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- Joined
- 8 Jul 2010
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Hello all,
I was recommended here by a friend who said you're renowned for being incredibly helpful when looking to buy a new computer. I haven't built a computer in about six years and have fallen a little behind on what's the latest greatest pieces of kit to have in a relatively modestly budgeted machine. I'd love to be able to play recent games and whatnot at relatively high standards, I'm not thinking oily slick Crysis standard, just being able to get through L4D2 and Mass Effect 2 without any major hiccups. I reckon that a grand should be enough to cover that but I'm also rather a keen musician and would love to be able to have a recording set up on my rig as well. I've got various digital input devices and all the necessary software, but I thought I'd best include that in case I needed a sound card or anything? I know that motherboards these days seem to have perfectly good on board sound, but just in case it would make any difference to the overall quality of the machine or sound input.
But yes, I was looking at the various bundle deals and was told that it would be a lot cheaper to build it myself, I've got some friends I can call on to help me with this so I thought, why not? Unfortunately I then realised that I didn't really know where to start so came here seeking some advice
If at all possible it'd be nice if the £1000 (got about £200 extra if entirely necessary
) could include a monitor/keyboard/windows 7 and all that kind of jazz but if that's not possible then that's fine. Is £1000 going to be enough to build me a decent gaming PC including all of this or am I going to have to dip into savings?
Thanks very much guys, any help you can give would be thoroughly appreciated.
I was recommended here by a friend who said you're renowned for being incredibly helpful when looking to buy a new computer. I haven't built a computer in about six years and have fallen a little behind on what's the latest greatest pieces of kit to have in a relatively modestly budgeted machine. I'd love to be able to play recent games and whatnot at relatively high standards, I'm not thinking oily slick Crysis standard, just being able to get through L4D2 and Mass Effect 2 without any major hiccups. I reckon that a grand should be enough to cover that but I'm also rather a keen musician and would love to be able to have a recording set up on my rig as well. I've got various digital input devices and all the necessary software, but I thought I'd best include that in case I needed a sound card or anything? I know that motherboards these days seem to have perfectly good on board sound, but just in case it would make any difference to the overall quality of the machine or sound input.
But yes, I was looking at the various bundle deals and was told that it would be a lot cheaper to build it myself, I've got some friends I can call on to help me with this so I thought, why not? Unfortunately I then realised that I didn't really know where to start so came here seeking some advice
If at all possible it'd be nice if the £1000 (got about £200 extra if entirely necessary
) could include a monitor/keyboard/windows 7 and all that kind of jazz but if that's not possible then that's fine. Is £1000 going to be enough to build me a decent gaming PC including all of this or am I going to have to dip into savings? Thanks very much guys, any help you can give would be thoroughly appreciated.
