Building a Gaming PC

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0siris

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Hey guys, new here, came for some advice.

I'm in need of a new PC setup, which will be mostly used for gaming. I would like it to be dependable in the future.

I know very little about computers, so I'de appreciate it if someone could give me pointers; is it worth the cash, how well will it perform, etc. This PC will set me back $2,000 or so.

Here is the part list I came up with.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2Qvgi
OR a tiny bit cheaper...
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2Qwl4

Thanks.
 
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Don't spend $50 on a sound card. You should rather spend those $50 on the motherboard with better onboard sound. No incompatibility issues, same sound quality and drivers on your motherboard manufacturers website.
If you spend the money on the motherboard, you also get better overclocking capabilities and more features.
 
What kind of PC do you have currently?

Any reason you would choose older socket 1155 gear over the current generation 1150 (Haswell)?
 
My current specs are
AMD Athlon(TM) 64X Dual Core Processor 4600+ 2.40 GHz
4.00 GB RAM
Nvidia GeForce 7300 LE
32bit Windows Vista

As for the case, I figured since i'm a total noob at this, more room would be easier to work with. Plus it gets hot where I'm at, so I thought it would help keep it cooler. I was more so going for looks to be honest, lol. I'll try looking for a mid tower that I like. I'm an aesthetics guy :cool:

I couldn't seem to find an i5 4670k on pcpartpicker.

Beers, I'm not sure about the socket 1155 thing.. sorry :s.

Would this be a better setup?
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2RDt5

Also I should probably have said my budget.. I'm not getting this computer anytime real soon, and I've noticed the prices are starting to go down a bit. But I would like to stay under $2,000. The cheaper the better, however I will pay a bit extra for performance.

And if anyone has an idea on how well this setup would run higher end games, I'de appreciate it.
 
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Jiniix said:
Don't spend $50 on a sound card. You should rather spend those $50 on the motherboard with better onboard sound. No incompatibility issues, same sound quality and drivers on your motherboard manufacturers website.
If you spend the money on the motherboard, you also get better overclocking capabilities and more features.
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You aren't going to find a motherboard with better onboard audio, pretty much all motherboards use one of two audio chipsets. There is nothing wrong getting a sound card if that's what's important to you, some people are audiophiles.
 
Gaming PC's are GPU limited, I'd go with whatever you can afford in that department (GTX 770 should be plenty of power). CPU's usually only come into the gaming equation when they are too slow to keep up with a GPU; any mid range CPU would get the job done and an i-5 3570 is quite formidable. Memory and mobo sound fine but bear in mind if you get a mobo like Cisco posted you will need to pick a different CPU because it supports a different socket than the one you chose.
 
aara0123 said:
Gaming PC's are GPU limited, I'd go with whatever you can afford in that department (GTX 770 should be plenty of power). CPU's usually only come into the gaming equation when they are too slow to keep up with a GPU; any mid range CPU would get the job done and an i-5 3570 is quite formidable. Memory and mobo sound fine but bear in mind if you get a mobo like Cisco posted you will need to pick a different CPU because it supports a different socket than the one you chose.
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Yeah, I wondered why I couldn't find it on the parts list, I had the compatibility option ON..
In terms on power for the GTX 770 - does anyone have an idea of its performance? Would it be able to run high end games on max settings, what types of FPS would I be getting, etc? Thanks.
 
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