08-04-2016, 09:45 PM
I always tell people a computer is an investment. I usually spend about 120$ on a power supply, this will ensure your components are adequately fed, if your paying your own power bill gold+ standard is a must. This power supply should be usable for many years across rigs. I also tell people to buy a mostly metal full tower case. HafX or so is a good case, easy to work with, tones of room for ease of access and it will keep your components cool and increase their life expectancy this will be about 150$ and can be used across rigs. DDR4 is a new ram standard so I would invest in a intel board right now, amd zen is coming soon though, your ram can be used probably in your next build. Optical drives and such are re usable as well. The point I make is once you get to it its a good idea to invest into your first rig, when you go for an upgrade often times the only component you need to replace is JUST the graphics card. This saves you money long term, worst case scenario you replace the motherboard/cpu but realistically a GOOD cpu will practically never be your bottleneck. Unless your video editing, running complex or long math simulations or something. I would also invest into a M.2 SSD samsung 950 pro's are awesome!
I built the pc im on in 2009, I got a german made cherry switched mechanical keyboard that could be used as a weapon in a pinch, klipsch speakers, overclocked I7 first gen 920 that is @ 4.2 opposed to factory 2.67 everything runs on an Seasonic 1200 watt (overkill) PSU. Im telling you this so you can get my point. And running my rig against benchmarks of modern processors it still wins 80+% of the time. Buy quality stuff, last you long time, saves money and heartache.
to more directly answer your question, you can build a decent rig for about 800, you can build a rig that will last and have many crossover components for about 1100. You can purchase a premade pc that will have no expansion room and need everything replaced in short order that will play most/all the games you want for maybe 600-700.
realistically the games you mentioned could probably be ran on an APU and you could build the rig dirt cheap, but you will limit your machines capabilities in doing soo. If you go with the 200$ 480 gpu by amd that should get ANYTHING you want done.
if I were you, get a socket 1151 i5
haf x case
850 - 1000 watt (overkill it, psu's run more efficienty around 50% load) not to mention the power is there when needed. corsair or seasonic are my go to's for my personal rigs
1151 socket board with M.2
32 gigs ddr 4 ram
samsung 950 m.2 256g primary drive
2-4tb secondary (these are good to raid 1 or 0 or 1+0 depending)
a couple optical drives to read and burn at the same time
arctic silver 5 thermal compound is a standard but many new ones are out that are "better"
amd 480 or if your willing to shell a bit more out I preffer NVidea due to drivers, amd stuff is also causes mobos to shut off drawing too much power from them opposed to directly from the psu.
go with the 1060.
good namebrands to look for
Asus, Gigabyte, Corsair, Samsung, Seasonic, GSkill, Intel <--quality stuff usually
it was long opinionated etc, but hope it gives you an idea
it was also incomplete but perhaps pushes you into the right direction
I built the pc im on in 2009, I got a german made cherry switched mechanical keyboard that could be used as a weapon in a pinch, klipsch speakers, overclocked I7 first gen 920 that is @ 4.2 opposed to factory 2.67 everything runs on an Seasonic 1200 watt (overkill) PSU. Im telling you this so you can get my point. And running my rig against benchmarks of modern processors it still wins 80+% of the time. Buy quality stuff, last you long time, saves money and heartache.
to more directly answer your question, you can build a decent rig for about 800, you can build a rig that will last and have many crossover components for about 1100. You can purchase a premade pc that will have no expansion room and need everything replaced in short order that will play most/all the games you want for maybe 600-700.
realistically the games you mentioned could probably be ran on an APU and you could build the rig dirt cheap, but you will limit your machines capabilities in doing soo. If you go with the 200$ 480 gpu by amd that should get ANYTHING you want done.
if I were you, get a socket 1151 i5
haf x case
850 - 1000 watt (overkill it, psu's run more efficienty around 50% load) not to mention the power is there when needed. corsair or seasonic are my go to's for my personal rigs
1151 socket board with M.2
32 gigs ddr 4 ram
samsung 950 m.2 256g primary drive
2-4tb secondary (these are good to raid 1 or 0 or 1+0 depending)
a couple optical drives to read and burn at the same time
arctic silver 5 thermal compound is a standard but many new ones are out that are "better"
amd 480 or if your willing to shell a bit more out I preffer NVidea due to drivers, amd stuff is also causes mobos to shut off drawing too much power from them opposed to directly from the psu.
go with the 1060.
good namebrands to look for
Asus, Gigabyte, Corsair, Samsung, Seasonic, GSkill, Intel <--quality stuff usually
it was long opinionated etc, but hope it gives you an idea
it was also incomplete but perhaps pushes you into the right direction
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