for recommendations for either a prebuilt one or just parts to buy to make one. I'm gonna be using it for a lot of things but I do want to be able to play games and such on it as well.

I'm on a $600 budget (Not much but I could always buy better parts down the line when I have spare cash).

Any input would help. Thanks o 3o~
Second wrote on 2013-11-25 01:35

I took this off tom's hardware.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1pedo
Add another stick of ram for 8gigs.
Ashikoki wrote on 2013-11-25 02:40

If you wait until next year DDR4 will be out~
Aubog007 wrote on 2013-11-25 09:54

Quote from Ashikoki;1172908:
If you wait until next year DDR4 will be out~

That's going to be incredibly pricy and hard to justify the value. Until 2015, i believe it will be a "luxury" item.
Not to mention the new motherboard and chipset that is most likely going to be required.
Zunori wrote on 2013-12-03 22:19

[FONT="Tahoma"]If you're looking for a Gaming PC:
http://www.walmart.com/ip/CYBERPOWERPC-Build-Your-Own-Gaming-Desktop-Bundle-Select-Case-Processor-Memory-Hard-Drive-and-more/21621640
It's pretty cheap and the PC's configurations seem pretty good as well.[/FONT]
Compass wrote on 2013-12-04 01:12

Quote from Zunori;1175133:
[FONT="Tahoma"]If you're looking for a Gaming PC:
http://www.walmart.com/ip/CYBERPOWERPC-Build-Your-Own-Gaming-Desktop-Bundle-Select-Case-Processor-Memory-Hard-Drive-and-more/21621640
It's pretty cheap and the PC's configurations seem pretty good as well.[/FONT]

No, not really. It's actually really bad.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2eGOi
There you go.
Ascard wrote on 2013-12-04 17:01

Quote from Compass;1175159:
No, not really. It's actually really bad.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2eGOi
There you go.

Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2GB Video Card

NVIDIA Only plis
Compass wrote on 2013-12-05 00:41

Quote from Ascard;1175260:
Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2GB Video Card

NVIDIA Only plis

There's nothing wrong with AMD cards.
Evaris wrote on 2013-12-07 07:53

Quote from Ascard;1175260:
Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2GB Video Card

NVIDIA Only plis

Why only Nvidia when AMD offers better price/performance, and most of the time better single-card drivers these days. Dual-card configs on the new (new-new) cards are also leagues better than SLI drivers.

Also, black friday and cyber monday were already past when you posted this thread so... not sure if you're still looking, but if you are with that $600 limit;

Case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811147060
PSU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817153172
Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157468
CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113348
GPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161434
RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231550
HDD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148767
ODD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106289
OS: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116986