Greetings all, as the title states im looking to build a computer. I currently play all my games on my gaming laptop. Now, my gaming laptop is up to date and very nice, but I enjoy the desktop expierience when I'm at home. I actively play pretty easily ran games i.e. World Of Warcraft, HoN, LoL I'm looking to build a computer desktop that can run all of these at full ultra graphices, and optimum speed, for the cheapest price possible. I figured I would post here just because it seems like most of you in this wide community are very good with technology. My budget is from 400-600 dollars, but the best bang for your buck is what I'm looking for. Thanks again for the help guys, And Best of luck fellow botters!
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heres some things you need to look at, stuff like Do you need a monitor? Keyboard? mouse? Speakers? all this is going to take away from what you can invest in your pc. specially depending on the size of the monitor you want, if its 3d compatible, and its resolution. all in all if you dont wanna go cheap and get a decent one, expect at least $200 if not more on your monitor. so that would drop your budget to $400 on a pc itself. what id then suggest is spend more on your monitor, and get a nice one that your going to be able to live with thats going to last. spend less on your ram 4gb should be enough to start, and go up to 8gb later. same with hard drives, upgrade to an SSD later. screw optical drives, or upgrade to a bluray later. maybe dont go with something so top of the line, get a good AMD board with a recent socket, but make sure its compatible with the latest piledriver CPU's, and go with a last gen E series, or A series thats compatible, so you dont have to buy a GPU right away, but then later upgrade to dedicated card. i have an A6 cpu in my laptop, and it can run TF2, and most games in 720p without much issue. so an A10 would probably hold you over well, until you can invest $200 on a card. that way too, if you wanted to upgrade to an 8 core piledriver CPU a year or two from now, you can keep the board, and your ram, and just upgrade the chip. since its all AM3, for the last 3 generations as long as your motherboard supports it you can stick in a cpu like a Athlon X4, from 2 gens ago, and still have good cpu performance on the cheap. but stick with an APU since you get a free decent graphics card that will get you by, and give you extra performance later. a video talking about AMD's Piledriver. [video=youtube;vzkUvkXfGKw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzkUvkXfGKw&feature=g-u-u[/video]
I meant to link this as well: CurrentLogicalPCBuyingGuide :: Guide.png picture by The_FalconO6 - Photobucket You don't have to follow it exactly but it's a a tiered list of PC parts according to budget (the column on the right). AMD does have some pretty good budget options however intel is usually recommended at pretty much every price point in terms of price to performance according to Tom's Hardware (Best Gaming CPUs For The Money: October 2012 : Best Gaming CPUs For The Money, October Updates). I believe one of the AMD FX chips sneaks in there on the lower end budget wise. Unfortunately you might have a hard time future proofing (meaning leaving it easily upgrade-able in the near future) a system with such a low budget. If you can afford to spend closer to the $600 on JUST the system alone (not including the peripherals and such that CodenameG mentioned) Then you would be in excellent shape and be looking at a rig to last you a while. I almost recommend saving until you can afford that if you can't now. EDIT: I forgot about the new AMD trinity APU's which are essentially processors with a more hefty GPU built in. CodenameG mentioned these above. For a budget system I'd definitely look into them as you can run games like WoW/LoL on these systems with pretty solid graphics. I would give more information but I'm a little behind on hardware news at the moment. If you can give me a more exact budget I can put together a part list for you.
