Computer Question.

Ghordo · #1 04-11-2010, 05:06 PM

I don't know a ton about computers so I am asking the ones who do here. My taxes came in after paying bills and such I have about 1400 dollars to spend to buy a new gaming rig. Looking to have a solid base with room to upgrade it when need be, if anyone has any idea's or paths they can lead me down it would be a great help.

Thank you for your advice/help.

President · #2 04-11-2010, 05:14 PM

You could put something together pretty nice for under 1,000$ if you wanted to.

I mean I could go through newegg.com and tell you all the shit to buy, but it really depends. I mean... what kind of games are you playing, do you want to max out that 1,400$ or do you wanna go with more reasonably priced items and save a few of that?

Ghordo · #3 04-11-2010, 05:16 PM

I have no ability to build anything by myself =(. I just don't know how, and yes I would like to make the best rig possible for the max amount of 1400 dollars with room to grow meaning it would have the ability to upgrade down the road. In terms of games, I mean atm I play DoW2, Battlefield BC 2, TF2, P1999, but I don't know what games will come up in the future you know ?

President · #4 04-11-2010, 05:22 PM

Ok, well you are being a little confusing, you can't build it yourself but you want to "make the best rig possible."

Are you asking for help putting together the best pre built computer, IE: dell, HP, etc.?

Ghordo · #5 04-11-2010, 05:59 PM

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Ok, well you are being a little confusing, you can't build it yourself but you want to "make the best rig possible."

Are you asking for help putting together the best pre built computer, IE: dell, HP, etc.?

Nah dude more along the lines of newegg, cyberpowerpc, or tigerdirect. I was wondering if anyone knew of a rig on the website that was a good buy etc. thats all man. Yeah, my bad. lol.

PearlJammzz · #6 04-11-2010, 05:47 PM

Putting together your own rig is SUPER easy. The hardest part is picking out the right components. Really you could build a badass rig for ~800 bucks easy. AMD AM3 quad core (this isn't as good at the i7's BUT AMD is planning to put their 6/8/etc cores on this same socket..you won't need to upgrade mobos to get a fatty cpu upgrade in a couple of yrs). ATI has some AWESOME cards. 4870's are dirt cheap, and are awesome cards. The new 5000 series are a pretty solid jump for not much more though.

Once you get the components you'll see that there is only 1 slot they can fit in, and only 1 way. it's SUPER simple. Everything is color coded and such. Installing windows is as easy as clicking next a few times. The overall complexity of it is pretty low. Plus you have a whole board to help you out [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.].

isitatomic · #7 04-11-2010, 06:05 PM

If you are looking to have a fair amount of personal choice in what guts you are putting inside your rig for a reasonable price custom built PC, I would suggest checking out Cyberpower's website. I bought my first PC from them nearly a decade ago to keep up with the steady graphical improvements in EQ and it is still reliable today. I've only been paying attention to affordable laptops recently so I'm not sure about similar companies/choices out there, but this is a decent place to start considering both customization and bang-for-the-buck.

President · #8 04-11-2010, 06:12 PM

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Putting together your own rig is SUPER easy. The hardest part is picking out the right components. Really you could build a badass rig for ~800 bucks easy. AMD AM3 quad core (this isn't as good at the i7's BUT AMD is planning to put their 6/8/etc cores on this same socket..you won't need to upgrade mobos to get a fatty cpu upgrade in a couple of yrs). ATI has some AWESOME cards. 4870's are dirt cheap, and are awesome cards. The new 5000 series are a pretty solid jump for not much more though.

Once you get the components you'll see that there is only 1 slot they can fit in, and only 1 way. it's SUPER simple. Everything is color coded and such. Installing windows is as easy as clicking next a few times. The overall complexity of it is pretty low. Plus you have a whole board to help you out [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.].

Yea... Generally when someone straight up says they aren't comfortable putting together their own PC I leave it at that. IMO, its easy, but not everyone has the "computer" mind. As easy as I think it is, it's also very easy to fuck something up if you don't know what you are doing.

PearlJammzz · #9 04-11-2010, 08:12 PM

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Yea... Generally when someone straight up says they aren't comfortable putting together their own PC I leave it at that. IMO, its easy, but not everyone has the "computer" mind. As easy as I think it is, it's also very easy to fuck something up if you don't know what you are doing.

It's very hard to fuck something up. It only fits in there one way.

Open up your current computer, unplug it, and pull out a few items, and put em back in. You'll see everything clicks right in. If you for sure don't even want to attempt this I have no suggestions on pre-built machines. Only experience I have is with HP 10 years ago, and it was a horrible PC lol. Goodluck [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

President · #10 04-11-2010, 09:53 PM

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It's very hard to fuck something up. It only fits in there one way.

Open up your current computer, unplug it, and pull out a few items, and put em back in. You'll see everything clicks right in. If you for sure don't even want to attempt this I have no suggestions on pre-built machines. Only experience I have is with HP 10 years ago, and it was a horrible PC lol. Goodluck [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I've put more computers together over the past 10 years than I'd even care to count. And during those 10 years I have seen people forget to plug in fans and torch their processors (though most, at least Intel, *should* prevent that now.) I've seen people bend pins on the processor. Seen people forget to plug in their case fans and have their shit overheat. Seen many people not figure out how to plug in their bios speaker, on button, restart button. Seen people not figure out how to install windows because they don't have their boot order done properly. Seen people fuck their hardware up from static. The list goes on and on.

If you brought your grandpa/grandma all the parts to a computer and said here set it up do you think they would be able to? Forget age, go to your local college and I bet 80% of the students there would fail miserably at putting it together.

There are people like us who could probably put a computer together in a pitch black room with 1 hand behind their back and have windows installing in 40 minutes, but I think you overestimate the general public's ability to see computer hardware and not go "what the fuck is that?"