Hello Chaps,
I've been gaming, online mostly since 97, but I've never had a decent set-up. I've not even had a PC for a year, as mine all broke and are about 10 years old!
So I have saved about 1500 quid, and promised myself I would take on this project to build the best gaming PC money could buy right now, and for once not be last to load the map on BF2 every single time.
I have a rough ideal of what I want, but as i'm building it with component up, i'm crapping it a bit incase I Xmatch gear and have a few querstions.
What OS is best, 7 or 8? Ive seen 8 and I dont like it, seems patronizing, but will i just have to accept this is the best when it comes to the future?
It seems to be the Chip i'm struggling most with, I think I want an I5 or maybe an I7, but not sure how that impacts the Mobo and Card. I dont think I really need anything overclocked, that word scares me and I think a factory standrad would suffice, and what is the main diff with Haswell and Ivybridge... God the deeper I go... I just dont want to end up buying a Card or Chip to then be told oh my god, why did you do that?! You wanted x or y lol!
I just want to buy all the stuff from one place, from the UK and be able to speak to people if I have problem or advice needed, I dont want to pull gear in from here there and everywhere and endup waiting weeks for it, So I have come here to you guys =)
It would be nice to have a good audio card or something, I plan to play all my music play DVD/WActh films in HD,
I also need to invest in new screen, so budgent is for that too, definatly a big screen, but not so big its hard to game on, maybe 24' im not sure.
I want not to scrimp on PSU or Case and other essential accessories, cables etc. I like quite PCs,
Also do overclockers supply the gear and do build service too? I'm just wondering how much they charge if they do.
Ok thats it, over to you guys who know the answers I hope, Its a lot of money ill spend for me, I want to make sure Im getting a decent Setup.
Also I need, mouse keyboard,gonna buy a new headset too and a new flight stick lol! Still Saitek?
OK, cheers for your help, sorry to babble, I was hoping to buy this and have it done working within 2 weeks
Thanks for your help =) Zoobee
I've been gaming, online mostly since 97, but I've never had a decent set-up. I've not even had a PC for a year, as mine all broke and are about 10 years old!
So I have saved about 1500 quid, and promised myself I would take on this project to build the best gaming PC money could buy right now, and for once not be last to load the map on BF2 every single time.
I have a rough ideal of what I want, but as i'm building it with component up, i'm crapping it a bit incase I Xmatch gear and have a few querstions.
What OS is best, 7 or 8? Ive seen 8 and I dont like it, seems patronizing, but will i just have to accept this is the best when it comes to the future?
It seems to be the Chip i'm struggling most with, I think I want an I5 or maybe an I7, but not sure how that impacts the Mobo and Card. I dont think I really need anything overclocked, that word scares me and I think a factory standrad would suffice, and what is the main diff with Haswell and Ivybridge... God the deeper I go... I just dont want to end up buying a Card or Chip to then be told oh my god, why did you do that?! You wanted x or y lol!
I just want to buy all the stuff from one place, from the UK and be able to speak to people if I have problem or advice needed, I dont want to pull gear in from here there and everywhere and endup waiting weeks for it, So I have come here to you guys =)
It would be nice to have a good audio card or something, I plan to play all my music play DVD/WActh films in HD,
I also need to invest in new screen, so budgent is for that too, definatly a big screen, but not so big its hard to game on, maybe 24' im not sure.
I want not to scrimp on PSU or Case and other essential accessories, cables etc. I like quite PCs,
Also do overclockers supply the gear and do build service too? I'm just wondering how much they charge if they do.
Ok thats it, over to you guys who know the answers I hope, Its a lot of money ill spend for me, I want to make sure Im getting a decent Setup.
Also I need, mouse keyboard,gonna buy a new headset too and a new flight stick lol! Still Saitek?
OK, cheers for your help, sorry to babble, I was hoping to buy this and have it done working within 2 weeks
Thanks for your help =) Zoobee
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