Hello there. I'm in the market for a gaming PC, and my friend said that I ought to build my own. Now i've always wanted to do this, and i'm sure I can, the only difficulty would be choosing the parts, because the choice seems rather otherwhelming and it would be hard to know if I was actually getting a sweet deal.
He then suggested that I make a post on Overclockers UK saying my price, what I need to do, and you'd spec me something. Of course i'd be very grateful if you did, so I shall post said price and whatnot below.
I looked at the HP Firebird as a kind of blueprint, I was attracted by the fact that it apparantly runs almost silent. It also looks rather cool, and of course buying a pre-made PC gets you all the support buisness. Two things though, 1. The support only lasts a year and 2. It's not been made avalible in the UK. D'oh!
See I can't help but feel that if I build my own it's going to be ugly and noisy. I can't be dealing with loads of bling on my computer, coloured lights? Stupid. Crazy alien-esque shapes on the case? Why? So as far as the case is concerned, i'm thinking EITHER ultra nice looking or ultra cheap and boring... Or try to impress me I dunno.
Price range, around £1000? Is that too little? That's where i'm at with money I think.
Graphics power... Well, i'm not gonna want to run Crysis. What am I going to want to run? Hmm... Well i've mostly been a console gamer up to this point so I don't know really. Let's just use Fallout 3 as a benchmark because I love that game. Yes, I won't be playing it again because I already have played it, but it's a place to start. Obviously a bit of planning for future games would be good.
Processor? I dunno, how much are most games reliant on the processor? I might also want to do a little video editing on the computer. Oh oh oh, also, some 3D animation, for this course i'm going to be doing. Yes indeed, should've mentioned that earlier, I guess the rendering would be a little bit TAXING, but I could render them on the university's computers and just model the shizzle at home. Whatever.
Hmm... What else... RAM! Yes, once again i'm not sure how to get the balance right here, so...
Power consumption? As low as possible I guess, but it's no biggy.
Noise? Yes I hate noise. Therefore a quiet cooling system would be better.
Is that enough to go on? Is it too much? Feed my back yo!
And thanks in advance!
He then suggested that I make a post on Overclockers UK saying my price, what I need to do, and you'd spec me something. Of course i'd be very grateful if you did, so I shall post said price and whatnot below.
I looked at the HP Firebird as a kind of blueprint, I was attracted by the fact that it apparantly runs almost silent. It also looks rather cool, and of course buying a pre-made PC gets you all the support buisness. Two things though, 1. The support only lasts a year and 2. It's not been made avalible in the UK. D'oh!
See I can't help but feel that if I build my own it's going to be ugly and noisy. I can't be dealing with loads of bling on my computer, coloured lights? Stupid. Crazy alien-esque shapes on the case? Why? So as far as the case is concerned, i'm thinking EITHER ultra nice looking or ultra cheap and boring... Or try to impress me I dunno.
Price range, around £1000? Is that too little? That's where i'm at with money I think.
Graphics power... Well, i'm not gonna want to run Crysis. What am I going to want to run? Hmm... Well i've mostly been a console gamer up to this point so I don't know really. Let's just use Fallout 3 as a benchmark because I love that game. Yes, I won't be playing it again because I already have played it, but it's a place to start. Obviously a bit of planning for future games would be good.
Processor? I dunno, how much are most games reliant on the processor? I might also want to do a little video editing on the computer. Oh oh oh, also, some 3D animation, for this course i'm going to be doing. Yes indeed, should've mentioned that earlier, I guess the rendering would be a little bit TAXING, but I could render them on the university's computers and just model the shizzle at home. Whatever.
Hmm... What else... RAM! Yes, once again i'm not sure how to get the balance right here, so...
Power consumption? As low as possible I guess, but it's no biggy.
Noise? Yes I hate noise. Therefore a quiet cooling system would be better.
Is that enough to go on? Is it too much? Feed my back yo!
And thanks in advance!
