Building a new computer

[BeerParticipant 11832]

Hello Gents…I’m looking to put together a new PC for myself…but I’m pretty much f~~~ing clueless as to what I should buy…I really haven’t kept up with the technologies over the years, and the one I’m using now is almost 8 years old and I think my graphics card is having issues…so its time for an upgrade! The goal is to put together the best PC I can for about 1,000 dollars, and I plan on buying all my parts of newegg.com as I’ve used them in the past and was happy with them.

Basically…I’m pretty sure I’ll be running windows 10 Home 64 bit and I plan on going with two SSDs for hard drives…one for just my OS and one for everything else. Other than that though I’m really clueless at the moment as I haven’t looked at computer parts at all since I put this one together. If any of you computer guys could throw together a part list for me off newegg or at least throw out some specs I should be looking for, it would be appreciated. Thanks!

[AutoliteParticipant]

Beer wrote:

If any of you computer guys could throw together a part list for me off newegg or at least throw out some specs I should be looking for, it would be appreciated. Thanks!

Isn’t this like asking “what type of car should I buy”???

[Freeman_KParticipant 3524]

I would also like to hear opinions on 1000 build. My idea was to build around Intel I5 processor but now new AMD released ryzen and need to research if this changes the game.

Other than that ram, hd, ssd, pretty standard, good graphical card and i would really love to find a good alternative to Win10 trojan horse software. Would stay with 7 but they are only supporting it until 2019.

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[ShineParticipant 1696]

I usually start at a reputable guide for upto date info.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-pc-builds,4390.html#p2

I’m also not afraid of 2nd hand or refurbished, although I have had grapics card failures buying 2nd hand, but this just forced an upgrade and a better PC gaming experience.

I try to squeeze 5-8 years out of a PC between upgrades.

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[ShineParticipant 1696]

Beer wrote:

I’m pretty sure I’ll be running windows 10 Home 64 bit and I plan on going with two SSDs for hard drives…one for just my OS and one for everything else

SSD’s are good for hard drive intense applications. So windows defiantly, if you do alot of photo or video editing stick these programs and files on the SSD, but only use 80-85% of the total drive space.

A HDD is fine for storing games, movies, music, and photos that have been edited. Bulk media storage. Again don’t fill it up past 85% as performance will decrease.

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[Sam RavenParticipant 181]

I would suggest as much as possible SSDs all the way. If you can afford or find a 1 GB SSD, great. Today’s HDD platters have bad endurance and often give out after about 3 years by their physical design and vulnerability to shocks and wear and tear.

RAM types, CPU, Graphics card all depend on the motherboard and size of your PC casing. Be sure to go to a computer shop you can trust and ask permission to see the size of the components and how they all fit together, how long they are, etc. Some GPUs cannot fit in certain motherboard and PC case size. Certain motherboards will not allow for more than 1 GPU.

Power Supply Units (PSU) and the amount of cabling they have is also important. A minimum 750 watt PSU is recommended just in case you want to expand in future. The PSU will not consume that much unless you use it for graphic intense applications. Some PSU’s have the option of cables plugged to the PSU rather than permanently fixed, get those.

If you have been with a computer that’s 8 years old you are probably not that much of a gaming enthusiast, a mid-range PC would be good enough. 64 bit Windows 10 OS requirements for RAM is 4 GB, add at least 8 GB memory to play safe for applications, especially graphic intensive applications these days.

You might want a DVD drive player. TV sucks anyway and its better to combine all features including watching movies on a PC. Overall you will save money this way.
HD 1080 screens is just overhyped garbage, part of the consumerist agenda. (A minimalist’s opinion) If you are replacing your monitor, get an LCD screen, typically 1600×900 is good enough. LCD screens by design doesn’t have screen burn issues and doesn’t require screen savers.

Great sources for computer parts and to source for knowledge: http://www.anandtech.com/ You are eight years behind so you might want to do some catching up.

They will have a list of cards for high end (gamer) and mid-range that demand less power. Computer shops may offer older generation cards at a discount (which will still be a major upgrade).

[KevinStylesParticipant 2580]

For gaming you’ll want quad core, 16 gigs, an SSD for OS/games maybe a regular spindle drive for data and a GTX 1050 GPU or 1060 if you can get it in budget. You’ll want to get a motherboard that has M.2 PCIe SSD card slots goes faster than a SATA type SSD.

Here’s a good article with some ideas to build on
http://www.gamespot.com/gallery/best-cheap-gaming-pc-build/2900-953/

Just building a high end system myself. Also highly recommend newegg, but a customer for over 10 years now. Only thing I don’t like since they went public is they’ve expanded to allow other people to sell stuff through them like amazon so those other resellers don’t necessarily have the same service level as newegg proper. Same with amazon. So just watch that you’re buying stuff on newegg being sold and shipped by newegg.

[Joey AlfioParticipant]

You need to get yourself a ryzen 1700 that is the sweet spot between gaming and content creation.

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[anonymousyamParticipant 4605]

For graphics cards get a GTX 1080 if you can (should run about 500) or if you cannot afford it then head for a GTX 1070.

For ram get at least 16 gigs of it and the kind that supports the motherboard you are buying.

As for processors the new one from AMD looks promising but that is up to you whether you want to use AMD or Intel.

As for power supplies get one that is at least 500 watts and includes a connector for the graphics card (you need additional power outside of the motherboard with the card).

As for buying the case get something that you can easily expand on in the future and something that is easy to work on and gets good ventilation,

When it comes to cooling that is pretty much your choice here whether or not you want liquid or fan cooling.

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