As the title says pretty much. This will be my first build, I only really know the basics of what building a computer would involve so looking for general advice like what proportion of my cash should I be spending on various components, what is essential for a good gaming rig ect ect although builds will be welcome too of course.
Primary focus is gaming, I play team fortress 2 alot. Which I have discovered does not run well on a stock dell laptop.
I am planning to build in maybe 1-2 months, so I have time to think this through fully.
Budget is fairly tight, £400 as absolute max for everything and lower than that is probably better, £300 would be good, I am not looking for insane graphics, more just the ability to run well on average settings.
I do not have a monitor but hopefully will be sorting something out with parents as an early birthday present I have a mouse, but no keyboard. I think I will need to buy windows 7 which cuts another £50 from the budget, I am kinda open to linux but hear its not great for gaming, so would probably prefer windows unless someone puts up a really convincing argument.
Do I need speakers? To be honest I can hold off that buy and use headphones for now, but it would be nice to know
Thanks all, and sorry for the wall of text.
Primary focus is gaming, I play team fortress 2 alot. Which I have discovered does not run well on a stock dell laptop.
I am planning to build in maybe 1-2 months, so I have time to think this through fully.
Budget is fairly tight, £400 as absolute max for everything and lower than that is probably better, £300 would be good, I am not looking for insane graphics, more just the ability to run well on average settings.
I do not have a monitor but hopefully will be sorting something out with parents as an early birthday present I have a mouse, but no keyboard. I think I will need to buy windows 7 which cuts another £50 from the budget, I am kinda open to linux but hear its not great for gaming, so would probably prefer windows unless someone puts up a really convincing argument.
Do I need speakers? To be honest I can hold off that buy and use headphones for now, but it would be nice to know
Thanks all, and sorry for the wall of text.