Building badass gaming rig, need help

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drew666

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Ok, i just came into quitw a bit of money and wanting to build an awesome gaming rig. I already have a master cooler elite 430 mid tower case (with 1 intake fan in the front and one going out in the top back), windows 7 ultimate and a 26' hd screen. And my limit is 1000 bucks.... any pointers on psu, mobo, ram, graphics card, sound card, wifi card, and processor? (prefurbly intel)
 
so windows 8 then? cause if do all the homework on it tonight while im at work, im going to be ordering everything tomorrow afternoon
 
Yeah. The build I reccomended is very beasty for gaming, and Windows 8 is a good OS. Pirating is a bad idea, way more trouble then it's worth. Microsoft will disable your OS if they see its a pirated copy.
 
awesome, at least i got a second opinion..... I shall be ordering all the parts some time later this afternoon.....then to get crysis and skyrim :D
 
i will recommend you buy all your stuff at fry's electronics or go online at www.frys.com and the place has everything of electronics first you want to buy your case the cases i like is usually is the XION Gaming system cases. Then for your cpu i just recommend you to get the newest intel. by the way you want to buy a motherboard with 4 ram slots and buy 4 8gb ram sticks and that will make you have 32gb of ram on your computer. and for a hard drive Western Digital are the longest lasting hard drives they will not break for 15 years or longer. and for your graphics card if you want a really good graphics card but cheep i recommend Gigabyte GeForce GT 620 DDR3. And for an audio card i would just choose intel but if your really care about audio cards for the greatest sound just buy the cheapest but greatest. and for a cooling fan i would just get a cool looking fan with lights on it. And for cd drive i would get a Toshiba blu-ray rw drive that would be black i recommend for the color to match with a gaming system because they are usally black. But this is a option when you build your computer but when you buy a floppy disk drive i would recommend getting a Toshiba floppy disk drive. last your want to get for you computer is a mouse and a keyboard and for those i recommend Microsoft or Logitech. and for a monitor it is just your choice i would just get a big LCD screen.
 
Fireguns said:
i will recommend you buy all your stuff at fry's electronics or go online at www.frys.com and the place has everything of electronics first you want to buy your case the cases i like is usually is the XION Gaming system cases. Then for your cpu i just recommend you to get the newest intel. by the way you want to buy a motherboard with 4 ram slots and buy 4 8gb ram sticks and that will make you have 32gb of ram on your computer. and for a hard drive Western Digital are the longest lasting hard drives they will not break for 15 years or longer. and for your graphics card if you want a really good graphics card but cheep i recommend Gigabyte GeForce GT 620 DDR3. And for an audio card i would just choose intel but if your really care about audio cards for the greatest sound just buy the cheapest but greatest. and for a cooling fan i would just get a cool looking fan with lights on it. And for cd drive i would get a Toshiba blu-ray rw drive that would be black i recommend for the color to match with a gaming system because they are usally black. But this is a option when you build your computer but when you buy a floppy disk drive i would recommend getting a Toshiba floppy disk drive. last your want to get for you computer is a mouse and a keyboard and for those i recommend Microsoft or Logitech. and for a monitor it is just your choice i would just get a big LCD screen.
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With respect, please don't follow anything in this quote.
 
Fireguns said:
i will recommend you buy all your stuff at fry's electronics or go online at www.frys.com and the place has everything of electronics first you want to buy your case the cases i like is usually is the XION Gaming system cases. Then for your cpu i just recommend you to get the newest intel. by the way you want to buy a motherboard with 4 ram slots and buy 4 8gb ram sticks and that will make you have 32gb of ram on your computer. and for a hard drive Western Digital are the longest lasting hard drives they will not break for 15 years or longer. and for your graphics card if you want a really good graphics card but cheep i recommend Gigabyte GeForce GT 620 DDR3. And for an audio card i would just choose intel but if your really care about audio cards for the greatest sound just buy the cheapest but greatest. and for a cooling fan i would just get a cool looking fan with lights on it. And for cd drive i would get a Toshiba blu-ray rw drive that would be black i recommend for the color to match with a gaming system because they are usally black. But this is a option when you build your computer but when you buy a floppy disk drive i would recommend getting a Toshiba floppy disk drive. last your want to get for you computer is a mouse and a keyboard and for those i recommend Microsoft or Logitech. and for a monitor it is just your choice i would just get a big LCD screen.
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Sorry but the GT 620 is actually a pretty rubbish card and 32GB of RAM is serious overkill. It's very unbalanced which means performance is going to massively drop.

Who needs floppy disk drives in 2013? Anybody? ;) Most motherboards don't even support floppy disk drives and IDE drives anymore anyway.

I really don't want to sound horrible or like I'm a 'know it all', but most of the advice there isn't great, sorry. :(

@drew666, the Elite 430 is a very cheap case. I'd honestly get something better rather than waste your time modifying what is quite a bad case. Can't remember what PC Unicorn recommend but probably something pretty good. Go down that route instead. :good:

Edit: just seen he recommend the 300R. The 300R is a great case for the money and I highly recommend it too. Buy it and forget about 430. Thank us later. ;)
 
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sorry that was my friends advice i usually stick in the os section or software i may know how to build a computer but i don't know what are the best stuff so told my friend to help me then the idea of the 32gb ram was mine but everything else was his. sorry if he gave you wrong advice.
 
Newegg.com is probably a better shop. Not being an American or a Canadian, I've never shopped there, but when I do builds for Americans and Canadians (which is quite frequently ;) ) I use that site. :)
 
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