Building my own for the 1st time

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Dfish1247

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My 6 year old walmart hp died yesterday (burnt spot on motherboard.)

I'm looking to build my own now. My budget is $1400. It'll be the family pc with playing games ( simulators, gta, and racing, those style games.) I'd like to build one that'll do for a few years with being able to upgrade without a full rebuild if possible. I just want my games to not be jerky or otherwise unplayable, fs15 was just plain unplayable on the hp.

I've looked at hardware and am lost, I see all these specs and the smoke comes out of my ears. I've talked to a couple people locally and got gobs of numbers thrown at me and being no better off than I was.

Im looking to order my parts this week or weekend and assemble and have running next week.

It doesnt have to look pretty on the outside and the case will sit beside the tv stand.

The monitor is an 8 year old Sony 46" lcd tv. I use the vga port and am perfectly happy with the picture, I tried the pc on my 1 year old led through the hdmi port and couldn't tell any difference.

Sorry for being long winded, just trying to cover the bases. Thanks in advance
 
Just a sidenote, if you plan on getting the latest video cards, Nvidia's newest GTX 10xx series video cards ditched the analog signal on the DVI port as it's only a DVI-D and not a DVI-I port now. (DVI-I port is the one supports carrying analog signals over the DVI interface. VGA ports are analog)

From what I've read as well, the newer reference design AMD cards are also ditching analog support, but some vendors put them back in and will vary from card to card.
 
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You can get a whole lot more with a $1400 budget. I'll see what I can throw together when I get home from work.
 
Dfish1247 said:
My 6 year old walmart hp died yesterday (burnt spot on motherboard.)

I'm looking to build my own now. My budget is $1400. It'll be the family pc with playing games ( simulators, gta, and racing, those style games.) I'd like to build one that'll do for a few years with being able to upgrade without a full rebuild if possible. I just want my games to not be jerky or otherwise unplayable, fs15 was just plain unplayable on the hp.

I've looked at hardware and am lost, I see all these specs and the smoke comes out of my ears. I've talked to a couple people locally and got gobs of numbers thrown at me and being no better off than I was.

Im looking to order my parts this week or weekend and assemble and have running next week.

It doesnt have to look pretty on the outside and the case will sit beside the tv stand.

The monitor is an 8 year old Sony 46" lcd tv. I use the vga port and am perfectly happy with the picture, I tried the pc on my 1 year old led through the hdmi port and couldn't tell any difference.

Sorry for being long winded, just trying to cover the bases. Thanks in advance
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Hi this has nothing to do with your question,,I have one of my own, but cant find out how to post this, anyone please it is urgent. Ivydale
 
How about the i7-6700 and GA-Z170-HD3 and DDR4-2400 RAM? And thank you ahead of time. Those 3 changes plus a cooler bring it to $1100. If that'll work good for a couple years then add ram if needed plus a graphics card down the road, ill be cool with that.
 
You could go for i7 6700k, then you probably would stay within the platform for the next 5 years.
Also, check out RX480.

If you have HP case initially, that probably be micro-atx case. I don't know if you want to keep with similar size.
 
Get an i5 6600K or an i7 6700K and don't get the GTX 960. It's an old card. Get the RX 480 for similar kind of money or if you can afford it look at the GTX 1070.
 
He should look at the budget Pc guide and look at the $1200 builds. Grab the one with the 6700k and a 1070. You should be around the $1400 mark.
 
If there is a way to hook a 10xx series up to a vga port on my tv, then I'll check it out. My tv does not have dvi or hdmi ports
 
Will the 10xx series run everything in ultra graphics settings while the 970 series would not? I can tell a difference in ultra vs low, but have to look closely to see any difference between mid and high. It doesn't bother me that I might not be able to run ultra graphics, I just want smooth and non jerky. Pretty big $ vs t the 9 series cards.

Thanks for the link.
 
Depends on what resolution you want to play the games in and if you want to run Nvidia's DSR feature to render games at a higher resolution than your monitor and then sampling it back down to your monitor's resolution. That system's suppose to give you more details and anti-aliasing but at the cost of performance.

I'd say go for the 1070 if you can. The 1070 has the performance of the 980ti for the price of around $420 depending on which particular card you want to get.
 
I'll run the resolution as high and clear as possible. I know my tv will be a restriction vs what is available now, and ill use it till it dies. I've checked out the oleds that are out and my lcd looks like a 90s crt, lol.

It's hard to really describe what I want, good performance and good value that I won't have to fool with for a couple years. 3 years from now if I have to run a game at medium graphics but it runs smooth and doesn't jerk, I'll be tickled pink. If I sound picky or argumentative, I'm not, just trying to figure out what makes a $500 part vs a $250 part a better buy.
 
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