Need help with gaming PC purchase

Hi everyone, I have recently decided to abandon console gaming and venture into the realm of PC gaming and frankly, I am mostly ignorant as to many of the specifics tied to getting a gaming PC. I am looking at getting an entry level set up and looking to spend between 1000 and 1500 US Dollars. I've read some good things about iBuyPower's Revolt and was looking at the A960 version but on their website they have so many options to customize it and I don't know where I should definitely upgrade or even where it's appropriate to downgrade to save some money. Any help, suggestions, or alternative computers I should look at would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Nate

lordnate5 said:

Hi everyone, I have recently decided to abandon console gaming and venture into the realm of PC gaming and frankly, I am mostly ignorant as to many of the specifics tied to getting a gaming PC. I am looking at getting an entry level set up and looking to spend between 1000 and 1500 US Dollars. I've read some good things about iBuyPower's Revolt and was looking at the A960 version but on their website they have so many options to customize it and I don't know where I should definitely upgrade or even where it's appropriate to downgrade to save some money. Any help, suggestions, or alternative computers I should look at would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Nate

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Hi!

Naah! The revolt case seems like a real dust collector with all that mesh. Besides, it looks a bit narrow if you want to get a bigger cpu cooler in the future. And the case, fan cooling ability might be pretty on the low side. I think this is a better option then:

"The fall X99 Special"

Corsair Graphite Series 230T case.
With the listed hardware for 1569 USD then. It's 69 bucks over your budget but well worth that extra cost. You might get the price down a little bit by choosing 8 gigabyte of 1600 Mhz DDR 3 RAM instead. The performance difference are small between this RAM speed and the higher ones. You wont notice it in day to day computing and gaming.

A bigger quality case with at least 120 mm case fans will make it future proof when it comes to upgrades later on. The bigger fans, the more quiet they will be as they often are low rpm. But will still cool well.

Do you have any friends or family members who can build you one? For your budget you can build a great system if you buy it in parts and save money as you do so.

This community has a number of regular contributors who can help you in picking the right hardware.

Pick quality PC hardware and have it built or build it yourself. Go to NCIX dot com and they'll only charge you $50 extra to build the PC for you.